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I think that the most important theme in the story is the importance of memory. It is the most important because without the memorys all the people in the community can’t do what they want and reach their full potential. She highlights this a lot because of the coulor and how people can’t see coulor, the war so people can’t learn pain etc. I think that it is also it is important because since they can’t have deep feeling they can’t feel for their family. Another reason why importance of memory is important is because they don’t know a lot of stuff and with that they can not be able to take risks and be unique. They all have to be the same person and do thesame thing because they don’t know anything about the past so they have no memory on how to be unique. Jonas has the memorys and now he could be unique and he did do what he wanted he left and did not come back and took Gabe with him. That is why Importance Of Memory is the most important theme in this book

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Chapter 1:
1. It is the ceremonys
2. Breaking the law

Chapter 2:
1.  To be relesed means that you get ingected with something and you die
2. There is birthmothers and they have the children then it is assigned to a family unit.

Chapter 3:
1.
2. It is a shrit that they wear (the boys)

Chapter 4:
1. Because it is part of the job.
2. Yes

Chapter 5:
1. It is a dream
2. They want the community to be sameness so they have to take the pills

Chapter 6:
1.
2. No

Chapter 7
1.Because that is what just happens
2. because that is what just happens

Chapter 8
1. They recive all the memorys that are not sameness and it is old memorys.

Chapter 9
1. A dewlling is where live
2. It never stated

Chapter 10:
1. Becuase the community wants sameness

Chapter 11:
1. He feels the sunburn because it is like he is in the memory

Chapter 12:
1. Because they want a communinty of sameness

Chapter 13:
1. They are not a loud to speak about the job beacuse thay can not know about the memorys

Chapter 14:
1. Yes

Chapter 15:
1. He saw the war and he was starving

Chapter 16:
1. Because thay want the community to have sameness

Chapter 17
1. He was mad because Jans was not playing right

Chapter 18:
1.

Chapter 19:
1.Because they wan the community to have sameness

Chapter 20:
1.Yes

Chapter 21:
1. Yes

Chapter 22:
1.Yes

Chapter 23:
1.
2.

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In this chapter Jonas felt like he was getting closer to the destination. Gabe became cold and weak and Jonas felt like something was going to happen to Gabe.  It started to snow. Joans' memory's started to fade and he tried to remember sunshine and he just got some for gabe. He started to walk up a big hill. He fell and it was hard for him to get back up. He tried to transfer as much warmth to Gabe as possible. Sudenlly he stared to think about his dad, mom, asher, Fiona and Lily. They found a hill and a sled and he got on it with Gabe and almost lost consciousness. He stared to see blue, red etc lights and he remembered the memory of love. He heard music and people signing. "Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo". That was the end of the story

Question:
Does Jonas die?
Does Gabe die?

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The roads were harder now and jonas fell and twisted his ankle but gabe was fine. The planes now stopped. He saw birds, deer, waterfalles etc. They were starting to starve. Now Jonas culd use the word starving. Jonas felt rain for the first time and Jonas cied cause he flet like gabe was dying and he did not care about himself

Was this what they call elsewhere?

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In this chapter Jonas stared his plan but everything fell a part. First he put the chlotes and the bike. The night before Jonas' Dad said that they would be relaseing Gabe. He took his dad bike and Gabe. Before they left Jonas transmited a memory with gabe about an island. The second time Jonas transmitted a memory of Exsauted to gabe. There was a lot of plans searching for him. They could not get the drive because they were late so he had to bike and his legs hurt. He stared to lose color.

Did he lose his coulor because he was far now

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In this chapter Jonas did not want to go home. So the Giver said that he could stay the night. Jonas was being rude for the first time. Jonas and the Giver made a plan for Jonas to leave the town so that everyone could get the memorys. The Giver said that he could not come to Jonas because he needed to help the community when the memory came out. Jonas begged and begged. The name of the 6 that has pale eyes in katherene. The thing about the beyond was that the Giver could hear beyond and he heard music. They went over the plan and what would happend is for the next 2 weeks The giver would give Jonas the best memorys of courage and bravory. In the middle of the night before the Ceremony, Jonas would secretly leave his dwelling. Silently he would take his bicycle to the riverbank and leave it there hidden in bushes with the clothing folded beside it. Then he would make his way through the darkness, on foot, silently, to the Annex. He said that it would take a long time for people to relaize that he was gone. In the early morning, The Giver would order a vehicle and driver. The giver would go to coummunitys a lot so it would not be weird. Jonas would get in the back of the van when the driver was off getting a arrend. He would have with him a bundle of food which The Giver would save from his own meals during the next two weeks. The Ceremony would begin, with all the community there, and by then Jonas and The Giver would be on their way. searchers would be sent out into the community. By the time his bicycle and clothing were found, TheGiver would be returning. Jonas, by then, would be on his own, making his journey Elsewhere. They would do the ceremony of the loss.  With this the comunity would have change. The Giver said he has a dauter and siad that he will go with his dautur Rosemary

Questions
Did Jonas want to leave cause he was mad they lied?

