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- The road's were bumpy and narrow with no more road crews on the road
- It was harder for Jonas to balance his bike, the front wheel kept shook over the rocks and stones
- Jonas twisted his ankle and his knees were scraped, this journey had been very rough for him
- There was more trees, forests, and frequently more streams so Jonas would take a minute to wash his knees, and take a small sip of water
- Gabe told Jonas that there was a plane in the sky but it had turned out to be a bird in the sky
- Jonas and Gabe saw so many animals, for example deer, birds, and other animals but Jonas didn't know there name
- In the twelves year that he had spent in his community he had never felt such simple moments happiness
- Jonas and Gabe finished their food and it was really hard to find food in the wild but now they were always hungry
- Jonas tried to catch a bird and a fish for him and Gabe to eat but he was unsuccessful
- He tried to recreate memories with big feasts but when the memory glimpses subsided he was left hungry and starving
- Jonas was thinking that if he stayed in the community and not decided to leave he would never be foodless, and thought that he shouldn't of left
- But then he thought that if he stayed he would be starving in other ways meaning that he would have lived a life hungry for color, feelings, for love and Gabe's choice had been made for him, getting released
- It kept getting harder and harder for Jonas to ride his bike because he was getting weak by the lack of food, and then he relaized that he would be encountering hills
- It rained for two days that Jonas and Gabe were biking, then the sunshine would follow
- Gabe was very good and didn't cry for the long journey expect for now when he was hungry, cold, wet and very weak
- Jonas no longer cared about himself, he cared that Gabe would be save

New Questions:
53. What did Jonas's parents feel when he left?
54. Did the Giver help the community with the Jonas's memories that they received when he left?

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I feel like the most important theme in the Giver was Self - Discovery. Throughout the text Jonas was discovering more and more about his community and why it wasn't right. He wanted to make different choices then what the community's choices were. At the end of the text, Jonas reached his own destiny by fleeing the community and going somewhere else. He discovered that his community was based to a wrong society.  For example, if a birthmother has twins, then the twin that weighs less is released which in this community means a needle goes into the twin which kills them. Another example from the text is, at the age of Twelve they are given a assignment which is their job for the rest of their lives. This means that they don't get a choose their job it's selected for them. Also, if they want a husband or wife, they have to apply for one. They don't get to choose one themselves. But Jonas making the decision to leave his community shows that Jonas made his own choices and went down his own path and didn't follow the community.

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I think that Jonas was having a dream at the end of the book. When he reached the top of the of the hill, he fells down and just starts dreaming because it says that he felt himself loss consciousness. Also, another reason why I believe that Jonas was dreaming at the end of the book because the Giver didn't give Jonas the memory of music, (Jonas thought the Giver to keep it for himself) and if the Giver didn't give Jonas that memory how could he have heard the music. Therefore, I believe that Jonas was having a dream at the end of the book.

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

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

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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

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Topic - Self - Discovery:
-People must be able to make choices to reach their own destiny / fulfillment.

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Theme:
- What the author is trying to say about people, society, etc

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- Jonas felt that he was coming close to finding his destination
- He saw only saw a endless road, heard no sounds
- Gabe was sudden very cold so Jonas decided to tie Gabe around himself with another blanket
- Then Jonas saw snow, snowflakes fell down from the sky
- Then a hill, a difficult hill to ride with all the snow and the narrow road
- But his bike wouldn't move even when he pedalled the bike so he decided to got off the bike
- He didn't know if he still had any memories, or if all the memories were with the community now
- He didn't know if Gabe could receive memories still
- He tried to give Gabe the memory of sunshine but nothing seemed to work at first, then he felt tiny waves of heat and thought to keep it for himself but decided to give it to Gabe instead
- He began to walk up the hill, he couldn't feel his feet anymore and the hill become very steep
- He fell, then tried to get up again with Gabe and he was able to began climbing again
- He kept feeling colder and tried to use the warmth from his memory to warm him and Gabe
- Jonas was exhausted, tired, numb, cold, and his legs wer freezing
- they were almost at the top of the hill, and Jonas felt happy, then the happy memories came rushing into him
- Finding the strength and courage, he got up the hill and started to remember this hill
- Jonas found the sled and started riding down the hill with Gabe
- As they were going downhill, all of a sudden Jonas could see lights, they were shining by the windows of rooms, that were red, blue, yellow lights that came from a tree where families shared their memories and love
- AS they kept going downhill faster and faster Jonas was certain that him and Gabe were going to a place with joy, and love
- he heard music for the first time

