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Important Information:
-Jonas is certain that "elsewhere" is close
-Snow begins to fall
-Jonas starts losing memories
-Jonas uses the memories of warmth to warm him and Gabe
-Jonas gets on a sled
-Jonas thinks he hears music

Questions: What happened to Jonas and Gabe?
Did they die?
Who was playing the music if it was music at all? Who was waiting for them?

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The most important themes in this book are  Blind Obedience and The Importance of Memory.

Firstly,  I know that Blind Obedience is one of the themes in the Giver because in the community everyone does what they are told without asking questions. For example in the book they are told what job they have to do without a choice, and the community does not ask any questions about it. I know that Blind Obedience is one of the most important themes in the Giver because no one questions anything. If the people in the community questioned everything, then the book would not make sense. For example, the community would be more of a normal community if they questioned everything.

Secondly, I know that the importance of memory is one of the themes in the Giver because no one remembers anything and look at what happened to the community. The community does not have choice simply because they do not remember what it was like to have choice. The community also seems sad because they do not truly know what true emotions are. I know that the importance of memory is one of the most important themes in the giver because if there was no receiver then there would be no place for jonas in the book and he would just be an ordinary citizen. If there were no memories then that would mean there would be no Giver to tell them not to make bad choices. For example when the elders wanted to produce 4 babies a year the Giver could not have told them about starvation.

Therefore blind obedience and the importance of memory are the most important themes in the Giver because Jonas would be an ordinary person, and they would not remember past mistakes without these two themes.

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Important information:
-The landscape keeps changing
-Jonas and Gabe start seeing animals
-Jonas runs out of food
-Jonas would use memories to help reduce the pain of hunger
-Jonas is really tired

Questions: Will Jonas die of starvation?
What about Gabe?

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Important information:
-Jonas goes home
-Jonas's dad plans on releasing Gabe
-Jonas leaves the community
-Jonas takes Gabe with him
-Planes search for them
-Finally planes dont come anymore

Questions: Did the Giver convince them that the reciver died?
Whats happening in the community right now?

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Important information:
-Jonas freaks out and doesn't want to go home
-Jonas stays at the Givers for the night
-Jonas plans to run away
-The Giver plans to tell everyone he is dead
-Jonas and the Giver save up food
-Rosemary is the Giver's daughter

Questions: What happens if they get caught? Where will joans actually be going?
where in the world is the community?

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Important information:
-Jonas watches a release
-A release is when they stick a needle into the person that is being released and they die
-Jonas did not like what he saw
-Jonas's dad throws out the body

Questions: How could Jonas's dad be so cruel?-Because he cannot feel "love" or any "pity" at all
Why would he just throw out the body when they do weird ceremonies for others?

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New characters in this Chapter: Rosemary (dead)
Important information:
-Jonas asks about a "release"
-The previous receiver was a girl
-Her name was Rosemary
-The Giver tells Jonas he loved Rosemary and loves him

Questions: Why was Rosemary so important to the Giver?-She was his daughter
Why were receivers allowed to apply for release in the first place?

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Important information:
-It is an unscheduled holiday
-The kids in the community play a fighting game
-Jonas tells the kids not to play the game anymore
-Jonas's fauther tells jonas that someone comes to get the tin from "elswhere"

Questions: What is elsewhere?-Elswhere
Why don't they have scheduled holidays?

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Important information:
-Doesn't want to be the receiver anymore
-Gets the memory of love
-Jonas learns about Grandparents
-He asks his parents if they love him
-His parents tell him not to use the word love
-Jonas's parents say they "enjoy" him but not love
-Jonas stops taking the pill

Questions:
What is going to happen now that he stopped taking the pill?-Jonas has "stirrings"
Why don't his parents love him?-Because they cannot feel love

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Important information:
-The Giver is in pain
-the Giver gives Jonas the memory of war

Questions: Why do the memories affect the Giver even after they were given to him?
Who is the other receiver?-Her name was Rosemary and she was the Givers daughter

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Important information:
-The Giver gives Jonas a memory of breaking your leg
-The pain does not go away after the memory is done
-Jonas cannot take meds for the pain
-There is a birth mother who is expecting twins
-Jonas gives Gabe a memory

Questions: How do the birthmothers have the baby in this world of "no pain"/ "sameness"?
Why can't Jonas take any meds related to training?

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Important information:
-Jonas begins to see colour in daily life
-They took away colour because they didn't want people to have choice because they did not want people to make the wrong choices
-The Giver gives Jonas the memory of an elephant that has his tusks pulled out
-Jonas finds a new perception of the colour red
-Jonas tries to get Asher to see colour
-Jonas tells Lily there are real elephants like her stuffed one
-Jonas trys to give Lily the memory of elephants
-Having a spouse is difficult because  they cannot know anything or read the books
-They need a receiver to help prevent painful situations that they had in the past
-When a receiver leaves their memories go back to the community

Questions: What is so wrong with making the wrong choice?
Why don't the memories go back to the Giver?