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Jonas in this chapter finds out what to be relased acullay means. He watched his father give a release to a baby. There was twins and they can not have twins in this socitiy so they put a neddle in the forehead and the baby went limp. After that they put the baby in a box and down a shoot. Jonas was so mad at his father.

Question:
1. How can they lie if they are not aloud to

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The giver talked about the pervous reciver and her name was rosemary. He siad he loved her. The giver gave the memory of a child being taken away from a family. She then applied for relase and got it. And then everyone got the bad memory’s

Questions:
Who is Rosemary to The Giver?

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In this chapter there was an unsegulaed holiday and Jonas went to go hang out with his friends but they were playing fake war. Jonas got fake shot and he did not go down like everyone else cause he was thinking about the memory he saw. Asher approched him and Jonas asked them to stop playing and then Asher apologized for the repect he derves and jonas did not say I accept so Asher said it again and he awnser so then he went home.

Why was Asher mad?

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In this chapter Jonas sis not want to come back but he did and The Giver gave him good memorys. Then he got the memorys of grand-parents. It was a memory of love.
Why do they not have grand parents?

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In this chapter The Giver gives the memoey of war and Jonas saw all of it.
Question:
What did that boy see?

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In this chapter The Giver sends Jonas back to the sled hill but this time he gets hurt and he asks for the pills but he forgot he could not have them. He went lipping home and his parents asked what was wrong but he could not tell them. At the end Gabe went into Jonas' room and he cried so Jonas rubbed him on his back but did not relize that he gave Gabe the meomory of a sail boat.
Questions
Do people with pale eyes only get memory's?

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Jonas started to see all the colours but they would not stay. Jonas found that it was not fair that no one could see or keep the coulors. Jonas tried to get Asher to see coulor but he could not. He learned about hunting an elephant to get the tuks. Jonas was trying to give the memory of an elephant for Lily. The Giver was talking about how he can not speak to his formor spouse about he life as The Reciver Of Memory. The Giver was going to give Jonas a memory of pain so they went back to the sled and hill.

Why cant they speak about their job?

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How the author reveals information. From the perspective of the narrator.
First person:
Perspective of one caracters
Looks fors- I me, mine, myself
Third Person - Limited
Narrator can “see” many characters but not everthing
Looks fors - he,she,it,they,them etc
Third Person- Omniscient
Narrator knows all
Look-fors- he, she, it, them, etc

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It is important for people to question their society instead of following blindly

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Without pain, people cannot understand pleasure. We must embrace and learn from pain

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Whithout memory, human beings cannot reach true happiness or learn from their mistakes.

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People must be able to make choices to reach their own destiny

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What is a theme?

What the author is trying to say about people, society, etc.

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In this chapter Jonas starts to see coulors and he did not know that they were coulors until the giver told him so he learned about the coulor red.
Questions:
Why can’t they have colour

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In this chapter Jonas learns about ridding a sled. He goes down the hill and starts and has so much fun. The giver said that also there can be bad memories and what the giver did was sent Jonas into the sun and gave him a sunburn.
Question
Why does he feel the sunburn

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Jonas starts his first day of traninng and he met the old man who told him to call him The Giver. He showed Jonas a memoery for his beginning. He showed him the memory of snow.

Questions:
Why can't everyone have the memorys?

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Jonas' went home and when he was talking to everyone they were acting weird around him. Lilly was excited to begin her volunteer hours at the nurturing centre. He got his rules and read them and was shocked that he could lie and question everyone. He is also off the hook with rudeness.

Questions:
What is a dewelling?
What colour is Jonas' hair

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Jonas was selected
to become the recevier of memeory. He was scared and did not know what to excpect. Everyone was wierd around him.

Questions:
What is a recever of memorey

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Everyone was getting there assignment for the ceremony of the twelves. Asher got Assistant Director Of  Recreation. But when it was Jonas' turn the elder skipped him and everyone was shocked Questions:
Why do the boys have to cut their hair at 7?
Why do they ride bikes at 9?

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Critical Essays What Are Utopias and Dystopias?

The word utopia comes from the Greek words ou, meaning "no" or "not," and topos, meaning "place." Since its original conception, utopia has come to mean a place that we can only dream about, a true paradise. Dystopia, which is the direct opposite of utopia, is a term used to describe a utopian society in which things have gone wrong. Both utopias and dystopias share characteristics of science fiction and fantasy, and both are usually set in a future in which technology has been used to create perfect living conditions. However, once the setting of a utopian or dystopian novel has been established, the focus of the novel is usually not on the technology itself but rather on the psychology and emotions of the characters who live under such conditions.