Answers to Previous Questions:
50. I believe that the Giver and Jonas plan to escape the community worked, but i think that at the end of the book Jonas isn't quite there yet.

New Questions:
55. Did Jonas and Gabe find the everywhere else?
56. Is Jonas just dreaming?

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- Jonas was learning through the memories
- he keep getting glimpses of colors
- green - the landscape lawn and a bush on the riverbank
- bright orange - pumpkins
- but in an instant they would be gone, his glimpses of colors
- The Giver told Jonas that it would take awhile before the colors stayed
- Jonas thought that it wasn't fair that everything's the same and there aren't any choices
- the problem with having choices in this community was that the people could make the wrong choices and that could lead to a bad decision
- Jonas tried to transmit the memory of red to Asher by Asher didn't understand it and thought that it was weird
- The Giver gave Jonas a disturbing memory
- He could hear guns, see a thick area of vegetation
- he could also see people with different color skin going towards a helpless elephant
- Then Jonas watched as they pulled the tusks off the elephant
- Another elephant came out of the trees and walked towards the body and put his trunk on the body and left
- At Jonas's dwelling, Jonas tells Lily that there were real elephants not just like her stuffed elephant but Lily doesn't believe him
- Jonas tries to give her the memory of an elephant but instead ending up hurting her
- Jonas asked the Giver if he had a spouse and the Giver said yes but it's very diffcult
- His spouse lives with the Childless Adults
- if Jonas ever has a spouse and kids he won't be able to share his job or the books
- When Jonas will become the New Receiver he will be given different rules to obey
- When the Old Receiver failed all of her memories were released back to the community
- Some says the Giver tells Jonas to come back tomorrow because he was in pain
- On those days Jonas would be alone walking beside the river, testing his memory
- One day Jonas asked the Giver what was causing him so much pain and he asked if he could help and take some of that pain so that the Giver would have less pain
- The Giver told Jonas to lie down and they would start with a familiar memory, a sled on the hill

New Questions:
34. Did the Giver and his spouse have any children?
35. How was Jonas feel when the Giver tells Jonas that if he has children or a spouse, he wouldn't be allowed to share his books or work?

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- Main characters: Jonas, Lily, Asher, Jonas's parents
- story takes place in december
- At dinner, everyone has to share their feelings, it was a ritual
-  they live in a community where they have very different rules
- Jonas´s dad worked as a nurturer  and his mother worked for the department of justice
- a family unit consist of two children - one dad - one mom
- at the beginning of the book, the Pilot is released
- Jonas´s father talks about his new child who is bad and needs extra care

Questions:
1. Why did Jonas call his friends and sister by their age? Example from the text - " who was much younger - only a Seven" .
2. Why do they call their jobs ¨titles¨?
3. Why are their so many rules for this community?
4.  Why is Jonas worried about ¨The Ceremony of Twelve¨?
5. What is  ¨The Ceremony of Twelve¨?
6. Why are there so many ceremonies?
7. What happens when someone gets ¨released¨?
8. Why can´t their be more people in a family unit?

