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Out of the 4 themes studied which one do you think is the most important? 

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Out of the 4 themes studied which one do you think is the most important? 

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Out of the 4 themes that we studied I think blind obedience is the most important. I think this because blind obedience is when it is important for people to question their society instead of following blindly, but in Jonas’ community most of them are following blindly. For instance, when the kids get hit when they get into trouble, the parents never question what the kids have done. When Asher was three he mistaked the word snack for smake. Of course though, when you mispronounce a word the teachers will hit you. Asher was hit many times because of that. As usual though the parents didn’t question.This goes to show you that even though the parents watch over them and take care of them, they don’t think about what happens to them at school or hesitate to even wonder. Also, when Jonas was talking to the giver about releasing people. The people in the community never questioned about release. When they release the old, nobody knows but the ones who live in the house of the old. Nobody asks to see someone being release until the day that Jonas wanted to see what happened to the twins. Jonas questions about what will happen with Fiona. Jonas knows that she loves the old. But the Giver said that Fiona is already been trained with the fine art of release. Finally, the Giver said that they were trained to do this all their lives. They've been doing this for such a long time. Giver said that they barely knew anything. This goes to show you that they’ve been doing this for so long that still people have no idea what’s going on but don’t seem to care.

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- Jonas kept saying to himself that he could do it and it would happen perfectly. When Jonas was at the bridge near the annex house, he realized that he felt sadness leaving his family behind. He knew from last night when he was talking with his family that tomorrow Gabriel would be released. Of coarse the father voted for him to be released. The weird thing is that the mother and Lily both agreed that it was understandable. But Jonas didn't say a word.

- Jonas kept going passed the bridge forgetting about the community that he was in. When Jonas took his father bike to escape, he took Gabriel with him. He knew that Gabriel had a better life to live than being released. THey travailed in the night and slept in the day so that they wouldn't get caught. They were near lots of fields and streams to gather water and food. When ever they slept, Jonas gave him a dream so that he could fall asleep easily without complaining.

- Jonas realized later on that search planes were now looking for him and the baby. they mostly came in the day but when they came at night Jonas was aware and ready to pedal to the bushes and trees. Even Gabriel said "plane,plane" to let jonas know if he didn't hear the screeching sounds of the planes. Jonas had to transfer cold memories into the baby so that the planes could find them.

- The planes had heat reactions so that they could find the humans that were escaping/sneaking away from the community. After a while the planes didn't come so often. Their was even a day that the planes didn't come at all.

1) Why aren't the planes coming anymore? Did they give up the search?

They think that they are died. So there's no point looking for them anymore.

2) Where Jonas is going, could he recieve more memories? Or is that the only memories he will have?

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-Jonas knew that they were close to the destinations that they wanted to reach. Even though they were getting cold, they had hope into finding it. Snow began to fall onto the ground, Gabriel was still quiet but a little fussy. Jonas tried to give Gabriel what he had left of sunshine. It was extremely difficult for Jonas, but than something happened. Jonas began to feel the warmth in his body that even though it was cold that he could still feel something. He could no longer ride the bike because of the snow,.

-Nere the end of the chapter, Jonas finds a sled that him and the baby can go down. Jonas knew it wasn't going to be painful. He knew that the snow would be soft and comfortable. Jonas could here the sound of music and lights coming from houses. But when they got to the bottom of the hill. Jonas realized that it only could have been an echo.

1) Was Jonas actually close to finding a place for him and Gabriel?

2) They never said that Jonas could see color? Why didn't they?

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- Jonas was long gone from the community, he was now free to do anything he wanted. He had Gabriel with him, Jonas was now not caring only himself he was caring most about Gabriel. They had fears ahead of them though. Their was steep roads, long high hills, and also rocky roads. They also had a lack of food, they no longer had the food from the community. They were now starving. The thing that startled Jonas was the fact that the baby said plane. But it was just a bird.

- They now came to a water fall with lots of animals like deer, birds, fox's, and lots more. Jonas hurt his leg because he fell from his bike onto the ground. It started to bleed alot. Gabriel never cried when they started the journey but now he did. He was hungry weak and unset that the fact that Jonas fell scared him.

