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

In the community everyone is hidden from what pain is except for one or two people. The giver and the receiver without them the community would have to feel the pain of "elsewhere" and from the past. Jonas often talked about how before he was a receiver he never felt real pain. Like on page 62 the chief elder talks about when he will be receiver he will have a lot of pain. "''Jonas,'' she said, turning to him, but speaking in a voice
that the entire community could hear, "the training required
of you involves pain. Physical pain.""  Another example is when the chief elder talked about Asher at the ceremony of 12. She talked about how he had trouble with his language precision and how they smacked him until he got it right. Page 55 "He couldn't seem to stop, though for each
lapse the discipline wand came again, escalating to a series
of painful lashes that left marks on Asher's legs. Eventually,
for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when
he was a Three.". So Asher couldn't have perfect language if he did not get hit.

In the community there are a lot of rules and laws to keep peace and order. If you break some of the more sever laws then you will be released from the community which means to be injected by a lethal injection. If no one in the community got released then no there would be no order and laws would always be broken. If there was no pain (being released) then there would be no pleasure (a "perfect" community). That is why in my opinion pleasure and pain is the most important theme.

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Jonas was sure that he would arrive to his destination soon

even though he didn't see anything at the end of the curvy road he just had a feeling

now jonas wasn't even sure he would make it to elsewhere

he saw gabe was having trouble surviving becuase he was so cold

then jonas took gabe and put him on his chest and explained what snow was

now gabe was not responding so jonas looked down and saw that gabes hair was filthy and his cheeks were pale

jonas was having trouble biking because of all the snow and at one point his bike stopped

jonas wanted to give a memory to gabe but he didn't know if gabe could receive and if he was even strong enough to warm himself with his torn blanket

once jonas could not ride in the snow he dropped his bike he thought that he could just slide in the snow and keep walking then go into a warm deep sleep

but he knew that couldn't happen

jonas was having trouble getting up a hill and he was trying to remember warmth

then he gave the memory to gabe and he got the strength to keep going

Jonas wished that the giver had given him more memories of warmth before he "escaped"

once he reached the summit of the hill he got more numb and more tired

he started thinking about happiness and all the good memories he had with his friends and family

jonas knew that through the big storm there was warmth in the light that he saw

jonas saw a sled and sat on it but he was having trouble holding the rope because his fingers were so cold

he held gabe tight as they went down in the snow

he was starting to lose consciousness

he was going down faster and faster and they he felt joy

when he got to the bottom he heard people singing

then it ended

Questions

Did jonas hear people singing or was it just a memory?

is he going to see christmas?

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In the new place they were in jonas starting seeing changes in the road

it was more bumpy and narrow

one night jonas hit a rock in the path and he fell and gabe was uninjured but he was scared

jonas twisted his ankle and he scraped his knee

now instead of being scared of the people searching for im he was scared of the new paths and what was to come

then jonas saw his first stream of water they he heard gabe say plane plane so he went into the trees and grabbed gabe

he looked up and he knew it was not a plane but something the giver had given him a memory about

it was a bird

he saw a deer for the first time and he saw wildflowers and wildlife

now jonas was having trouble finding food

jonas and gabe were now always hungry

and jonas tried to catch fish on his own by the river

then he decided to take gabes blanket and wrap it around a stick to make some kind of fishing net and it worked

he got two fish out of the water

the ate the fish raw with some berries

at night gabe lied by jonas sleeping but jonas was awake

thinking about how hungry he was

when jonas was eating he was imagining full meals like big steaks and birthday cakes

jonas was thinking about the choice he made and thinking if it was the right choice

he thought that if he would have stayed he wouldn't be starving

but if he stayed then gabe would be dead

now jonas is really struggling to bike

and he has to deal with different weather

he said it was raining for 2 days straight

and his leg was really hurting

for the most part gabe did not cry for the journey but now he did because he was hungry and weak

now jonas cried because of the same reasons

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In the beginning jonas kept telling himself that it was going to work over and over