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- It was the night that Jonas was going to leave the community but that evening meal changed everything
- The night Jonas stayed at the Annex with the Giver, Gabe stayed at the Nurturing Center to see if he could sleep without Jonas around, but it didn't go well
- Gabe cried all night and the night crew couldn't handle it
- So the they made a decision for Gabe to be released first thing tomorrow morning
- Even Jonas's father voted for the release  of Gabe
- Jonas was fleeing the community he thought of all the rules he was breaking
- The first rule he broke, he was out of his dwelling at night
- The second rule he broke, he stole some of the community's food
- The third rule he broke, he stole his father's bike
- Jonas took Gabe with him
- Gabe was sound asleep because Jonas transmitted him a memory of a slow swinging hammock under palm trees to make sure that Gabe wouldn't make a peep while escaping the community
- He rode for miles
- When at was dawn, Jonas gave Gabe water from the stream and some food that they both shared
- The hardest part about this journey was the planes that passed by at night
- The planes were aircraft searchers looking if anyone was walking around at night when there suppose to be in their dwelling
- Jonas and Gabe would have to go right to the ground as soon as a plane would come by to unsure that they wouldn't get caught
- The planes used heat - seeking devices which means it could see a person's body warmth
- Whenever he heard a plane he would transmit the memory of snow to Gabe and keep some for himself
-  Then the planes kept coming less and less. One day they didn't even come at all

New Questions:
51. What did Jonas find so special in Gabe that he wanted to take with him? (yes, I know that Gabe was going to get released but why did Jonas take him instead someone else)
52. If Jonas and Gabe make it to another community will they be welcomed?

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- Jonas wanted to stay with the Giver instead of going to this house because of the release he had watched
- The Giver told Jonas he could stay but he would have to notify Jonas's family
- Therefore Jonas decided to stay with the Giver for the night instead of his family unit
- The Giver told Jonas there was nothing they could do because it's the way they live
- After the Giver and Jonas eat their evening meal, they were going to make a plan, a plan is change things
- The Giver told Jonas that there might be a way for things to change
- Later that night all they did was talk and talk, Jonas being wrapped in a robe that belonged to the Giver, the robe was long like the ones that Elders wore
- The Giver and Jonas made a plan, that included Jonas running away from the community
- The Giver told Jonas that when he left there was no coming back, and all the memories that Jonas that would all go back to the community, and the Giver wouldn't go with Jonas
- When Rosemary left ten years ago, and all of her memories came back to the community everyone panicked, and when the memories return back to the community if Jonas leaves the Giver can help the community with the memories
- Jonas wanted the Giver to come with him but the Giver knew he had to stay
- Jonas said that they will just find another Receiver but the Giver told him that there was no one else with the right qualities that are required for the selection
- Then Jonas said that there is another child with pale eyes and she is a female, her name is Katherine, but the Giver told him that she was too young (only being a Six)
- The Giver could no longer see colors and that broke Jonas heart because the Giver was becoming very weak now
- Jonas reminded the Giver that when he was just a twelve and started training with the Giver, the Giver said it was different for him
- When the Giver was a little boy he had the capacity to hear - beyond, meaning he could hear music and the Giver said that he would give some of it to Jonas before he left, but Jonas wanted the Giver to have that memeory
- Then Jonas went back to his house and he got greeted by his parents
- The Giver and Jonas went over the plan over and over again the night before
- Then every time Jonas went to see the Giver, he would transfer every memory he had of being courageous, and strength for the next two weeks as the Ceremony approached
- Jonas decided that the night of the Ceremony he would leave the community, but if he would caught it wouldn't be a good thing because it was a rule that any citizen is not on official business to leave a dwelling at night
- Then he would take some extra clothes and his bike and hide it in the bushes near the riverbank and then walk to the Annex to see the Giver. The door for the Annex would be unlocked so he could get in
- In the morning, Jonas's parents would find him not in the house but find a cheerfully note saying that he just went for a early morning bike ride along the riverbank, and would be for the Ceremony
- Since Jonas wouldn't be back his parents would just go to the Ceremony with Lily and without him and his parents wouldn't tell anyone because it would reflect as his parents being bad parents
- The Giver would get something for Jonas to get away in and the Giver also has saved up food from his meals for Jonas to take with him
-  Rosemary was the Giver's daughter

Prediction:
I think that Jonas might also be the Giver's child because of his eyes. Since Rosemary had pale eyes like the Giver and she was the Giver's daughter, Jonas might be his son because Jonas did have pale eyes like both of them.

