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PIECEMEAL:
characterized by unsystematic partial measures taken over a period of time.
JAUNTY:
having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner.
FLEETING:
lasting for a very short time.
CRESCENDO:
the loudest point reached in a gradually increasing sound.
ANGUISH:
evere mental or physical pain or suffering.

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Based on the front cover of the novel “The Giver by: Lois Lowry” I believe that it will be about the good and the bad and how one person can change the bad to the good by just giving. For example in class we were learning the difference between the good and that bad settings, also called utopia (the good) and dystopia (the bad). This leads me to think that their society might be in a very bad environment in the beginning but through one's actions and thoughtfulness it can all change. After this one individuelle begins this and followed by everyone joining in, the environment could change into a utopia environnement. This would all happen just because of one's thoughtful action to give to their environment, neighbours and world altogether. This is what I believe this novel is about and why it is called “The Giver”, because one person decided to give which lead to a big change (dystopian environment to an utopian environment).

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PALPABLE:
(of a feeling or atmosphere) so intense as to seem almost tangible
WHEEDLE:
use flattery or coaxing in order to persuade someone to do something or give one something.
DISPOSITION:
a person's inherent qualities of mind and character
TRANSGRESSION:
an act that goes against a law, rule, or code of conduct; an offense.
APPREHENSIVE:
anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen.

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- Jonas was frightened when the aircraft flew over
- It is against the rules to fly that close to the community as that jet was
- When the jet flew close to the community there was an announcement of a speaker that went throuht the community to drop your bikes and go inside
- At dinner there share their feelings that they expirenced throughout that day
- They are almost told how to feel or describe their feelings
- Lily is using big words for only being seven
- Lily and Jonas do not know what acting like an animal is
- They always try to resolve their feelings
- in each family unit there is only permitted; one male child and one female child

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Jonas
boy, an eleven, brother to Lily

Lily
girl, a sevan, Jonas' younger sister

Asher
Jonas' good friend, also an eleven

Jonas' Father
he is a nuturer

Jonas' Mother
she works in the department of justice

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What is will happen in December at the twelve ceremony exactly and why is Jonas worrying about it so much?

What type of society do they live in and do the children understand that they live in that society?

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ADHERENCE:
attachment or commitment to a person, cause, or belief.
APTITUDE:
a natural ability to do something
FRET:
be constantly or visibly worried or anxious.
APPEAL:
make a serious or urgent request, typically to the public.

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- there is a ceremony every year until after you become a tweleve
- everyone birthday is in december because that is when the ceremonies are
- there are 50 in each age group unless a child gets released
- The father broke a small rule and looked at the list of names so he could find the name of the child he has been nuturing in hope that it will enhance his growth
- rules were hard to get changed
- At the tweleve ceremony you get your assignement
- you begin doing volunteer hours when you become an eight
- some children know what they hope their assignement will be but Jonas does not
- after you turn 12 your age is not important
- when you turn eight your comfort object gets taken away

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The elders
some of them take notes of the children to help with the decision of the assignements

Gabriel
he is the child that Jonas' and Lily's father has been nuturing. He also may be released.

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BIKE:
At the nine ceremony you get a bike, but usually before then they have already learnt how to ride one.

HAIR RIBBONS:
All the females in the community are required to be wearing hair ribbons that are perfectly tied in their hair until the nine ceremony.

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CHASTISE:
rebuke or reprimand severely.
CHASTISEMENT:
the act of scolding or punishing someone
LURK:
to wait for someone or somethings secretly or hidden.
BEWILDEREMENT:
a feeling of being perplexed and confused
ADEQUATELY:
to a satisfactory or acceptable extent

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- almost every citizen has dark eyes
- the baby (gabriel) did not get relesed
- his eyes are pale
- Jonas also had pale eyes unlike almost everyone else
- Lily mentioned that maybe Jonas and Gabriel have the same birthmother because they do both have pale eyes that are kind of uncommon
- mirrors are rare but not for bidden
- Jonas is self- conscious of his eyes
- Lily does not know what a hippo is (she giggled at the word)
- LIly said she wanted to be assigned a birthmother
- But her parents talked her out of it
- Jonas was playing catch with and apple with Asher
- He noticed that while playing the apple had changed in mid air
- he loooked at it carefully but nothing was odd about that apple
- It happend four times
- Asher was not seeing this happen
- Jonas took the apple home which is against the rules.

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Are there cameras and speakers all over the community?

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-while reading between the lines I get the feeling that everyone sees black and white. But jonas is different and sees colors (From the apple scene)

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APPLE:
Jonas and Asher were throuwing a perfect apple back and forth while strange things were happening in mid air.