everything that they planned fell apart

it was really dangerous because some of the workers were still out

he saw everything and so far everything was going good

he was moving sneakily

he didnt feel any regret

but he was sad that he had to leave his best friend

he yelled back into the community saying goodbye to the giver

the night jonas wasn't there gabe did not spend the night there, he went to the nurturing centre

it went really bad

he cried all night

They voted for gabe's release and jonas's dad voted to release him

then jonas got mad

his family unit said that they tried their best

jonas took gabe

he gave him a happy memory before they left

the giver didn't have time to give jonas memories of strength or bravery

as time passed and as jonas got farther and farther his legs started to hurt more and more and eventually went numb

when it was dawn gabe woke up and he kept laughing in the bike seat because of all the bumps

when morning came jonas and gabe ate the extra food

after they ate gabe was playing in the long grass

jonas decided that he needed to rest so he held gabe and they went to a tree

jonas gave gabe a memory again to get him to sleep

there were airplanes looking for them

dividing the food was getting harder and harder and jonas's legs were getting really sore

jonas was not scared that the planes would see them because they couldn't see colour therefore they couldn't see gabe's golden locks

since they had been running for awhile now everytime gabe heard an engine he said "plane plane"

now jonas couldn't find any form of life

sometimes gabe heard the planes before jonas did

Questions

Does gabe have special hearing like the giver
we don't find out

Are the planes going to find jonas

not that we know of

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Jonas was crying on the bed and he did not want to go home after

the receiver said that he had to stop crying because his family unit couldn't hear him cry

then jonas was upset because no one heard the twin cry but his father

the giver told the lady that jonas was gonna spend the night with him

jonas was really upset about what hapened and he said that they didnt know any better

he said that if jonas wasnt selected he would be just as clueless

the gover calmed jonas down and he talked b]about how no one had feeling but long ago they did

they were special and they had been sharing these special feeling for almost a year now

the giver talked about how he wanted to change the world or their community and everything was hopeless until jonas came

he really wanted to change

they were planning something and jonas wanted the giver to come

but he couldn't because the community was relying on them

once jonas was about to leave the giver warned him that once he left he couldn't come back

and if he got elsewhere the community would get all the memories that he was holding

jonas kept begging the giver

he talked about how the community would gain wisdom

the giver wasnt giving jonas the ability to hear beyond which was something he got as a child

jonas thought about the plan and for 2 weeks they planed that jonas would leave at midnight and the receiver gave him all the memories he could of courage and strenght

if the plan didn't work or if he got caught he would say that he was doing business stuff for the giver

the plan was to brng some extra clothes

leave his bike in the middle of nowhere and run out into the dark to the annex room and the giver said that there is no night guard person so there will be no trouble

jonas was gonna leave a note on his bed that would say that he went on an early morning bike ride and that he would meet them at the ceremenoy

then he thought becuase he is a twelve in training he didnt have to sit qith his age group anymore so asher would think that he would be sitting with his parents and his parents would think he is sitting with asher or the giver

it would take them time to realize that he wasn't even there

then the giver will get a car and a driver to get jonas elsewhere and he would give him food that he would save from meals from that week

then by noon everyone would realise that he was gone but they couldn't interrupt the ceremony so hey had to wait

then the giver would go to the auditorium and say that jonas was lost in the river

then they would start the weird name ceremony thing

jonas asked one last time if he could come but the giver said that his role was to help the people and the role that jonas had was to leave and give them wisdom

then the giver said i love you

the giver said that when his work would be finished he wanted to be with his daughter

the givers daughter's name is rosemary!!!!!!!!!!!!