Answers to Previous Questions:
34. The Giver had a spouse, and a daughter. All we know about the Giver's spouse in that she in now in the house of Childless Adults. Rosemary, the Old Receiver who failed was the Giver's daughter. If the Giver had a son, the author never told us.

New Questions:
48. Was Jonas the Giver's son?
49. What did Jonas feel when the Giver said that Rosemary was his daughter?
50. Will Jonas and the Giver's plan for Jonas to escape really work?

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- Today Jonas dad was releasing one of the twins
- The Giver told Jonas that when he is the new Receiver, he will have access to everything
- He will able to watch releasing happening, read books
- Jonas say that he wished he could see the release and the Giver says that he can show him the release
- The Giver asked his speaker if he could see this morning release and then Jonas was watching the release
- Jonas saw a small empty room with a bed and some equipment
- Jonas recognized the scale that he had seen before when he did his volunteer hours like the Nurturing Center
- then Jonas's father came into the room in his nurturing uniform cradling one of the tiny newchild in a soft blanket, and then a women came into the room holding the other tiny newchild in a similar blanket
- they were both male
- his father weighed one and then the other
- one of them was six pounds, and the other one was five pounds
- the women took the newchild that weighed the most and cleaned him up and dressed him back to the Center
- Jonas's father keep the newchild that weighed the least and gave him a needle
- He placed the needle into the top of the newchild's forehead
- Then Jonas thought that his father was going to wrap the child up & get him ready for the ceremony because that's what his father said was going to happen but the newchild just lay there motionless
- Jonas finally realized that the newchild was dead and that his father killed him
- Jonas watched as his father put the body into a carton and put the carton down a small door in the wall
- The Giver told Jonas that when the Speaker said that Rosemary applied for release, the tape played and the Giver watched Rosemary's release
- He said that she asked if she could inject herself and she did but the Giver couldn't watch
- That's how release happens
- Release = Dies
- Jonas felt a ripping feeling inside of himself, the feeling of a terrible pain trying to get its way to come out and cry

Answers to Previous Questions:
7. When members of the community are released they get a needle in one of their veins (most likely in the vein in their arm, unless they're a newchild in that case they get a needle in their forehead) and die.

New Questions:
46. Why did Jonas's father lie to him?
47. Isn't Jonas's father breaking the rules because in the community it's a rule that they aren't allowed to lie?

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- The Giver is not allowed to request for a release until the next Receiver is trained
- If Jonas fell into the river, The Giver would try and help the community because all the memories
- Jonas asked about the failure of the Receiver ten years ago
- she was a female, her name was Rosemary
- She only was the Receiver in training for five weeks
- She asked for difficult  memories to go with the happy ones that he gave her
- Some of the happy memories he gave her was a ride on a merry - go - round. a kitten to play with, a picnic
- He didn't give her the memory of war, or physical pain, he gave her the memory of loneliness, a child being taken from its parents
- Everything had changed once he had given her pain
- She wanted him to continue to give her the bad memories but he couldn't give her physical pain
- Instead he gave her memories of poverty, hunger, and terror
- Then one afternoon after they had been done a very hard session, she got up kissed the Giver on the cheek and walked away
- She left that day for good, she didn't go back to her dwelling (house), she went right to the Chief Elder to be released
- it wasn't against the rules because it hadn't been a rule when she was in training to be the next Receiver, they made that rule to make sure that it would never happen again
- When Rosemary was gone all the memories that she had went back to the community and the people received them
- Although most the memories were good ones, there were a few bad ones

Answers to Previous Questions:
26. The name of the other Receiver in training was Rosemary
27. Rosemary the other Receiver who was training to be the New Receiver applied for release after getting memories that left her feeling lonely, the memory of a child being taken away from it's parents, poverty, hunger and terror

New Questions:
44. What did Rosemary's family feel when she had left?
45. How did Jonas feel about the failure of the Receiver?

