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Jonas’s father brings the struggling newchild Gabriel home to spend nights with Jonas’s family. Lily remarks that Gabriel has “funny eyes” like Jonas—both boys have light eyes, while most people in the community have darker eyes. Lily is being slightly rude: in their society it is inappropriate to call attention to the ways in which people are different. Lily also says she hopes she will be assigned to be a Birthmother when she grows up, since she likes newchildren so much, but her mother tells her that the position of Birthmother carries very little honor

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One day while Jonas is playing catch with an apple, with his best friend Asher he notices something stange about the apple.The apple had suddenly changed. After this discovery Jonas took the apple home to examine it. When he took it home for examination he found nothing wrong with the apple.This event is important because it gives us information that would be helpful later on in the book.Also this event gives us a clue about Jonas' assignment
and how this ability would relate to his assignment.

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In Jonas' family they have a ritual that they do every morning. This ritual is sharing your dream with your family member. Jonas did not contribute much but this morning is different. Jonas dreamt about wanting to bathe his friend Fiona but she would not allow it.He told his parents this and first thing they realized was that he had stirrings.The first sign of stirrings is wanting.This is important to the novel because this shows how Jonas received it and the signs of it.

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Jonas and his family are preparing to go to the ceremony.At the ceremony the kids have numbers in which order they should go up on stage.Jonas is number 19.The cheif elder says the number 16,17,18, and 20. Jonas had been skipped and feels like he had done wrong .The chief elder apologizes. He reads Jonas had been selected as Receiver of Memeory.

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When Jonas became the Receiver of Memory he was given a set of rules. These rules were to be followed as the Receiver. Under any cther circumstances you can not break these laws. When Jonas was in pain because of the memeories he was not able to get releive of pain because this pertained to his asignment. This is important because ithis shows how Jonas did not break the laws. Jonas showed courage an bravery in order not to break the laws. This event is very important to the novel.

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The Giver transmitted the memory of snow into Jonas. At first Jonas felt the man's hand on his back but what later it dissapered. Jonas was in a cold enviromentnt that was full of snow. Jonas rode on a sled. Jonas felt excited and happy. This is important to the novel because this talks about what the receiver does and how the memories are related to his job. Also this is the first time Jonas feels happy.

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One day the Giver gave Jonas an disturbiing memory. This disturbing memory was about war. Jonas saw people dead, begging for water and horses lying on the ground. Jonas heard the thuds of cannons. Jonas could not bare it anymore and welcomed death himself. The Giver apologized to Jonas. Later on in the book his frirnds plays war and Jonas tells them to stop.This is important to the novel because it shows Jonas experincing real pain.

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After the disturbing memory The Giver gave Jonas a memory. Jonas was in a room filled with people. These people were all family. There were the parents, the kids and grandprents. They were celebrating a holiday. All of the family cared for each other. respected each other and most imoportantly they loved each other. The Giver told Jonas that the family felt more complete.because of love. The world they live in has no love. This is important to the novel because Jonas learns the word love.

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One day The Giver takes Jonas to the Hall of Closed Records to watch something. Jonas sees his father with one of the twins. His father injects a liquid in to the baby's vein. The baby slowly dies. Jonas shouts ''My father killed, my father killed. Jonas says that he does not want to go back home. The Giver informs his family unit Jonas would be staying with him. This is important to the novel because Jonas learns about what release is really abouut.

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Jonas leaves the community with Gabriel who was supposed to be released.The Giver tranfers memories of courage and bravery to Jonas.They leave and the Giver stays. Jonas steals his father's bike and food. They traveled for a long time. They saw search planes and called out planes. It became very cold Jonas transfered the memories to Gabriel to keep him warm. Jonas felt happy because of the memories of his friend.Jonas rode on the sled and saw lights and heard music but it was perhaps an echo

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Jonas identifies warmth coming from the sky and decides that this mysterious thing is called "sunshine." This, too, we are told, was done away with when they went to Sameness. The old man decides they are done for the day.

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The Giver explains that it was a choice, and that for losing things like color, they gained control.

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After Jonas receives his first memory, he finds that it is not too hard to obey the rules that come with his position. His family is used to his not dreaming frequently, so they do not question him much at dream-telling time. His friends are so busy describing their own training experiences that he can just sit still and listen, knowing that he could not even begin to explain what happens in his training. As they bicycle to the House of the Old together, he talks with his friend Fiona about her training as a Caretaker of the Old and notices her hair change the way the apple changed. At the Giver’s living space, Jonas tells him about the changes, wondering if that is what the Giver means by seeing beyond. The Giver says that for him, his first experiences with seeing beyond took a different form, one that Jonas would not understand yet. He asks Jonas to remember the sled from yesterday, and Jonas notices that the sled has the same strange quality as Fiona’s hair and the apple

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The Giver transmits the memory of another ride on a sled, only this time the sled loses control and Jonas experiences pain and nausea from a badly broken leg. The pain lingers after the experience is over, but the Giver is not allowed to give him relief-of-pain, and Jonas limps home and goes to bed early. Forbidden to share his feelings with his family, he feels isolated, realizing that they have never known intense pain. Over the next days, the Giver transmits more and more painful memories, always ending the day with a memory of pleasure. After experiencing starvation, Jonas asks why these horrible memories need to be preserved, and the Giver explains that they bring wisdom: once, for example, the community wanted to increase the number of children allowed to each family, but the Giver remembered the hunger that overpopulation brings and advised against it. Jonas wonders why the whole community cannot share the pain of these important memories, and the Giver tells him that this is the reason the position of Receiver is so honored

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When Jonas shows up at The Giver's room, the old man is crumpled in pain. Jonas readies to leave, but The Giver begs him to take some of the pain, which he willingly does. This time, Jonas receives the memory of a body-strewn battlefield.

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When Jonas asks The Giver to describe his favorite memory, The Giver tells Jonas he wants to give it to him, not just describe it to him. The Giver transmits the memory of a group of people, very young and very old, opening presents under a tree covered in lights. He tells Jonas the memory is of family and love.

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Four weeks after Jonas stops taking his pills, an unscheduled holiday is declared in the community. His Stirrings have returned, and he has pleasurable dreams that make him feel a little guilty, but he refuses to give up the heightened feelings that the Stirrings and his wonderful memories have given him.