Questions

is the plan gonna work

No

will jonas see animals

Jonas will see birds deer and a lot of other wildlife

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jonas was sorry about all the questions about release

he said that his dad had to release a child

the giver said that he wished that they didnt do that but then it would be too confusing to have to identical people walking aroud

jonas said he wished that he could watch the ceremony but they didnt let children watch it

then the giver said that jonas was aloud to ask any questions

it was a rule in his book

the giver said once they are done jonas will be the giver and he will be allowed to ask anything and see all the books

then the giver said that he had all the release ceremonies taped in the grand hall or something and if jonas wanted to see it he could

the giver asked to see the relased of the twin on the itercom thingy in the room

because he though jonas should watch it

then it played and he saw the room and he recognized the scale from the nursery

then two people walked in and he said to the giver who everyone was

one bay was 6 pounds and the other was 5 and ten oucnes

then he said to the other lady that she could take him back to the centre and he talked to the little one is the voice he uses for gabe

then he injected a needle into his head and then when it was empty the baby stopped crying and just moved his arms around

then he stopped moving and he was just laying there with his eyes half open

jonas's father just put things away and he acted like nothing had happend

jonas remmbered the soilder that died and he was sudely mad?

he kept screaming that his father killed it

that he had killed a baby

then his dad put the baby in a box and put it down a garbage chute it the wall

when his dad left the room he said bye bye little guy

then at the end the giver talked about how when he watched the other girls release he was sad

and jonas asked if he thought she was released because she wasn't brave enough

then the receiver said that she wasn't not necessarily brave enough

Questions

Where do the bodies go

will jonas always be mad at his dad

yes

has his dad done it a lot

probably

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The next afternoon jonas talked about release to the giver and asked his opinion on it

then the giver asked his own release or others

then jonas almost apologized but he didn't

the giver takes about how when he is in pain that he thinks about his own release when he is in a lot of pain and it is hard for him to bear it

he wishes he could put in a request to be released but because of the rules he isn't allowed

even though receiver is a great honor jonas was not excited to be fully trained because of all the bad memories

then jonas asked the giver to tell him what happened to the old reciver

then he said that it was really simple on the surface, a receiver was chosen then it was never seen again

he said that the old reciver that was chosen was a smart young girl and she was eager to learn about being reciver and very bright

the girls name was rosemary(like the spice)

ubt it was hard for the receiver to say the name

jonas said that he liked the name

he said that when he was explaining everything to her and how it worked her eyes were lumminous

the giver said that he felt the same feeling for rosemary as the memory of the grandparents

he said he loved her

he also said he loved jonas

he talked about how everything  was going well with her training

and he remembered her laugh

for five weeks he was just giving her happy memories and he tried to give her memories that would make her laugh because he loved her laugh

the giver gave her a memory of loneliness and loss she was stunned at the end it gave pain the the giver to give her pain and he didnt want to but rosemary kept asking

she knew it was her job and she knew that she had to do it

the giver tried to give her happy memories at the end of the day like he did with jonas but when she left she was always frowning and sad

at the end of one day she kissed his cheek

after that he was told that he went to the chief elder

she asked for release

jonas said that it was against the rules to do that

but then the giver said it was against his rules not hers

before that wasn't one of the rues

when she asked for released they had to say yes and the giver never saw her again after the afternoon she kissed him

then jonas thought what if he was released or what if he fell into the river like the little four caleb

then he kept thinking of the hats ifs

he said he sounded like lilly

the giver said that when someone gets released thie rmemories get put back into the community

but if they lost jonas then it would be a lot harder because all the memories of warfare and colour would be giver

Questions

Was the giver thinking about giving good memories to the community if jonas left

Not sure

is jonas planing on leaving

yes he is taking gabe and running away the day of the ceremnoy

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In the beginning of the chapter jonas was talking about the ways that colour came in and out of what he saw and about the city thing

he was getting upset that he couldn’t pick what colour tunic he wore and that everything was just gray

he talked about making choices and how if you got choices and maybe you would make the wrong one

they talked about if you got to choose your mate of even if they got to choose their own job

they thought that was something to laugh about

the giver said that he said thinking about was a little bit scary

jonas was angry that he couldn’t share colour with his friends and he even. tried to do it without being to obvious

jonas talked about different races and how the giver had given him a memory of two brown men ripping of the risks of an elephant then he saw the red and he has a whole new meaning for the colour he thought was happy

jonas tried to give his memory of elephant to his family unit but it didn’t work

then he asked the giver if he had a spouse even though it was considered a rude question

the giver did have a wife but now she lives in the house of the old without child or something

jonas was told about everything that he had to hide from his family if he ever had one like books and all of the memories

sometimes the other old people ask the receiver about advice and things like that