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- Today was an unscheduled holiday
- This was very rare
- he hadn't took his pill for his Stirrings in four weeks
- He didn't want to go back to a world with no feeling
- he could see all the colours now
- Trees, grass, bushes were green, Gabe's rosy cheeks were pink, and the apples were always red
- In his memories while sleeping, he had seen oceans, mountain lakes, streams and rivers
- Jonas realized that he was experiencing a new depth of feelings
- Jonas rode his bike to the park to find Asher
- He found Asher at the park playing with a group of kids, Fiona was playing too
- They were playing a game where there were good guys and bad guys, Jonas called the game like war
- Then Jonas had a sudden choking feeling, struggling not to cry
- All the children left the field where they were playing because of Jonas and only Fiona and Asher were left
- Jonas and Asher got into a fight
- Fiona asked Jonas to go to a bike ride together but Jonas said no and Asher and Fiona left
- Gabe called himself ''Gay'' as his name
- He had started walking just one week before
- The Ceremony of the Nines would be coming soon and Lily would become a Nine and receive a bike
- Jonas thought about the idea of teaching Lily how to ride a bike before the Ceremony
- It had almost been a year since he became a Twelve
- Lily's mother tells Lily that she could become a Storyteller when she becomes a Twelve
- Jonas's father tells the family about the twins and how one has to get released
- Jonas's father describes that released as

New Questions:
42.. Will Jonas teach Lily how to ride a bike before the Ceremony?
43. How was Jonas feeling when he and Asher got into a fight about the game that Asher had been playing?

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- Jonas didn't want to go back to the Annex
- He didn't want the memories, the honor, the wisdom, the pain
- He wanted his childhood back
- But still he returned each day to the Annex for his training
- The Giver gave Jonas happier memories for the next few days after giving him the horrible memory of war
- The Giver gave him, the memory of a birthday party, the memory of a museum, the memory of riding a horse and the memory of the woods and a campfire
-  Then the Giver gave Jonas the memory he loved the most, the memory of Grandparents
- After all the children leave a dwelling and get their own, the parents go live with all the other Childless adults and won't be part of their children's lives anymore
- Then they will go to The House Of the Olds
- Jonas couldn't get the word for the whole feeling of it
- Love, the word for the whole feeling
- Jonas liked the feeling of love
- Jonas asked his parents if they loved him, and his parents said no because in the community that word was so meaningless
- His parents told him if he asked these questions they would say yes, '' Do you enjoy me'' and Do you take pride in my accomplishments?''
- Then he lied to his parents after they asked him if he understood why it was inappropriate to use the word ''love''
- Gabe slept in Jonas's room again
- Gabe was starting to grow up, he was starting to crawl, giggle and he was starting to pull himself to stand
- Each night Jonas gave Gabe memories, the memory of boat rides, picnics, the memory of soft rainfall against windowpanes, and memories of dancing barefoot on a damp lawn
- Jonas decided to not take his pill for the Stirrings

Answers to Previous Questions:
36. Gabriel has continued to sleep in Jonas's room and Jonas's continues to give him memories to go to sleep more soundly.

New Questions:
40.
41.

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- Jonas realized that the Giver was in pain and asked if he could do anything to help and the Giver asked Jonas if he could take some of his pain
- This memory was full of pain
- The air was thick with smoke, around him was a long field with men laying everywhere
- then a boy asked Jonas for water and Jonas looked at the boy who didn't seem much older then him with dirt covering his face
- Jonas saw blood coming out of the boy's chest and sleeve
- One of Jonas's arms was unable to move and he could see flesh and a splintery bone through his tore sleeve
- Jonas reached for a metal container and poured the remaining water into the boy's mouth
- but then the boy's head fell back and a dull blankiness fell across his eyes
- the sounds continued, he heard cries from wounding men, begging for water and the canons
- then he learned what war was
- Jonas couldn't take the memory any longer and opened his eyes

Answers to Previous Questions:
30. No, the memory of the sunburn wasn't near as bad as the memory Jonas received in this chapter (the memory of war).

New Questions:
38. How did that memory make Jonas feel?
39. What was going through the Giver's head when he decided to give Jonas this awful memory?