- Jonas knew that he didn't have to leave, that he could've stayed in the community and not have been starving. But gabriel wouldn't have a life. If Jonas didn't save the baby he would have died. Jonas now knew what weather really was. When he was on the journey he felt rain. But not the good kind.

1) Why didn't Jonas kill one of the animals like the deer?

2) When will he get to feel snow?

He gets to feel snow when he gets closer to the destination. Also, in the next chapter.

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- Jonas didn't want to go home. He didn't want to see his family. He was upset with his father that he killed the little one. The giver said to Jonas that could stay with the giver. When he said on the announcements that Jonas was going to stay with him, Jonas was mocking them because he was upset. Giver was ready to order the meal, and he was ready to make a plan.

-The giver said that we can change things. But Jonas said that we can't. That we've already tried. Things have been this way for a long time. Giver said even though things have been this way for a long time doesn't mean we can't change them. The giver has finally found a way. The plan was that Jonas was going to leave the community, and find somewhere else. Jonas wanted the giver to come, but he siad no. Jonas knew that he needed to stay to help the others with their memories.

-The giver had the stuff of hearing beyond not seeing beyond like Jonas. He could hear music. Jonas and the giver rehearsed where Jonas was going to go many times. They were looking for an elsewhere where they knew what existed. there's a lot of steps to go through but giver knew that jonas would get through it.Nobody will realize that Jonas was gone. He would hide in the vehicle that the giver would ride to an errand with.

- At the end Jonas still wanted the giver to come with him but the giver told Jonas that once he was finished he would go and be with his daughter. Jonas didn't know he had a daughter. Her name was Rosemary.

1)Will Jonas actually make it out alive?
Yes Jonas will make it out alive, he will suffer a bit but he will live.

2)Will they release Jonas if they find him sneaking out?

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- Jonas was apologizing to the giver because of his questions. Jonas said how he wished to see the choosing of the twins and who will be released. The giver reminded Jonas that he could ask anyone to see anything including seeing the twins. As he watched he was very amused. The first child was 6 pounds, and the other was 5 pounds.

- The child that was 6 pounds got dressed up and taken to the nurturing center to be taken care of. As for the other one, well they were preparing that one to be released. First, the father took out a syringe out of the drawer and a bottle. They took the syringe and put it into the bottle. After, the father put the syringe into the baby's head. THe baby cried of coarse. But the father couldn't put the syringe into the baby's arm because there vain wasn't big enough.

- After that happened Jonas realized that his father killed the baby. He was mortified. The giver though told him to be quiet. The father put the syringe that was empty into the garbage and the baby didn't move at all. The giver told Jonas this was what happened to Rosemary. But the weird thing was that she asked to inject herself.

1) Why did they have to kill the baby that way? Why couldn't they let the baby live?

2) Why did Rosemary want to inject herself?Did she want to commit suicide?

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- At the start of the chapter, the family was talking about the dreams that they had during the night. The mom and lily had bad dreams, the father had no dreams and Jonas had a weird dream.

- Jonas told his family about the dream. Than his mother mentioned something about "stirrings" For the "stirrings" to go  away he had to take a pill everyday until he went to the house of the old In order to keep the dreams from happening.

1) How did this dream come into Jonas' head?
How the dream came into Jonas' head was because when they were bathing the elders, Fiona was with them and his brain made a reaction to this. So that's how the dream came into Jonas' head.

2) What does "stirring" mean?

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- At the start of the chapter, the father was getting the baby out of the basket of his bike when lily noticed that the baby had different colored eyes than most people would in there community. Jonas was one of those people that had lighter eyes, it wasn't a rule to have dark eyes but it was rude if someone talked about it.

- they don't have many mirrors in the community, so it startled jonas when looking at the baby and thinking that's what he might have looked like as a child.

- Lily was hoping to be a birthmother for her assignment, but when her mother told her it was a harder job than it seemed, she changed her mine.

- Jonas was playing catch with asher by throwing an apple, something was different about the apple though. Everytime it was thrown it changed for a split second than turned back into a regular apple.

1) How does the apple keep changing? Why is it happening?

The apple is changing because Jonas has the capacity to see beyond the other people in his communit.
2) Why can people only really have dark eyes? Why is it considered rude to put attention to lighter colored eyes?