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at giver end of chapter 13 the recover said that he wasn’t just going to give happy memories so now the giver is giving him a bad memory

the memory that the old dude is giving him is like the first one of snow but this time the snow is hard like ice and jonas is going faster

he is trying to steer with the rope but it’s not working

and then jonas broke a bone in the dream

he started to feel the pain and he said it felt like a hot axe going through his body

and he kept saying it felt like a burning sensation

then he started throwing up and then he held in to the vomit and he was screaming for help

when jonas woke up he had tears on his face

his leg still hurt and when he asked for pills the giver said no because it was pain related to his training

when his father asked if he wanted medication he also had to say no

after the sled dream memory thing the giver gave him more and more horrible memories but he ended each training session thing with a good memory with happiness and colour

jonas asked question to the receiver questions about why they existed and why the community needed them

he told them that before jonas was born the committee of elders talked about how hey wanted birth mother to birth more children to increase the population and they asked the receiver what he thought and he talked about a memory he had about hunger

he said hat hunger came to mind when he thought about growing population

then the elders decided not to do the birth mother thing

the committee of old people only talk to the giver when they need advice for a problem they have never faced before

jonas wanted to change the rules and make it so that everyone in the community had to take some of the memories so that the giver and jonas wouldn’t ya e to bear so much

he wanted to apply for a change of rules

then jonas and his family unit talked about gabriel and how he might be released then jonas said he wanted to keep him in his room for the night

when gabe woke up jonas was thinking about the sailboat that the giver gave him then it stared getting fuzzy because he was accidentally giving it to gabe

he decided not to tell the giver that he gave away a memory even though he isn’t qualified to give memories and gabe wasn’t selected as the reciver

Question

Is gabe gonna be the new receiver after jonas

is jonas only able to give the memory to gabe because he has light eyes (because it didn’t work with asher before

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At the beguiling of the chapter jonas went into the room and say that he probably wouldn’t be learning that day

then he turned around to leave and he changed his mind and decided that he would take the memory from the giver

so then jonas helped him to the chair beside he dream bed thing he took his shirt off

but then the giver said that he couldn’t move husband hands so jonas had to touch him

as soon as jonas touched him he started to feel the pain

the place had darkish yellow air

he saw men groaning on the ground

and he saw a horse

it has noisy and smelly

he saw a field of men groaning

he heard a voice saying water weakly

the boy was not much younger then jonas, his face was dirty and he had blonde hair

when the boy asked for water again blood came out of his mouth

jonas looked at his arm because he couldn't feel it and he say flesh with through a ripped shirt tunic thingy

he extended his arm to the boys mouth then water came out of his arm somehow

he heard a lot of people crying and asking for help

now he knew what warfair meant

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The next morning at breakfast, Jonas manages to avoid directly lying while not telling his dream to his parents.

The dream involved his sledding down the hill, again and again, always about to reach something at the bottom, except he doesn't know what the something is. He knows that it is something good, however—something "welcoming."

Jonas heads to school, and during lunch everyone is buzzing about their new assignments and their training. Jonas realizes he couldn't explain his training even if he were allowed, since no one knows what a sled or hill or snow is anyway.

When he sees Fiona, it's clear that she expects him to talk about his training. When he doesn't, she's a little taken aback, but she can't ask directly because that would be rude.

So she just talks about her training to work with the elderly. She reveals that they use a discipline wand on the Old the same way they do on the young.

Then, as he's looking at Fiona, she "changes" the same way the apple did that day. It only happens for an instant, and it is just her hair that changes.