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- Jonas went to school but school didn't feel the same
- At breaks for recreation periods and midday meals, all the Twelves were talking about their training
- Jonas couldn't share his training with anyone because it was in his folder
- After school hours Jonas and Fiona rode their bikes to their assignment places
- Just like Fiona promised she waited for Jonas yesterday but since his training what longer then expected, so she waited but then it got late so she went home
- It happened again ; Jonas saw beyond
- First it was the apple, then it was the faces in the audience at the Auditorium, now it was Fiona's hair
- Jonas asked the Giver about it
- Jonas was beginning to see the colour red, that's what the change was
- The Giver was going to give Jonas the memory of a rainbow

Answers to Previous Questions:
12. Jonas was beginning to see the color red. When the apple changed while he was playing catch with Asher, he must of saw a quick look of red.

New Questions:
32.  Did Jonas feel weird when all of the other Twelves were talking about their training and he couldn't because in his rules he couldn't share his training?
33.

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- The Old Receiver was touching Jonas's body and Jonas was feeling very cold
- Jonas could see and touch the snow
- He was sitting on a sled and the sled was going downhill
- Jonas opened his eyes to see that he was still lying on the bed with the Old Receiver next to him
- Whenever the Old Receiver gave Jonas a memory that memory left the Receiver's memory
- The Old Receiver gave Jonas a memory of sunshine but didn't tell Jonas what it was ahead of time
- Jonas asked the Old Receiver about the part of the pain of the training
- The Receiver told Jonas to lie down one more time
- Jonas was in the sun again, and he knew that it was only one or two minutes  but his other self, the memory receiving self felt like he spent hours in the sun
- Then he felt a sting in his skin and then he felt a sharp pain in the crease of his inner arm, at the elbow
- Jonas couldn't get the word out of that memory but he sure did feel the pain
- The word was sunburn
- The Old Receiver told Jonas to call him The Giver

New Questions:
30. Would Jonas receive more painful pain then just a sunburn in his training to become the New Receiver?
31.

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- Jonas and Fiona go to their assignments together
- Fiona goes into the House of the Olds and Jonas goes into the Annex
- The Annex's doors were locked and so were the doors so the Receiver's  room
- The Receiver's room looked like this house
- The biggest difference from Jonas's house to the Receiver's room was their were so many books, most that Jonas had never seen before
- In Jonas's house he only had a dictionary, a thick community volume, and the Book of Rules
- Jonas met the man he saw at the Ceremony
- The Receiver had pale eyes just like Jonas
- The Receiver job is important and has enormous honor and respect
- The Old Receiver's job is to transmit to the New Receiver which in this case is Jonas all the memories that he has, which are memories of the past
- It's not the Old Receiver's memories that he is transmit to Jonas, it's the memories of the whole world
- The Old Receiver is going to transmit the memory of snow to Jonas

New Questions:
28. What is going through Jonas's head?
29. How was Jonas feeling about meeting the Receiver and knowing all the memories of the world?

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- Jonas felt separated, different and alone
- Tonight the new Twelves would be studying the instructions for the begininng of their training,
- They would also begin to memorize the rules for their adult assignments
- Lily told her parents that she would begin her volunteer hours at the Nurturing Center
- Jonas noticed that a lot of the other new Twelve's folders were thick and full of pages but his was close to empty and only had one paper in it
- That paper was the rules of the Receiver of Memory
Rules:
1. Go immediately at the end of school hours each
day to the Annex entrance behind the House of the
Old and present yourself to the attendant.

2. Go immediately to your dwelling at the con-
clusion of Training Hours each day.

3. From this moment you are exempted from rules
governing rudeness. You may ask any question of
any citizen and you will receive answers.
4. Do not discuss your training with any other
member of the community, including parents and
Elders.
5. From this moment you are prohibited from
dream-telling.
6. Except for illness or injury unrelated to your
training, do not apply for any medication.
7. You are not permitted to apply for release.
8. You may lie.