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HASTEN:
be quick to do something
SERENE:
calm, peaceful, and untroubled; tranquil
CONFIDED:
tell someone about a secret or private matter while trusting them not to repeat it to others
SLYLY:
in a cunning and deceitful or manipulative manner
CHORTLED:

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- There is a rule about bragging
- Jonas went to the house of the old to do volunteer because Asher was there
- He was put in the bathing room (Asher and Fiona were in there already)
- Children and adults can only see babies and the olds naked otherwise it would be agianst the rules
- The elders celebrated a release today explained the old women Jonas began to bath
- Before a release of an elder they have a telling of life
- At a life celebration they have; a telling of life, toast anthem, good bye speech, and other have a wishing hime well speech
- The man was thrilled to be released
- no one knows where you go after being released
- they go through a special door to be released
- Children are not allowed at the releases

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Fiona
female, an eleven, Jonas kind of likes her

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What happens when you get "released"? Where do you go after being realsed? Why are some people happy to be released?

Why are children not allowed to be at the releases?

What is their anthem? Is it like ours where it is a song?

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When you get released you are essentially getting killed. They stick a needle in the forhead of babies when they are getting released and they stick a needle in the back of the older children and adults.

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Maybe children are not allowed to be at the releases just to insure that no one will go through the door that the person getting released goes through.

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ROW OF BATHTUBS
When I read that the bathing room was rows of bath tubs it made me make a connection to a store when you are looking at bath tubs to buy. This is because they are usually in rows at the store just like in the bathing room in the story.

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Utopia is a community or society
possessing desirable or perfect
qualities.

example; heaven

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Dystopia is a community or society
that is undesirable or
frightening.

example; hell

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JET:
Jonas was thinking to a time back when he was feeling very frighten when a needle nose jet flew by. Typically people would not be very frightened by a jet like Jonas was.

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lunch = midday meal

pyjamas = night clothes

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DISQUIETING:
inducing feelings of anxiety or worry.

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- It is a morning ritual to tell your dreams for the night be for.
- Jonas rarly had dreams, but he did have on this past night
- It was about Fiona
- After he told his dream that morning his parents then noticed that he had started the Stirrings
- once you begin the Stirrings you must take a pill daily so you forgey your dreams
- if you do not take the pill the dream will come back

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Why do they share their dreams and feeling?

Why is it so important to take your pills for Stirrings?

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SOLEMNLY:
in a formal and dignified manner.
CONGREGATED:
gather into a crowd or mass
DUTIFULLY:
in a conscientious or obedient manner.
MERRIMENT:
gaiety and fun
SUMMONED:
authoritatively or urgently call on (someone) to be present
BUOYANCY:
he ability or tendency to float in water or air or some other fluid.

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- four, fives and sixes wear jackets so they can help dress eachother
- The entire community attends all of the ceremonies
- Gabriel got an additional year of nuturing
- Normally Gabriel would have been released
- When you are released you never come back to the community
- release is not the same as loss
- Lily became an eight
- she got a jacket with pockets so she could begin keeping track of her stuff, and she began her volunteer hours
- you apply to recive a spouse
- Some people from thr community swam across the river to become apart of another community

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Fritz
Jonas' dwelling neighbour, also kind of challenged

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- Maybe Gabriel will get to stay with the family

- Maybe every community is sepparated by a body of water

- If you are not released you become a new life back into the same community

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RUEFULLY:
in a way that expresses sorrow or regret, especially in a wry or humorous manner.

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- Everyoner is given a number at birth
- That number is not used very often
- Jonas is #19, Asher #4, Fiona #18
- The inital speech at the tweleve ceremony; recollection of the time of childhood and the period of preperation, the coming responsablities of adult life, the profound importance of assignement, the seriousness of training to come
- The chief elder is a her
- getting smack what the disapline for the young ones; smack across the hand for minor misbehavoir and 3 sharp smacks to the bare leg for second offence
- They started to call the numbers up one at a time to receive their assignement
- She skipped 19 and wemt from 18 to 20
- everyone noticed that Jonas got skipped
- she continued without addressing her mistake
- Jonas thought he had done something wrong and wanted to disappear

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What does it mean when the chief elder says " thank you for your childhood" to every kid as they left the stage?

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- the elder addressed her mistake
- She began by saying that Jonas has not been assigned anything, he has been selected
- He has been assigned to b ethe next receiver of memory
- This selection was very rare
- The selection has also failed in the pass
- There will be physical pain
- He has all of the qualities for it
- When Jonas was on stage it happened again where he blinked and everything changed; the faces of people looked different

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What will Jonas be doing for this selection? How will he retrieve all of the memories?