When he arrives at The Giver's place after school, Jonas decides to ask him about it.

The Giver wants to know if Jonas looked down at the sled when he was experiencing the memory. Jones says no, he didn't.

Indeed, says The Giver, this is a case of his seeing beyond; the same thing happened to him when he was Jonas's age, but it happened a little bit differently.

Before he explains, however, he makes Jonas lie down and tells him to recall the memory of the snow from yesterday.

Jonas concentrates and suddenly is back on the sled. He looks down. Whatever quality that the apple had and that Fiona's hair had for a brief moment, this sled has permanently. He doesn't know what it is, though.

Jonas comes back from his memory and The Giver has him look up at one of the books on the shelf, which immediately "changes" the way the apple did.

The Giver then confirms his diagnosis: "You're beginning to see the color red," he tells Jonas.

Not only does Jonas not know what "color" means, he also doesn't know what "red" means. The Giver explains that, back in the day, before "Sameness," objects had a shape and size, but they also had a color. That's what Jonas saw in the apple, in Fiona's hair, and even in the faces of the crowd at the Ceremony, since flesh has red tones in it.

The Giver says that the genetic scientists couldn't work all the kinks out, which is why people like Jonas sometimes still see it.

Jonas thinks the color is beautiful, and The Giver explains that he will soon be able to see all the colors.

Naturally, Jonas wants to know why anyone would ever get rid of something so wonderful. The Giver explains that it was a choice, and that for losing things like color, they gained control.

Jonas vehemently exclaims that they shouldn't have made such a choice, and The Giver is all, "Patience."

Jonas asks what The Giver meant when he said he, too, "saw beyond" when he was a kid, but in a different way. The Giver says he'll save that lesson for another day, and begins to send to Jonas the memory of a rainbow.

Questions

Why is colour a thing that the residents of Jonas's town don't know

for sameness and so that no one makes a bad choice

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The old man's hands were cold and Jonas felt cold in the room where he was training

it's called the annex room

he is in like a dream state

jonas was holding a rope in his dream state thing

Even though his eyes were closed he could see everything that the reciver was showing him

he put out his tongue and felt coldness

he could see something that looked like crystals

he showed him what snow is

jonas sat on a sled on a hill

he called a sled a veichle

he went down a hill on the snow

when he was at the end of the hill he opened his real eyes then he saw the old guy

he said he felt surprised

the old guy said treasfering the memory to jonas was hard

once he gave the memory he couldn't have it back

the old man was showing how it worked  when he was showing the snow

the memory was really old and he got the memory from the other reciver

snow was stopped because of climate control and it was hard to grow food

hills where removed because it made it hard for trucks to move

the power is honor

he is gonna try it again but the receiver wasn't gonna say what it is called

he also got the memory of sun

Questions

why is the receiver so stern to know that the being the reciver is honor not power

was the old reciver released secretly because they took the honor to far

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Jonas begins his training in his happer and he gets there with fiona

when he gets to the building he noticed that the door is locked to the office of the receiver

normally doors don’t lock in the community

jonas has never see a book besides the book of rules

the old receiver said the job wore him out and he only looked old but he had some time left

the last time they selected a receiver was ten years ago

The other receiver just disappeared

The receiver wants to give him all the memories of the world

Questions

Why is he treated differently because the receiver is an odd job and they don't get picked alot

Does jonas have the weird power aswell

yes he gave a memory to gabe

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When he left the auditorium he already felt alone and apart from the group

asher seemed distant from jonas

The night after the ceremony everyone had to study their tasks and what they had to learn for their assignment

