Chapters 12-14
The Giver explains to Jonas that everything has the qualities of shape and size, but long ago they also had this quality.
What is color?
What is water?
Who was the previous Receiver of Memories?
Who was Rosemary?
What woodland animal does Jonas see during his escape?
What is a deer?
What possession of Jonas's father does Jonas take and why?
What is his bicycle, because he needed the baby seat on the back for Gabriel?
The Giver gives Jonas a memory that makes him aware that Lily's comfort animal was once a real being. What animal is it?
What is an elephant?
The favorite memory that The Giver shares with Jonas seems to be an image of this.
What is a family together at Christmas?
The decision to release one of the newchild twins was based on this measurement.
What is weight?
Who does Jonas feel he needs to survive for?
What is the baby Gabriel?
What is a child being taken from their parents?
The first memory of extreme pain that The Giver gives to Jonas.
What is a broken leg?
After children have grown but before they go to the House of the Old, members of the community go here.
What is "the house of Childless Adults"?
Before Jonas became the Receiver of Memories, the rules were changed so that the Receiver could not ask for release. Why were the rules changed?
What is so that what happened with Rosemary could not happen again?
What does Jonas think he hears after sledding down the hill?
What is music?
What role did Jonas's father play in the release of the twin?
What is he weighs the babies, injects the lighter one, and then disposes of the deceased infant?
The first memory that Jonas accidentally transmits to Gabriel.
What is a sailboat on a lake?
The word that Jonas' mother tells him is "so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete."
What is love?
The Giver says he can't go with Jonas. Why does he need to stay in the community?
What is...the people will need someone to help them through the shock of the memories that losing Jonas will release?
The Giver tells Jonas there is something he is allowed to do but has never done to Jonas. What is it?
What is "lie to Jonas"?
What made Jonas and Gabriel's journey especially hard?
What is snow/traveling through a snowstorm?
The memory that came to The Giver when the Elders asked him if the community could increase the rate of births.
What is hunger?
The game that the children play on the unscheduled day off disturbs Jonas because they are playing this.
What is war? (good guys vs. bad guys)
The Giver tells Jonas that his ability wasn't to be able to see beyond, it was this.
What is the ability to hear beyond?
In Chapter 23, Jonas talks about a place that "holds their future and their past" and exists outside of the community. What is that place called?
What is Elsewhere?
Describe the disturbing memory Jonas is given about the elephants.
Poachers kill an elephant and take its tusks, then another elephant covers the dead elephant with some leaves.