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Point of view is how the author reveals to information to the reader though the novel.

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- The authors makes it seam like the character is narrating the book.

- It is in the perspective of that character

Words to identify this point of view;
- I
- Me
- Mine
- Myself

- With this type of view you get to know what that charater is thinking on the inside

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- The reader gets to expirecne the feeling of most of the characters, but NOT all.

Words to identify this point of view;
- He
- She
- It
- They
- Them

There will still be suspense in the novel when the authors uses third person limited

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- The reader/narrators knows everything

Words to identify this point of view;
- He
- She
- It
- They
- Them

When using third person omniscient teh reader can create the full picture, therefore less suspense.

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- The theme is what the author present about people, society, etc..

- Do not confuse with a theme topic; love, family or war.

Self discovery

- The character must be able to make their own decisions to reach their fulfillment

The importance of memory

- The authors personal insparation
(Lois Lowry; her father with memery loss)

- Without memory, humans cannot be truly happy and learn for mistakes

Pleasure and pain

- With no pain people cannot understand pleasure

- We must learn from our pain by embracing it.

Blind obedience

- It is important for people to question their society

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VITAL:
absolutely necessary or important; essential.
HASTILY:with excessive speed or urgency; hurriedly.

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- Jonas felt apartness about his selection
- He also felt hesitation
- There is only one reciever which makes this job incredibly important
- His folder that he got at the ceremony was almost empty
- In his folder there was just a list of rules
- Some of teh rules inclueded
- Jonas is allowed to ask anyone a question and he shall recieve an answer.
- He is no longer is allowed to share his dreams
- Only allowed medication for illness or injury
- Jonas is allowed to lie which is forbidden for everyone else
- It also noted that there will be indesabable pain in his training

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UNPHOLSTERED:
provide (furniture) with a soft, padded covering.
EMBOSSED:
carve, mold, or stamp a design on (a surface) so that it stands out in relief.

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- The name plate on the bikes got changed
- The doors are never usually locked but they are here so no one mistakens the room for something else an dso they can have full concentration
- Jonas has a lot of questions
- He felt bad interupting the giver to ask them
- Jonas did not understand why this job was so important
- JOnas did not there was a whole world, he thought that it was just their community that existed
- Jonas did not know what snow, sleds or downhill are
- JOnas was asked to lay on his stomach on a bed
- Now the giver was to transmit this memory of snow and more to Jonas

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How is Jonas going to remember all of these meories that the giver will transmit to him?

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The Giver also has pale eyes.

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ABRUPTLY:
suddenly and unexpectedly.
or

in a rude or curt manner.

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- The Giver had is hands on Jonas' back
- Jonas began to feel like he was really in the snow on a sled
- Now that Jonas' has this memory the Giver will no longer remeber it
- The giver explained that they no longer have snow because it made everything more difficult
- Jonas wanted the snow back
- Jonas learnt what sunshine was
- The training will get more painful soon
- Jonas felt the feeling of a sunburn for the first time
- Jonas wondered what this mans name was, now that Jonas was the reciever of memory
- He said call me the Giver

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Why do they not have a sun? Is it always light there or dark?

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The Giver mentioned that some of the memories he had were from very very long ago. When he was transmitting the memories to Jonas I realized that these are all things that we have right now. So now I am wondering if this is a futuristic novel.

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SNOW:
Jonas expirenced snow for the first time while on a hill in a memory that the Giver transfered to him. I think that this is important because we have snow now there for this provides evidence twards my prediction.

SUN:
Jonas also expirenced the sun for the fist time through a memory aswell. Along with expirencing the sun he also felt what a sunburn feels like. This also puts evidencce twards my prediction because we have a sun and we aslo expirence sunburns.

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RELINQUISHED:
voluntarily cease to keep or claim; give up.

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-While Jonas was sleeping he had a dream that he was sledding down the hill again just like in the memory
- They also use a disapline wand on the old
- The same thing occured where it looks wierd for a second. This time it was Fionas hair.
- Jonas asked the Giver if he knew what was going on
- Jonas explained that it was not the shape or length changing, it was something else
- The Giver told him that this also happened to him when he was young
- The GIver was pretty sure he knew what is was, but he was going to test first to make sure
- The Giver put Jonas back in the sled and snow memory
- Jonas was told to look at the sled this time because he did not pay attention to it before
- Again that same thing happened with the sled just like the apple and Fionas hair
- The Giver informed Jonas that he was begining to see the color red
- Long ago everything had; color, shape, size
- The giver could presently see all colors
- The reason the faces were changing for Jonas at the ceremony was because flesh has a red tone to it
- There was a time long ago when flesh was many different colors
- Now flesh is all the same red toned color
- Jonas will begin to see what those different colors were once he recieves more memories
- People made the choice of sameness so there was equality
- The Giver was now going to show Jonas what a rainbow was through a memory

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Is it only the recievers of memory who can see colors? Or does color developement come to everyone over time?