Everyone was kinda staring at jonas and watching what he did

At the end of day meal jonas's family talked about his assignment

Jonas's dad talked about his job is the most important

then jonas argued and said but you said the most important job is assigment giving

and jonas's mother said that jonas's assignment isn't really an assignment

The last selection was a girl but it was the wrong choice

they aren't allowed to not say the name

the parents don't know what happened to her

they never saw her again

jonas was looking in his folder and it was almost empty

we heard all the rules

he can lie but he cant be released

he was surprised at the rules

doesn't have to dream tell

he cant have medication for injuries that he gets from the job

the final rule (not to lie) was making him nervous

When he was younger he had a personal lesson because he said i"m starving but that was a lie because he was only hungry and no one in the community would ever starve

at the end of the chapter he questioned life

Questions

Why is this job so special

Because they hold the memories of everyone and the etire world

Who is the girl

rosemary

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Everyone realised that jonas was skipped

Jonas felt embarrassed

Once everyone was given their assignment the chief of elder starting explaining why she skipped im

she was sorry

She apologized to jonas directly and he said i accept your apology

he was called to the stage

he felt dizzy on the was to the stage

she starting talk abd telling the crowd why he wasnt assigned

he had been selected

jonas was the reciver of memory (good)

everyone gasped

everyones eyes widdened

he is rare

the community only has one reciver

the reciver that they had now had been with them very very long

the lady was looking at one specific elder

he has a beard and pale eyes

she wasn't sure about some of the assignments

He is an honored person

once you get the job reciver you cant go back

the choice must be unanimous because the job is so important

if an elder has a dream a person can be kicked out of selection for the job

Jonas was picked long before he was 11

he has all the qualities that a receiver needs

intelligence(top student), integrity,Courage(he has gone through the rigorous training),

courage is really important for this job

the old lady told him that he will feel physical pain when he trains for a reciver

it hurts more than anything in the world

the fourth quality thing is wisdom(she said jonas hasn't gotten that yet

Questions

Was jonas picked because his eyes are pale like the other old guy?

no

Is the receiver the giver

yes

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They got called to give their assignments by their birth number (asher was four, jonas was 19, fiona was 18 )

The chief elder is a she

the chief elder talked about all the different personalities that were in the group of elevens ( good at caretaking and such)

eleven #1 got fish hatchery attendant her name is madeline

asher got a big speech when he got his assignment

When asher was a 3 he asked for a smack instead of a snack over and over and everytime he got hit

Asher got the assignment of assistant director of recreation

Fiona got the assignment of care taker of the old

Jonas got skipped when she was naming

A kid named caleb died

At the ceremony they say the name over an dover

Questions

Why did they skip jonas

he is the reciver

Is he going to be released because he was skipped

no

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We learned what females get as they get older( like a seven gets a jacket that buttons down the front)

They were at the ceremonies and they were all in the auditorium

they were preparing for the ceremony

we found out that gave us going to stay with jonas’s family unit one more year

everyone in the family unit had to sign a pledge to not get attached to gabriel

asher has a little sister named phillipa

fiona’s little brothers name is bruno

Questions

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At the beginning of the chapter they talk about their dreams that they had the night before at breakfast

We learned that jonas doesn't normally dream but this day he did for some unknown reason

In his dream he was in the house of old bathing room and he was with fiona

He was mad at her in the dream because she wasn't taking him seriously

In jonas's dream he wanted to bathe fiona

His father asked him how he felt in the dream and jonas said he felt wanting

They talked a little bit about collection crew

stirring are a bad thing(they need to be medically treated with a "treatment"

The treatment is just pills that everyone takes when they get stirring

His parents take them and some of his friends do to

At the end of the chapter his "stirring" were gone

Questions

Why do they always talk about their feelings whenever they talk about any subject?

because they need to know what the kids are feeling

Is it another law to talk about your dreams

It is a rule but it is a law not to when you are a receiver/giver

Why do they have to take a pill

to stop their dreams about love and other people

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We learned about benjamin and how his volunteer work made the elders decisions easier (He helped at a rehabilitation centre)

Benjamin and jonas were friends

We learned about some new rules( no bragging and such)

Jonas helped to deliver the rounds and supplies

We met the eleven named fiona (good student) (Jonas likes her)