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- Jonas was wondering if the Giver ever wondered about release. He did, well sometimes. Jonas said that he couldn't apply for release because it was in the rules. Giver said that was because of what happened ten years ago. Jonas asked the Giver what really happened.

- The Giver said it was much like Jonas' ceremony. The crowd was cheering, the girl was frightened like he was. The giver said that she was an intelligent woman. Her name was Rosemary. Jonas liked that name. The giver felt love from the girl. He told Jonas how he gave her happy memories and to hear her laughter. But Giver didn't want to give the painful memories to her. Rosemary though was ready for the memories that would lead her to pain.The first memory that he gave her was loneliness, the thought of a child getting taken away from her parents.

-The giver saw that she was terrified, he had to give her more though. He gave her terror, Poverty and hunger. The giver saw the scary things that were happening in her eyes. The last day that Rosemary came to the giver, she gave him a kiss on the cheek and than left. Giver heard on the speaker that she requested for release and they did.

-The giver was sad and angry and the same time. Jonas said that was against the rules. But the giver said that it wasn't for her, she could do whatever she wanted. So she was released and never to be seen again.

1) Where did she go? In a different community?

2)Will the girl ever be able to return to the community?

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- At the beginning of the chapter everybody in the community had an unscheduled holiday, except for the labourers of course. They would take care of the nurturing center, taking care of the old and lots more. Jonas would have no school, so he went to look for Asher.

-Jonas now hasn't token his pills for 4 weeks now. He liked the feeling of having feelings and happiness. He knew it wasn't right of him but he kept going anyways. He didn't know which were the memories and which were the pills. He could see all the colors now and they stayed as well. Jonas could see Gabriels rosy cheeks when he slept, he could see the apples bright red, he could see the river a pretty bright blue and the grass so green.

- When Jonas found Asher they were playing an imaginary game of war. When he saw people go down he tried not to cry. All he could see was the boy that begged for water in the memory. When everyone went away Asher and Fiona were left in the field. Jonas asked them not to play anymore, but Asher said that he was the director of recreation and he had no say in it. Jonas felt sorry for Asher because he didn't knew the memories.

- After, the day was over, Lily was talking about how she got to hang out with her friends and how she rode father's bike but she fell. The father was talking about how the twins are going to be born tomorrow and that they will have to choose one to be saved and 1 will be released.Jonas was wondering where they will go elsewhere. The mother was saying that Lily could be a storyteller when she's a twelve because she had a lot of story to tell. Gabriel was learning to walk as well.

1) Why was Asher so annoyed with Jonas about the game?

2) What will happen to the twins? which twin will be released?
The 1 with the lightest amount of weight will get released.

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- Jonas wasn't comfortable being the receiver anymore. He didn't like receiving all of the bad and terrible memories. He wished that he could go back to his childhood with scraps and bruises. Riding bikes home with his friends. Though he knew he couldn't, he knew that he was selected for a very honorable job. He also knew that there was more to memories than pain. He knew that their was a feel of joy that he could receive.

- Jonas asked the receiver what his favourite memory was. It was the memory of a holiday with a tree lit up with red and green lights, presents on the floor about to be opened by adults and children. It was snowing gracefully outside.When the memory ended, jonas got 2 words which were happiness and warmth. He asked why the old people were there and the giver said that they were grandparents. Jonas didn't understand at first but than when the giver told him about it he understood.

- Gabriel was still sleeping in Jonas' room because gabriel was finally sleeping right. When the father tried to put him back in the nurturing center, Gabriel was fussy and couldn't sleep. So they put Gabriel back with Jonas. Jonas was now telling Gabriel about his memories, good memories to be exact about the sailboat and walking on the grass with bare feet. When Jonas was almost asleep he told him that their could be love.

1)How come Jonas didn't take his pill the next morning?

2) Did something happen in Lois Lowery's life that relates to the story?

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- Jonas knew that today would be one of the days that he would be sent out of the Annex room because the giver was in a lot of pain. But when Jonas was turning around to leave, the giver asked him if he could have some of the pain so that the giver wouldn't have to suffer.