Although the word utopia was coined in 1516 by Sir Thomas More when he wrote Utopia, writers have written about utopias for centuries, including the biblical Garden of Eden in Genesis and Plato's Republic, about a perfect state ruled by philosopher-kings. More's Utopia protested contemporary English life by describing an ideal political state in a land called Utopia, or Nowhere Land. Other early fictional utopias include various exotic communities in Jonathan Swift's famous Gulliver's Travels (1726).

The idea of utopias continued to be popular during the nineteenth century. For example, English author Samuel Butler wrote Erewhon (1872) ("nowhere" spelled backward) and Erewhon Revisited (1901), and William Morris wrote News From Nowhere (1891). In the United States, people have attempted to create real-life utopias. A few of the places where utopian communities were started include Fruitlands, Massachusetts; Harmony, Pennsylvania; Corning, Iowa; Oneida, New York; and Brook Farm, Massachusetts, founded in 1841 by American transcendentalists. Although the founders of these utopian communities had good intentions, none of the communities flourished as their creators had hoped.

Dystopias are a way in which authors share their concerns about society and humanity. They also serve to warn members of a society to pay attention to the society in which they live and to be aware of how things can go from bad to worse without anyone realizing what has happened. Examples of fictional dystopias include Aldous Huxley's Brave New World (1932), Ray Bradbury's

Fahrenheit 451 (1953), and George Orwell's Animal Farm (1944) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949).

Lois Lowry chose to write The Giver as a dystopian novel because it was the most effective means to communicate her dissatisfaction with the lack of awareness that human beings have about their interdependence with each other, their environment, and their world. She uses the irony of utopian appearances but dystopian realities to provoke her readers to question and value their own freedoms and individual identities.

Jonas' community appears to be a utopia, but, in reality, it is a dystopia. The people seem perfectly content to live in an oli-garchy - a government run by a select few - in which a Community of Elders enforces the rules. In Jonas' community, there is no poverty, starvation, unemployment, lack of housing, or prejudice; everything is perfectly planned to eliminate any problems. However, as the novel progresses and Jonas gains insight into what the people have willingly given up - their freedoms and individual-ities - for the so-called common good of the community, it becomes more and more evident that the community is a bad place in which to live. Readers can relate to the disbelief and horror that Jonas feels when he realizes that his community is a hypocrisy, a society based on false ideals of goodness and conformity. As Jonas comes to understand the importance of memory, freedom, individuality, and even color, he can no longer stand by and watch the people in his community continue to live under such fraudulent pretenses.

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The word utopia comes from the Greek words ou, meaning "no" or "not," and topos, meaning "place." Since its original conception, utopia has come to mean a place

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In this chapter the day for the ceremony's came and lily was very happy but she could not wait until next year to get the bikes. At the end of this chapter it was time for Jonas' cermoney.
Questions
Why do they have to have ceremoneys?
Do they celebrate there birthdays?

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Characters:
Jonas' mom
Jonas
Lily
Gabe
Jonas' dad
Setting:
Jonas' house
What happend:
Jonas' talked to his mom about the dreams witch he had and is mom talked to him about pills he now had to take.

Questions:
What are stirrings?
Why does he have to take the pills?

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Jonas' went to the old peoples home and he met a woman called Larissa. They were talking about the release of a man named Roberto. She said it was a nice ceremony. She also talked about a woman named Edna and how she had been released last week. She said that she was not very smart.

Questions
Why do they bathe the elders?
Do they get to pick there volunter hours?

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Characters:
Jonas, Gabe, lily, Jonas' mom, Jonas' dad
Setting:
In a community
Events:
Jonas and lily met Gabriel and Jonas noticed that him and Gabe had bright eyes and everyone had dark eyes. He also talked about how he stole an apple and noticed something different about it but when he was throwing it with Asher and it cam back it was fine.
Questions:
What does chastise mean?
What is a tunic?

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Jonas and his parents talk about the ceremony of the twelves. Jonas' dad talks about his and so does his dad. Jonas' was very nervous about the ceremony and he was thinking that his friend was not going to get a job because he was silly.

Questions:
What does "to be released" mean?
Does another family have a child and then it is given to another family?

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Characters:
Lily, Jonas, Jonas' mom and dad
Time:
The end of November
- The place seems very strict and perfect
Questions:
What do the twelves, elevens, sixes etc. mean? They are the ceremoneys
What does transgression mean?

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You have to scacrife your rights to have the perfect world

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Utopia:
A community or society possessing desirable or perfect qualities
Examples:
Heaven
Nirvana
Garden Of Eden
Dystopia:
A community or society that is undesirable or frightening
Examples:
Hell