Dystopia or Utopia
An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice, typically one that is totalitarian or post-apocalyptic.
What is dystopia?
A shared physical feature between Jonas, Gabriel, and The Giver.
What are pale eyes?
At this youngest of three groups, individuals begin to wear jackets that fastened down the back to encourage interdependence.
What are Fours?
This ritual held in December, is when individuals are assigned their lifelong occupations.
What is The Ceremony of Twelve?
This character works in the Department of Justice.
Who is Jonas's mother?
This is the antonym of dystopia.
What is utopia?
While playing catch with this object, Jonas recalls how it had changed in mid-air. "Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same ...unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic."
What is an apple?
In this group, Dream-telling begins, as well as the acquisition of correct language.
What are Threes?
Caretaker of the Old is the assignment given to this character and friend of Jonas.
Who is Fiona?
This comfort object is given to Gabriel.
What is a hippo?
created from the Greek prefix “dys” meaning bad, harsh, or wrong and the Greek root “topos” meaning place.
What is Dystopia?
The color of the sled, the apple, and Fiona's hair.
What is red?
This group receives the first sign of independence, the front-buttoned jacket.
Who are the Sevens?
This assignment is described as having very little honor, and consists of "three lazy years, and then hard physical labor until you are old."
The Giver describes these as a little like "looking at yourself looking in a mirror looking at yourself looking in a mirror."
What are grandparents?
The Hunger Games, Divergent, and The Handmaid's Tale are examples of this popular genre.
What is dystopian fiction?
Jonas's mom gives him a pill for the treatment of this.
This item is given to individuals at age Nine, and is described as a "powerful emblem of moving gradually out into the community, away from the protective family unit."
What is a bicycle?
This occupation entails being responsible for all physical and emotional needs of every newchild during its earliest life.
What is a Nurturer?
This important task of childhood is meant to ensure that unintentional lies were never uttered.
What is precision of language?
This author wrote All Summer in a Day, a popular dystopian short story.
Who is Ray Bradbury?
In this time-consuming ceremony, Tens go through this physical change to distinguish themselves from younger children.
What is a change of hair?
At this milestone, an individual's comfort object is taken away and children begin their volunteer hours.
What is Eight?
This group secretly observes and chooses Assignments, and is known to take their responsibility very seriously.
What is the Committee of Elders?
The quality that all Receivers must have described here: "The Receiver must have one more quality, and it is one which I can only name, but not describe. I do not understand it. You members of the community will not understand it, either. Perhaps Jonas will, because the current Receiver has told us that Jonas already has this quality. He calls it____"
What is the Capacity to See Beyond?