New Questions:
24. How many people have applied to get released?
25 Was this assignment less training then the rest of the assignments?
26. What was the name of the other receiver who failed?
27. What happened to the other receiver?

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- The Chief Elder told Jonas to come to the stage
- She told him that he wasn't assigned, but that he was selected
- Jonas has been selected to be the next Receiver of Memory and such selection is very rare in his community
- There was only one Receiver in the community and they have had the same one for a long time
- The Receiver - in - training cannot be observed but  has to be alone and apart while he is preparing by the current Receiver
- In his community Reciver is the most honored job
- To be a Receiver you have to have Intelligence, Integrity, Courage, Wisdom and The Capacity to See Beyond
- He said he could do the job and just like that he would train to be the next Receiver of Memory

Answers to Previous Questions:
17. Jonas was selected to be the next Receiver of Memory.
19. He wasn't given an assignment when he was supposed to because Jonas selection was very important and the Chief Elder wanted to keep it until all the other assignments were given.
20. Jonas wasn't released.

New Questions:
22. How was Jonas feeling about getting this very important assignment?
23. How was his parents feeling?

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Third Person - Omniscient:
- Narrator knows all
- Look - for - he, she, it, they, them, etc
- Advantages - Creates the full picture for reader
- Disadvantages - Miss out on the inner working

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Third Person - Limit:
- Narrator can ¨see¨ many characters but not everything
- Look - for - he, she, it, they, them, etc
- Advantages - Can still create suspense
- Disadvantages - Don´t get the full picture

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First person:
- Perspective of one character
- Looks - for - I, me, mine, myself
- Advantages - Inner thougths of character
- Disadvantages - Don´t have the complete picture

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Point of View:
- How the author reveals information
- From the perspective of the narrator

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- It was time for the Ceremony of Twelves
They arranged Jonas´s group but their original numbers, the ones they had been given to at birth
- After Naming no one called them by their numbers but every child knew their number
- Jonas was Nineteen which meant he had been the nineteenth one born in his year
- Whatever original number they were given was the number that they would receive their assignment
- Asher was Four and Fiona was Eighteen
- Asher's assignment was Assistant of Director of Recreation
- Fiona's assignment was Caretaker of the Old
- The Chief Elder skipped his number and went from Eighteen to Twenty
- Jonas thought it was a mistake but he knew that the Chief Elder made no mistakes, especially not at the Ceremony of Twelves
- The Chief Elder continued to call out each number
- Everyone was confused or worried about why Jonas´s number wasn't called

Answers to Prevouis Questions:
18. Jonas was ready to go to the Ceremony of Twelves to find out what his assignment would be. The suspense was killing him.

New Questions:
19. Why wasn´t Jonas given an assignment?
20. Was he going to be released?
21. What are his parents feeling and thinking?

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- Today was the day of the Ceremonies
- Fours, Fives and SIxes wore their jackets fastened down the back so they would learn interdependence
- Sevens got a front - button, so they would learn indepence
- Eights received a jacket that had pockets, identifying the mature enough to hold their own small belongings
- The Eights also started their volunteer hours for the first time
- Nines got a bicycle, meaning a symbol of moving gradually out of the community
- Tens got their hair snipped off neatly into it´s digustuish cut, for example the girls got their braids cut off and the boys got their long hair cut off and onto a short hair style just exposing their ears
- Gabe wasn't at the Ceremony because he was given another year of nurturing before the Naming and Placement
- Jonas´s mother asked the committee on Gabe's behalf to be given an another year, or else he would be released from the community instead the committee granted Gabe an another year
- People who were released were sent somewhere else and never returned to the community
- Asher has a sister named Phillipa, and Fiona got a new brother named Bruno
- Jonas was in the second day of ceremonies and Lily was in the first day

Answers to Previous Questions:
12. Gabe will not be released, he was given another year of Nurturing before the Ceremony of Ones.

New Questions:
16. Was Lily happy to become a Eight?
17. What was Jonas's assignment going to be?
18. What is Jonas´s feeling about going into the Ceremony of Twelves?