Volunteer hours are tallied and if you don't get all the volunteer hours, at your ceremony of 12 you would not be given your assignment( you would only get one month to finish your hours and when you did you would get your assignment separately) ( no celebration and no balloons)

A release is a celebration

The more places you volunteer the less you know about your assignment

In this chapter jonas, asher and fiona volunteered in a bathing room where

Roberto was released (jonas said he was interesting) (before someone is released the people that release them will tell their life story then there will be a toast then a goodbye speech from people who knew the person)

They also talked about edna (how when she was released they told her life story as well and as exciting as they could but she was a birth mother then she worked in food production

Questions

Why can't children watch the release

because it is a lethal injection and they don't want kids knowing that

Why are community hours so important

to help the elders choose the assignment

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Jonas told his parents that he was worried as him, his sister and his dad prepared babies for their ceremonies

They talked about how the baby that they prepared for the ceremony had light eyes just like jonas

jonas and asher played with an apple and jonas saw the apple change in mid air

he stole the apple from the recreation centre which is against the rules

lilys mom said birth mother is a bad job because you have nothing to do until you have three kids then you do manual labor

Gabe is taken into jonas family to get developed

Questions

Why are everyone's eyes dark except for a couples of people?
because the people with light eyes have different coloured eyes

Can jonas see different thing because of his eyes?
He is selected to be the receiver and he can see different thing

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Talk about the age ceremony and what it is

The dad tells the story of his 12 year ceremony and how he knew what we would get

The dad talked about the day of lilys ceremony when she was 1

He talked baby #46 and that his name was already picked and how he was worried( his name is Gabe)

The family get a baby from the ceremony of one

The most important jobs get are: The receiver and the elders

Questions

Why can't the parents pick their child's name?

Why is there a ceremony that says your age and your name?
It is for sameness and to create a family unit

What happened to animals?
they all got taken away so nothing bad would happen

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After that, Jonas doesn't want to go back to the Annex. He just wants a normal life like all of his friends.

The Giver, trying to make up for the whole warfare thing, transmits some really good memories to Jonas: a birthday party, for instance, which shows Jonas how nice it is to be singled out as an individual, instead of always the same as everyone else.

When he gets to experience riding a horse, Jonas sees how wonderful the bond between man and animal can be. When he sits beside a campfire in the dark, he knows at last the joy of solitude.

Jonas asks The Giver what his favorite memory is, adding that he doesn't have to give it away yet.

The old man, however, is happy to give away the memory. He transmits to Jonas the scene of Christmas morning.

Afterwards, he asks Jonas what he saw. Jonas talks about family, and has to ask the word for "grandparents," which he didn't know.

For the first time, Jonas comprehends that his parents have parents. He thinks about the way it works in his community, the system in place for dealing with the elderly, which he still thinks works pretty well.

Still, there was a strong emotion in the Christmas scene that he felt but could not name. He struggles for a bit, and finally The Giver tells him that it was love.

Jonas, embarrassed, expresses a wish for love in his own life. He wishes The Giver could be his grandfather. He wishes he could experience what he felt in the memory.

Although, he concedes, he recognizes that that is a very "dangerous" way to live.

When The Giver asks him to explain, however, all Jonas can come up with is a comment on the fire that was burning in the room, and the way that flames are dangerous. Although he did like the warmth…

Later, back at home, Jonas hesitantly asks his parents if they love him.

They're a bit flustered, and chuckling, they reprimand him to pay attention to "precision of language."

Jonas is confused.

His Father explains that such a word has become obsolete, meaningless even.

This confuses him further, since the emotion he felt of love was far from meaningless.

When they ask him if he understands what they mean, he says yes—which is his first lie to his parents.