- In the memory Jonas discovers that he is in a field that has a bunch of men, horses and other woman. The men were groaning of thrust, the horses were walking around limping and falling so they couldn't get back up. Woman were crying because of the men who were dying.

- One man that was not much older than Jonas, was calling out to him because he was begging for water. Jonas realized that his arm also was excruciating in pain seeing that he could also see his bone.he handed over his water packet to the mans mouth to give him a drink.

- Almost, at the end of the memory Jonas thought that he heard cannons. Right before Jonas was going to die, he woke up. The giver apologize for what he gave to Jonas.

1)Why did the giver apologize to Jonas?
The giver didn't want Jonas to get hurt when the giver gave him the memories
2) How long back did that memory come from?

A long long long long time ago.

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- The same memory came again to Jonas. But this time it was more painful. When he was going down the hill, it was steeper and fill with ice. He flue off the sled and broke his leg. THe pain felt like fire to Jonas. He throw up in the snow because of the pain. When he woke up, tears covered his face.

- Jonas was wondering why the giver and him had to keep the terrible memories, he didn't like feeling pain. Although at the end of each lesson, the giver would give him a colorful memory. It gave them wisdom to have painful memories. Before, birthmothers wanted to have 4 childbirths to increase the population. But than it would increase starvation. The committee didn't like pain. That's why they only have a certain amount of people.

- The reason why the receiver has so much honor is because they take away the destruction and memories from people so that don't feel pain. The giver was the one that told the committee to wait and not shoot down the airplane. Because before their was a lot of pain going around people.

- The father and mother were still worried the Gabriel would be released. He might because theirs 2 twins coming soon. The father will have to choose whether 1 will be released or the other. Jonas was taking care of Gabriel when he realized that he gave the memory to him. He was frightened but decided not to tell the giver.

1)  Is this because Gabriel has pale eyes? And would Gabriel become a receiver because of it?

No because if Jonas didn't take the baby with him, Gabriel would have died.
2) WIll Gabriel get released? Why haven't they just released him already?
They were going to give him another chance before hand. Gabriel would have been release if Jonas didn't save him
3) Why can't they keep the 2 twins? why do they have to release 1 of them?

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- Jonas was frustrated because he wanted the right to choose stuff. For instance, he wants to wake up in the morning and choose, red or blue. Also, when he talks about Gabriel, he thinks that Gabriel should be able to choose whether or not he wants that certain toy.

- He realized that it wouldn't be safe for people to have the right to choose. That it wouldn't work out the way they wanted to. For example, if people had to choose their own job, if they choose wrong?

-Jonas was wondering about applying for a spouse. He was wondering if the giver has a spouse. The Giver said that it will be different than having a spouse in the community. His spouse now lives with the childless adults.

- When the receiver failed of being one, the memories that she received where released and never to be seen again. They never came back to the giver as well.

1) What does seldom mean? In the text it says "But it very seldom happens."

2) Why could the parents just live in their own houses for the rest of their lives? It wouldn't harm anyone?

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-Mother asked Jonas if he slept soundly, he did. Buy sadly, Gabriel still hasn't kept up on his sleep. Also, when people were talking about their training, Jonas felt insecure because he wanted to talk to but he couldn't begin to describe what he did or what he saw.

- It happened again with fiona. She changed again, but this time it was just her hair. Jonas asked the giver.  He told him to call back the memory with the sled and look at it this time, he did. Jonas was beginning to see COLOR red. SO Fiona has red hair. And the people have red tones.

-The reason why people don't see color is because they went to sameness. At the end of the chapter, the giver is going to show Jonas a rainbow.

1) Why can't Gabriel sleep soundly at night?

2) What's going to happen when Jonas is going to be shown a rainbow?

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- At the beginning of the chapter, Jonas didn't feel anything happening, but than he felt colder. It didn't frighten Jonas. He stuck his tongue out to feel the cold breeze. At some points he felt snowflakes on his tongue. At once he understood that he was on a sled that was going downhill.

- Jonas asked why they didn't have snow in their community. It was because of the climate control, snow made it difficult to grow food and to move around. That's also why we don't have vehicules.