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Important information:
-Jonas is sad because he cannot share his experiences with the other 12's.
-Fiona's hair "changed"
-Jonas sees the colour of red
-When the Giver was becoming the receiver, he did not start off by seeing colour he saw something els.
-Jonas sees a rainbow
-There is no colour in the community

Questions: What did the Giver start off by seeing?-Muisic
Why is there no colour in the community? -Because they want everything to be the same and give no choice

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Important information:
-The Giver gives Jonas the memory of snow, hill and sled
- When a memory is given the Giver no longer has it
-They took away snow because of climate change. It made it harder to grow crops.
-They took away hills because of transportation issues.
-The Giver gives Jonas a sunburn

Questions: Why does the Giver have to give away his memories and cannot keep them?
How did they take away snow?-Because the scientists used science

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Definition
-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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Important information:
-Jonas is nervous about his first day
-There are a lot of books that may contain lots of rules
-The giver does not want him to appologize
-The Giver wants Jonas to ask questions
-The other receiver failed

Questions: Why are there so many books?
Why did the previous receiver fail? -Because she was scared

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Important information:
-Jonas is scared.
-The Elder told him it would be painful.
-Joans reads his folder.
-Jonas has very few rules
-Jonas can lie, be rude, and does not have to take the pill
-Jonas cant discuss his training with others

Questions: Why cant he discuss his training?-Because others can't let people know there is more out there
Why doesn't he have to take the pills? Why do certain rules not apply to him?-Because he is special

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Important information:
-Jonas becomes the Receiver.
-The community chants his name.

Questions:
What is the receiver?-Someone who receives memories of the past
Why do they chant his name?

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Important information:
-Jonas's number is 19.
-When Asher was little he would say "smack" instead of "snack".
-Instructors hit the kids when they were bad.
-Asher became a Director of Recreation.
-Fiona became the Caretaker of the Old.
-Joans is skipped

Questions:
Why is Jonas skipped-Because he is the receiver.
What did he do wrong?

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Important information:
-Fiona got a new brother named bruno.
-A child named caleb falls into a river and died.
-The loss of a child is very very rare.
-The community performed a ceremony where they said calebs name for the whole day less and less as the day went on.
-Lilly becomes an eight.
-Asher can't swim very well.

Questions:
Why is the ceremony they did with caleb so weird?
Why is it rare for children to die?
Why do girls have to wear hair ribbons?

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Important information:
-family's tell eachother their dreams they had every morning. it was called "the morning ritual".
-Jonas had a dream he could actually remember
-Dream telling began at three's.
-Everyone has "stirrings" or a "wanting".
-People take pills to cure his "stirrings".

Questions:
What does the pills really do?
Why do you stop taking them when you go to the house of old?

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New Characters in this chapter: Fiona & Larissa
-Jonas bathes an old woman named Larissa.
-Ash & Fiona bathe other old people too.
-Only the young and the old can see each other in their "nude".
-Kids are not allowed to see the release of the old.

Questions:
Why can't kids see the release of the old?-Because they do not want kids to see that they kill people
Why do kids have to bathe the old?
Why are kids allowed to bathe the old? (they shouldn't be able to because it is really messed up)

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New Characters in this story: Gabriel

Important information:
-Being a birth mother has very little honor.
-The apple changes.
-Jonas gets in trouble.

Questions: Why does everyone have dark eyes except Jonas and the other girl?
Why does everyone have light eyes
How does the apple "change" -Jonas starts to see colour

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Important information:
-The father of Jonas is breaking rules.
-Everyone knows how to ride bikes.
-A receiver is the most important elder.
-The ceremony of 12 is the last ceremony.
-Everyone is given an assignment at the ceremony 12.

Questions: Why is their comfort object taken away?
Why don't the parents have the choice to name their kid

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Definition
-How the author reveals information
-From the perspective of the narrator
First Person
-Perspective of one Character
-Look-for-I, Me, Mine, Myself
-Advantages-Inner thoughts of character
-Disadvantages-????
Third Person-Limited
-Narrator can "see" many characters but not everything
-Look-for- He, She, It, They, Them, etc.
-Advantages- Can still create suspense
-Disadvantages-????
Third Person-Omniscient
-Narrator knows all
-Look-for-He, She, It, They, Them, etc
-Advantages-Creates full picture for reader
-Disadvantages-????

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Main Characters in this Chapter: Jonas, Lily, Mom & Dad of Jonas and Lily, Asher.
Important information:
-  There are no animals.
-  Being released is a bad thing.

Thoughts:
This book reminds me of the movie Divergent.

Questions:
Why can there only be 2 children 1 male and 1 female in each unit?
Where do the people go when they are when they are realised? -They go to heaven/Hell