That night, Gabriel's crib is still in Jonas's room. Since his parents are pleased that Jonas can get the baby to sleep through the night, they have decided to leave the crib there

In the middle of the night, Jonas whispers to Gabriel about colors and memories and grandparents and love, telling him that things could be different than they are

The next morning Jonas throws away his pill to stop the Stirrings

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At the beginning of the chapter jonas and his family unit hear that it is an unscheduled holiday and they were surprised

when this happened it was like a treat for everyone

the adults didn't have to go to work, the kids didn't have to go to school, volunteering or have to do training for that day

it did not happen very often

now it had been four weeks since jonas had taken his pills for stiring

he felt kinda bad about the pleasure that he got in his dreams

his dreams went past his dreams

he talked about his dreams and about all the colour he saw

through the memories he saw history and all of natures beauty

he felt a new feeling not one that they discused at dinner

one time lilly was upset but then he knew that she wasnt really angry

then his mother said that one day she was sad but jonas knew now that it wasn't real sadness compared to what he had felt in the memories that the giver had given him

he saw asher then he dropped his bike

when he got to the park he didn't see asher then he heard all the kids playing guns

know he knew the game was about war

when jonas was hit he just went to the middle of the crowd

then he saw the face of the boy that was dying

then jonas was like dying and he coudln's breath

asher and fiona waited until jonas was done having a heart attack

then asher got mad

but they forgave eachother

then fiona asked jonas to go on a bike ride with jonas and jonas wanted nothing more than that

jonas missed being a kid and he just wanted to be a kid again

he felt loss from his childhood and he felt as if he was losing his friends

he was ad that all of this was gone because of his assignment

he knew that they couldn't love him as much as they could he could but they couldn't get it because they didnt have the memories

at dinner they talked about how much fun lilly had with her friends and how she tried her fathers bike

then they talked about how gabe started walking and how he gay around the house because that is how he said his own name

it was a sad day

he wanted to start teaching lilly hwo to ride a bike

because her ceremony of nine was almost here

it was hard for jonas to believe that almost one year ago he started his training

jonas's father said that he wanted to go to bed early and because the twins would be born tomorrow and he said that the twins were identical

one for here one for elsewhere is what jonas's father said

he talked about how the childis released

they weight them, then then lighter one leaves he gets all clean the he gets a tiny release ceremony

lilly said "what if somebody from elsewhere took the other child then he would be named jonathan then when they were six they went to another community then there would be two jonathans that look the same then the wrong jonathan would be taken home

she talked about how what if everyone was twins and they didn't know it but there was another them

Questions

Will lilly become a storyteller

We don't find out

Is lilly onto something and that's why her father shut her up and said time for bed?

We don't find out

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Main characters: Jonas, lily (7 years old), ( they knew each other from after school daycare), asher (Jonas friend), Jonas mom(works at the department of justice)/dad(looks after babies for a living)

Pilot was released from the community (this is bad) (punishment)

they told feeling at dinner

Takes place in december

They are about to have the ceremony

Questions

Why do they tell feeling at the dinner table?
It is the law
Where are they?
The book takes place in the future

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Notes= red/pink
Chapter facts= blue
Vocabulary=yellow
Examples/long question answers =Green

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Family unit= Your assigned partner your two kids

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*Greek word meaning "anti-utopia"
*A community that is undesirable or frightening
Ex: Hell

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*Term coined by Sir Thomas More in 1516
*A community or society possessing desirable or perfect qualities
*in a utopia you cannot have all of your rights and everything you want\
Ex: Heaven, Garden of eden

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The society rules for kids are like bubble wrap parents

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Definition:How the author reveals information, its from the perspective of the narrator

Three types

First person:

Perspective of onr charecter

Look-fors - I,me,mine,myself

Advantages - inner thoughts of character

Disadvantages - Don't know everything, can't see other points of view

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 - you don't get to know all the characters

Third person - Omniscient

Narrator knows all

looks-fors - he,she,it,they,them,etc.

advantages - creates full pictures for reader

Disadvantages - we lose getting to know the characters

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Released: something bad after you do something wrong or break a law (lethal injection)

Assignment:The job you get for the rest of your life (you get it when you are 12)

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What the author id 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