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If the Givers eyes are a pale blue colour and so are Jonas' and they have both became the reciever of memory then maybe Gabriel has pale eyes and will become the following reciever of memory

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RED:
The color red is extremely important becuase this was the first color Jonas began to see and it solved a lot of confusion for Jonas. Jonas kept having things change and it was undescribale for him. Ir first began with the apple changing in mid air, the faces of people were changing for him at the ceremony and also Fionas hair changed aswell. This was all because he began to see the color red.

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HUELESS:
of something totally lacking in saturation and therefore having no hue.
SPARSE:
thinly dispersed or scattered
SINUOUS:
having many curves and turns.

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DAUBY:
coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance in a carelessly rough or liberal way.
AGONY:
extreme physical or mental suffering.

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EXPANSE:
an area of something, typically land or sea, presenting a wide continuous surface
GROTESQUELY:
in a comically or repulsively ugly or distorted manner

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- The Giver was in exteme pain, but instead of Jonas going home he wanted to give Jonas some of the pain
- Jonas was put into warfair = people dying, dead horses, and people begging for water

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- Jonas is now seeing all colors in his daily life
- Jonas strongly dislikes that nothing has color to everyone because he wants to be able to make his own choices and not just have everything the same
- The Giver told him that it is just more safe to have sameness
- Jonas attempted to transmit the color red to Asher when they were looking at flowers but it was unsuccessful.
- Jonas learned about guns
- Jonas told Lily that elephants were once alive but she did not believe him.
- Jonas tried to transmit memories to his family
- Why do they have a reciever of memory?; becuae they use them for knowledge when something unfamiliar to assure it is okay
- They lost some of the memories when this failed last time
- Sometimes the Giver would be in pain so Jonas would just leave
- Jonas wondered what is outside of the communities
- Jonas asked the Giver what was causing his pain
- So the Giver told him to lay on the bed and he would show him

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I believe that The Giver will make Jonas crash while doing this again

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- Jonas was very afraid because he had no control
- He hit a bump and was thrown into the air
- When he landed this broke his leg
- He was not allowed any pain relief
- At the end of every training day they always finished with a colored filled memory
- A long time ago the population was so large the hunger was a huge problem
- Gaberiel is still progressing
- Though he is not doing to well at night
- There are identicial twins on the way therefore it is most likely for one of them to get released
- Most  of the time they will release the smaller one
- Jonas asked if Gabriel could sleep in his room tonight
- His father allowed it for one night so him and Mother could have a break
-Gaberiel woke up like usual
- Jonas began to pat his back to put him back to sleep
- But then a memory began to get dimmer for Jonas and he relized that he just gave Gabriel a memory

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Is it only possible for people with pale eyes to recieve the memories? Could the same thing happen if Jonas did that to someone else?

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Another reason why this is futuristic is because right now our world population is huge and world hunger is a huge problem
- If Gabriel recieved the memory so easily then he may become the next reiciever of memory because he has pale eyes and alos there is a good age spread between Jonas and Gaberiel for him to come next

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The reason why I chose to make that background a pale blue color is because I believe it is very important to the book. Most people in the community have dark eyes. Others have a pale blue color of eyes, which are rare. As you read the book you learn that Jonas, Gabriel and the Giver all had these pale blue colored eyes. Therefor I believe that they are the only ones eligible to be the reciever of memory.

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Every year in december you graduate to the next age. This happens at the ceremonies. But when you are graduating to be a twelve it is a bot different. When you gradute to a new age you get something along with it. For example you somtimes get clothing, a new bike and things like that. When you become a tweleve it is a bigger reward then that, you get your assignement which is the job you will have for the rest of your life. One of the reasons why Jonas was worrying about this so much was because he did not know what he hoped his assignement would be or have any idea.

This society is utopian. The children are told what there feelings should be and everything is almost perfect there. Threfore the children feel like this is a perfect life because they dont know what any other type of society would be like.

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There are speakers all over the community but I am not sure about cameras. I know that there are speakers because when the Giver was sending memories to jonas he would turn off the speaker so no one else could hear. There may be cameras becuase when Jonas got pointed out for taking the apple from the recreation area no one saw him but yet he still got called out later that night.

