The Giver: Community and Roles

A bird.

Jonas is afraid he and Gabe will starve.

He is starving.

<p>If he stayed, he'd be starving in other ways (emotionally).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Warmth and sunshine; to make Gabe feel happy and warm.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A sled.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No answer...just think.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is against the rules for pilots to fly over the community.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It is a grave insult, as being released is a terrible punishment.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Each family member describes a feeling and explains why he/she had that feeling.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Newchildren are released for not developing properly; elderly people are released in a celebration of their lives; and repeat offenders are released after the third transgression.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Each family unit must have two children: one male and one female.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Answers may include dwelling (house), tunic (shirt), play area (playground), newchild (infant), nurturer (teacher/babysitter), nightclothes (pajamas).</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Every December.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas' father peeked at the Naming list. Jonas was surprised that his father would break a rule.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A newchild is given to the family at the ceremony.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Nines receive a bicycle for the first time.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Receiver is the most important Elder in the community.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They both have pale eyes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Birthmothers receive wonderful food and gentle exercise periods. They play games and amuse themselves for three years. After three years (three births), they become Laborers. They never see their children.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is the subject of an announcement which makes him feel remorse. He apologizes to the Director of Recreation the next morning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The apple changes in some odd way. The shape and size stay the same, but something about the apple changes.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He wants to try to get the apple to change again.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas has spent his volunteer hours at many different places. As a result, he is unsure of where he will be assigned.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They run the bath, help the old people into the tub, wash their bodies, and dry them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No one may glimpse at another person's nakedness. The rule does not apply to newchildren or the Old.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The person's life story is told.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas dreams that he is in a bathing room with Fiona. He has a bare chest. He wants Fiona to take off her clothes and get into the water. Jonas has a strong urge to bathe Fiona.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas' dream is the first sign of 'Stirrings'. Stirrings happen to everyone as they grow up.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>People take pills every morning.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They are sent Elsewhere and never return.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Caleb is a replacement child.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The entire community murmurs the child's name throughout the day. The repetitions get softer and less frequent until the community is silent and the child's name is never uttered again.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The name is repeated for the first time since the loss. It is repeated slowly and softly at first, then faster and with more volume.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Committee of Elders chooses the spouses for the people who apply for them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>After a match has been monitored for three years, couples may apply for a child.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is the leader of the community. A new Chief Elder is elected every ten years.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Instructors of Threes are responsible for the acquisition of language, and Asher often has problems with precision of language.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Small children who misbehave mildly are given a smack on the hands with the discipline wand. For a second offense, children receive three sharp smacks on their bare legs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Assistant Director of Recreation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Caretaker of the Old.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He has been selected as the new Receiver of Memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The committee makes a unanimous choice after carefully observing the candidate. Elders must have no uncertainty about the chosen individual.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Intelligence, integrity, courage, wisdom, and the capacity to see beyond.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He feels different for the first time in his life because he is different. He had grown up being the same as everyone else.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas' parents don't know. She was never seen after the selection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas must go to the Annex every day after school. He must go straight home after each day of training. He may ask any questions of anyone. He cannot talk about his training with anyone. He cannot share his dreams. He may not take medication for work-related illness or injury; he cannot apply for release; and he has permission to lie. He was startled by the exemption from rudeness. He wasn't worried about no dream-telling, although he did wonder a bit how he would deal with the morning ritual. He was unnerved by the restrictions on medication because medicine was so readily available in the community. He had no reaction to the rule about applying for release. The rule about lying is the most shocking. He wonders perhaps everyone else in the community was permitted to lie.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He is worried that everyone else in the community may be lying.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>No one had ever stood to acknowledge Jonas' presence.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The attendant explains that the locks ensure The Receiver's privacy so that he may concentrate. No other doors in the community are locked.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He wears the special clothing that Elders wear. He is wrinkled, and his light eyes are surrounded by dark circles.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He must transmit his memories to Jonas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Receiver tells him that he does not have time for apologies.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas lies down on the bed. The Receiver places his hand on Jonas' bare back.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He perceives cold air, snow, a sled, a hill, and runners.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>When the Receiver transmits memories to Jonas, he no longer has them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sunshine.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Sunburn.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Giver.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He dreams about sledding down the snow covered hill. In the dream, he has the feeling that there is a destination beyond where the sled stopped in the thick snow.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Old are disciplined with a discipline wand as small children are disciplined.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas was seeing red tones in the audience members' skin.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas thinks that, if people had color, they'd also have choices.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas wants to transmit the memory of red to Asher. Because it is rude to touch anyone outside the family, Asher was worried something was wrong.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas sees elephant poachers kill an elephant. He also watches as the surviving elephant grieves for the death.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The memories she had been given were returned to the community.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas has a sledding accident and injures his leg badly.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas feels lonely because he realizes that no one in his family has ever known pain. He can't share the pain with them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He realizes nothing is ever going to change just as nothing has ever changed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>One of the twins.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She is released.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas accidentally transmits a memory to Gabe while patting him on the back and recalling the sailing memory.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A memory of war with carnage and bloodshed.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas learns how it feels to be celebrated and honored as a unique individual.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A Christmas memory of a family.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Family, grandparents, and love.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They tell him it is inappropriate to use a generalized and obsolete word like 'love.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He lies when he says that he understands why it is inappropriate to use the word like 'love.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He thinks it is off-base. Now that he has experienced real feelings, he knows that feelings cannot be told; they are felt.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>War.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Gabe began to walk, which marks the introduction of the discipline wand.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He will weigh them and then take the smaller one, clean him up, make him comfortable, perform the Ceremony of Release, and wave 'bye-bye.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Loneliness, loss, anguish, poverty, hunger, and terror.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>She received five weeks of memories. She experienced loss and loneliness and other negative feelings but no physical pain. One day after training, she hugged and kissed The Giver, and then requested from the Chief Elder.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The memories went back to the people and overwhelmed the community.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The community would receive the memories and would be forced to deal with them.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He watches a recording. All private ceremonies are recorded and stored in the Hall of Closed Records.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The naked children are weighed. The larger child is wrapped and taken away. Jonas' father takes out a syringe and fills it with clear liquid from a bottle. He punctures the smaller child's forehead with the syringe. The child squirms, wails, and goes limp. Jonas' father cleans up the room, puts the body into a small carton, and then places it in a trash chute. As he dumps the body, he says 'Bye-bye, little guy.'</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He seems detached and calm.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Rosemary performed her own release.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The loneliness.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Jonas' company over the past year helps The Giver realize that things must change. His question about falling into the river helps The Giver formulate a plan.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He needs to help the community deal with the memories so they are not thrown into chaos.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Giver will transfer all of his memories of courage and strength. Jonas will leave at midnight, taking an extra set of clothing. He will ride his bicycle to the river and leave the extra clothing in the bushes. Then he will go to The Giver's dwelling. The next morning The Giver will request a vehicle. He will send the driver out on an errand, and Jonas will hide in the storage area. They will drive him out of the community. Jonas will have two weeks' worth of food saved up for the journey. The Giver will arrive at the Ceremony to announce to the community that Jonas' clothing and bicycle were found by the river. The Giver will lead the community in the Ceremony of Loss.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He transmits a memory of a hammock swing on an island.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They slept during the day and rode at night. Jonas searched for water and food at night, too.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The planes use heat sensors to locate people. By transmitting cold memories to Gabe, Jonas can help them avoid detection.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The road is changing; it is narrower and bumpier. There are more trees and a forest by the road. The landscape is unfamiliar. They see things they have never seen before, such as a waterfall and wildlife.</p> Signup and view all the answers