- Jonas was wondering why the man and the chief elder said that it would be painful. So Jonas laid back down and this time he felt stinging coming from his arm. He couldn't find the word that he was looking for because it hurt so much. The man told him the word was 'sunburn'

-Jonas was wondering what to call the man since he kept calling Jonas the reciever. He said to call him the giver

1) What did snow have to do with climate control? Doesn't rain do the same thing?

2) Why does he want to be named the giver?
Because he will be the person giving the memories to Jonas.

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-When Jonas asked Asher to ride home with him, Jonas felt uncertain about something. It happened again when some else said congratulations to Asher and Jonas.

-  Jonas asked he's parents why they had made the wrong decision when they chose the last receiver. IT was pretty much the same thing as Jonas' ceremony put when they singled out a person like they did with Jonas, it was a girl. They couldn't use her name again for a newborn because of the mistake that they did.

-Some of the rules didn't feel right to Jonas. For instance. you may lie except illness or injury unrelated to your training, do not apply for any medication.

- Jonas was thinking about the last rule of being a receiver. "You may lie", He thought about it for a while, he didn't think he'd lied before. Except for 1 time when he said he was starving.

1) Why can't he take medication while he does his training?Will it affect him? Will it cause him more pain?

It will take away the wisdom he will receive from his training and he won't fully understand the meaning of pain.

2) Why would he be aloud to lie? Why isn't it the same rules as the rest of the community?

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What is a theme?

-  What the author is trying to say about people, society,etc.
- Not to be confused with a theme topic like"love," "war," or "family."

Topic: Self-Discovery

- People must be able to make choices to reach their own destiny/fulfillment.

Topic: The importance of memory

- Lowry's personal inspiration- father with memory loss.
Without memory, human beings cannot reach true happiness or learn from their mistakes

Topic: Pleasure and Pain

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

Topic: blind Obedience
- It is important for people to question their society instead of following blindly.

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Definition:

- How the author reveals information
- From the perspective of the narrator

First Person:

-Perspective of one caracter
- look-fors -I, me, mine, myself.
- Advantages- Inner thoughts of character
-Disadvantages-????

Third Person- Limited:

- Narrator can "see" many characters but not everything
- look-fors- he, she, it, they, them,etc.
-Advantages- can still create suspense
-Disadvantages-????

Third Person- Omniscient;

- Narater knows all
- look-fors- he, she, they, them, etc.
- Advantages- creates full pictures for reader
- Disadvantages-????

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-Jonas was given the assignment of being the receiver of memory. Usually there is only 1 receiver. But the 1 that they chose before, they made a mistake. So the old receiver of memory will teach Jonas.

- To be a proper receiver you need intelligence, wisdom, integrity and courage. A lot of courage. But for this assignment, there's a lot of pain that Jonas has to deal with. Mostly physical pain.

- Jonas saw the visions again like he did with the apple, but this time the people around him were changing. All at once he understood. THe Chief Elder had said that Jonas and the other receiver had the capacity to see beyond. Which means he can see farther ahead than anyone else in his community.

1) How did they make the wrong decision? Was the person not capable enough to be the receiver?

The receiver was a female when they chose her. Also, you aren't aloud to mention her name of give it to a newborn.

2) What changes about the people?What changes about the apple?

Color begins to show on them. Jonas is starting to realize that there once was color in the world.

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- Now Jonas was sitting at the front of the auditorium for to be given his assignment. When they called them up they used their birth names. Sometimes, the parents use their birth numbers when their in trouble. Jonas' birth number was 19.

- The Chief Elder was the one who made the speech and give the elevens their assignments.

- They started off with the assignments, the first three people got birthmother ,instructor of sixes and fish hatchery.Jonas paid close attention when asher when up. They talked over how there was some assignments that was not suited for him. Finally he was given the assignment of Assistant Director of Recreation.

- Right when they were just about to call Jonas' name, they skipped him and went on to number 20. He felt so ashamed. He was think hard about why they had forgot to call his name. He was thinking that he did something wrong

1) Why was the Chief Elder the one who gave the speech? Why couldn't have been their parents? Or relatives?

2) How come they forgot to say Jonas' name? Did he not have enough volunteer hours? Did he steal to many fruits?

Because he wasn't chosen to have his assignment, he was SELECTED to have his assignment.