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It is important to take your pills for the Stirrings because you do not want them to come back and if you dont take them regularly or daily then they will come back.

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For Jonas' selection he will be revieving all of the memories from the many past years. For this to happen Jonas lays down and the past reciever of memory toches his back and puts him in that moment to give him that memory. Once the memory has been transfered the Giver looses that memory and then Jonas is the only one who has it.

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Why do they decide to have all of this sameness and equality? Why do they chose to kepp it the way that everyones skin colour is the same, hair colour, and everyone sees in black in white except for those who are different: ie. Jonas, The Giver, Gabriel and Rosemary.

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ANGUISH:

severe mental or physical pain or suffering
BURDEN:
a load, typically a heavy one

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REALM:
a kingdom
EXASPERATION:
a feeling of intense irritation or annoyance

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FALTER:
start to lose strength or momentum

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SELDOM:
not often; rarely

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- Jonas didn't want to  continue with his trainng, he wanted his childhood back.
- Jonas had gotten the memories of; birthday paries, museums, horses and the bond that animals and humains can have.
- The Giver gave Jonas his favourite memory; the feeling Jonas felt while recieving it was family, happiness and warmth.
- The Giver explained to Jonas what grandparents are
- Then the Giver told Jonas that all those feelings he felt were all just feelings of love.
- Jonas wished that his life was lik ethe memory because he enjoyed the feeling of love.
- Later that night Jonas asked his father if he loved him, his father replied with precision of language please.
- Jonas lied to his parents for the first time
- Gabriel was growing rapiidly at their dwelling
- The new plan for Gabriel is to name him and give him a family in december.
- But when Gabe went back to the nurtering center he wasn't doing as well as he was back at the dwelling.
- Joans had been giving Gabriel some of the memories.
- The next morning Jonas did not take his pill.

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Is everyone able to recieve memories as Gabriel has been recieving them easily?

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HANUKKAH CANDLE:
When the Giver was giving Jonas his favourite memory  it seemed to me as if he was describing a candle like this one. Jonas mentionned that he was a little afraid of it as it was fire. But Jonas also liked it because it gave off warmth and light. This candle also meant to Jonas the feelings of happiness, warmth and family; love.

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- Today was an unsceduled holiday; these were rare
- Soon formal school would be finished for Jonas
- Jonas has now not taken his pills for 4 weeks
- The stirrings had come back to him. He felt a little bit of guilt about it
- Now Jonas is able to see all of the colours and keep them
- The children were playing a game of Good and Bad guys
- Jonas did not like this game anymore and tried to hold back the tears
- Everyone had left and it only remained Jonas, Fiona and Asher
- Jonas told them not to play this game anymore
- He told them it was a cruel game but they just did not understand
- Gabriel began trying to say his name. He pronounced it as "gay"

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Father had cut off Lily when she was explaining her thought of what if everyone had a twin that was elsewhere. Why did her father cut her off? Was it because he did not want her to have any ideas of what could be elsewhere, or was it because it was just an unthinkable t

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- Jonas wished that he could watch the release
- You can watch the release the Giver reminded him because you can aske for anything.
- Jonas was still slightly confused because children were noot to watch the releases.
- All private ceremonies are recorded
- Jonas watched the release
- His father filled a syringe and inserted it into the small childs forehead as the veins in their arms are too small.
- Jonas then relized that his father killed the baby
- He relized when he saw the samll movements the small child made as they were similair in the memory of war.
- His father placed the child in a box, placeed a lid on it and put it into a chute to go elsewhere.
- The giver had watched the release of Rosemary
- Jonas felt torn on the inside after watching and learning what a release is

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What would they do if the twins were the same size/weight?

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- The Giver is not permitted to request for release until the new reciever of memory is fully trained
- Jonas wanted to know what had happend with the failed selection
- Her name was Rosemary
- She enjoyed her trainning at the begining
- When the Giver gave her the memory of lonliness and and loss that feeling changed
- That night she did not return to her dwelling, she went to apply to be released.
- Joans exclaimed that that was against the rules, but that was not in her rules the Giver told Jonas.
- Rosemary got released
- After she got released all of the memories went back to the community that she had recieved over the 5 weeks.
- The Giver explained to Jonas that if they loose him all of the memories that he has gained over this past year would go back to the community, the good and the bad ones

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RIVER:
Jonas asked what would happen if he fell into the river like teh 4 year old Caleb did. The Giver explained how all the memories would come back to the community. Jonas said that he would not have to worry about it because he is a good swimmer