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- Lily didn't like ribbons in her hair. But she was happy that she only had to wear them for one more year than she didn't have to wear them anymore. Also, she could finally get a bike.

- Jonas' family got ready for the ceremony. His father couldn't sit with them though because he had to sit with the other nurturers to take care of the newborns. Gabriel was supposed to be released but the father pleaded for him to have one more year of caring and they accepted it.

- The ceremony for the newborns getting their family's and Jonas getting his assignment was all happening at the same time, but the newborns went first than people that we getting their assignments wound go next.

-The ceremony of tens wasn't interesting for Jonas, all though they did get new haircuts.

-  Asher was talking the Jonas that if you don't like your assignment or you don't want to be apart of there community, that you apply to go into a different community.

1) Why did lily have to wear ribbons in the first place?

2) Why did the newborns go first? Couldn't Jonas' group go first?

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-  Jonas liked having the right that he could chose what he wanted to do for his volunteer hours. It felt luxurious to him.

- Jonas was looking for Asher, so that they could do food deliveries for the food districted. But once again Asher was at the house of the old, taking care of the elderly.

- The house of the old was happy to have volunteers at that hour because they released someone.

-Once long ago there was someone that couldn't get there assignment because they didn't finish their volunteer ours. So they had to restart eleven and didn't get to have a cerimonie, they had to live with the guilt.

-  Jonas was bathing an old that eas named larissa. This reminded Jonas of the time his father bathed Gabriel. They were talking about the old person that was released. Jonas knew the person. His name was Roberto.

1) Why did they release Roberto? Was he sick? Was he dying of old age?

2) How do they release someone? Do they inject them with something?

There is a room that they go into to release someone. They also inject a needle into their heads.

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What is a Utopia?

- A community or society possessing desirable or perfect qualities

Ex: Garden of Eden, Heaven, Nirvana

What is a Dystopia?

- Greek word meaning "anti-utopia"

- A community or society that is undesirable or frightening

Ex: Hell

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- Jonas remembered the time when they first received lily, also was the day that they heard what her name was

- the father sneaked into the office to see what the baby that he was caring for was named. The baby's name woud be gabriel if he didn't get released

- They had to stand on a stage to receive lily. Her name was on a document sheet.

- The ceremony is when they pick jobs for each twelve. The are very careful when assigning jobs to people. Jonas was worried for asher because he didn't have any serious interests

1) Why don't they have cars? Why do they only use bikes?

Because when they had snow it made it difficult to move around, they don't have snow anymore, so that they can easily move their bikes. It's easier to move around in climates with bikes than cars.

2) Why can't they pick their own jobs? Wouldn't that be easier?

Because of someness. If someone made the wrong decision of picking their job, it would become a disaster in the community.

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-   During the beginning of the story a plane crashed landed, but it was a misunderstanding and they released the person that was driving the plane.

- The ceremony of twelves

-  Jonas' family does rituals every day to talk out there emotions and feelings. Lily went first, than the father, than the mother and finally Jonas himself.

-  In the country that they live in each family has to have 1 daughter, 1 son, a mother and a father. No exceptions what soever

1) What does it mean in the story when it says,  "we'll release him?"

Released mean that they are going to kill them.

2) Why can you only have a 4 person family? You should be able to have as many kids as you want?

Because than their wouldn't be enough food for the people. Their would be people that would starve and have pain of not having enough food. People didn't like when other people were in pain.

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-Doors were never locked at Jonas' community. Ever. So when the attendant at the office unlocked it,, he felt uncomfortable. She reassured him that everything is fine. The door is locked so that the receiver can work in peace.

- When Jonas walked into the room he saw thousands of books that he has never seen before. The only books that he had in his family unit are a dictionary, thick community volumen and the book of rules.

-The other receiver said that he can see what was in the past. Jonas was very confused about that. After trying to explain to him for a long time he still couldn't understand. The person tryed something knew. He told Jonas to sit down so that he could send the memory of what snow looked like.

1) Why are there so many bookshelves in the room? Are they meen't for different things?

2) How come Jonas doesn't know what snow is? Or a sled? Or runners?

Because they didn't have snow in their community. It was because of climate control, snow made it difficult to go places and grow food to live.