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- In the morning ritual, the family shares their dreams
- Jonas has this dream, and his mother tells him it´s a Stirrings and that everytime he has a dream like that, he has to report it
- Jonas´s mother gives him a pill to make them go away
- Everyone in Jonas community, (expect for the small children) takes these pills until they end up in the House of the Olds
- Asher, Jonas´s friend already takes these pills

New Questions:
14. Why can't the community have these feelings?
15. How did Jonas feel being like the rest of the boys his age?

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- Jonas helps out at the House of the Olds with his friends Asher and Fiona
- Jonas and his friends help in the bathing room, where volunteers bath the Olds
- Jonas was talking to Larissa the Old he was bathing and she was telling him about a release
- In the morning, they celebrated a release of Roberto, and before they released him they told his whole life

New Questions:
13. How many times has Jonas volunteered at the House of the Olds?

Prediction:
- I think Jonas´s assignment when he gets to be a Twelve, it be a caretaker for the Olds because when he was at the House of the Olds and he views it as relaxing and safe.
- I think Fiona's assignment when she gets to be a Twelve, it be a caretaker of the Olds because she enjoys volunteering at the House of the Olds.

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Main Character: Gabe newchild
- Gabe has pale eyes just like Jonas
- Gabe is not developing as well as the rest of the newchilds so he needs extra help and if he doesn't develop in time he will be released
- Jonas´s family was looking after the newchild that Jonas´s father was taking about in chapter 1
- if you get the assignment Birthmother, where after three births, they do labour the rest of their live and don´t even get to see the child they give birth to
- Jonas noticed a change in the apple when he and  Asher were throwing it around
- Jonas brought the apple home with him and then there was an announcement not specifically directed for Jonas but it was about snacks being eaten

New Questions:
11. Will the newchild be released?
12. What was Jonas seeing in the apple?

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- During the Ceremony of the Ones, they join a family unit
- In the ceremony of twelve, the elders of this community pick the ¨elevens¨ assignments
- Jonas´s father knew his title before the ceremony because he was always spending time with the newchildren
- Most ages in this communtiy had different rules, for example ¨ when you´re becoming an Eight, your comfort toy was taken away¨. I still sleep with my stuffed animals and almost fourteen.
- That means that Lily was soon going to lose her stuffed elephant because that was her comfort toy
- Sometimes the rules are broke, for example children that are under the age of 9 aren't allowed to ride a bike, but most children brake that rule because their older brothers and sisters teach them

Answers to Previous Questions:
1. I think they got called by their age because at certain ages they have different ceremonies.
4. Jonas was worried about the Ceremony of Twelves because at that ceremonie they recieve their assignment which is their job for the rest of their life.
5. ¨The Ceremony of Twelve¨ is a ceremonie where they get told their titles or jobs as we call them. The Elders who pick their titles watch the Elevens and decide what title their going to have.
6. There are so many ceremonies because at every age, they have a ceremony and celebrate every child moving on to the next age.

New Questions:
9 Why can´t the people in this community pick their own titles?
10. How do you become an Elder?

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Dystopia:
- a community or society that is undesirable or frightening
- Examples of Dystopia:
- Hell

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Utopia:
- a community or society possessing desirable or perfect qualities
- in order in have the perfect community or society you have to lose some rights
Examples of Utopia:
- Garden of Eden
- Heaven
- Nirvana

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Heaven is a word that many of us likely use without thinking too hard about its actual biblical meaning and the implications of its reality.

Culture has conditioned us to think about heaven as "the better place" people go to when they die, a place where chubby little angels flit about and every day is like a beautiful spring day.

While some of these things are based on what the Bible actually tells us about heaven, looking deeper into what the Bible reveals to us about this place will help to increase our faith and encourage us to look forward to this place God has prepared for us.

In his article for The Gospel Coalition titled " Is There Proof of Heaven? " Matt Smethurst notes that it takes conscious effort and attention to scripture to view heaven correctly. It is easy to begin thinking about heaven as a sort of fictional place if we simply listen to what culture tells us about it.

Although the existence of heaven cannot be proven by the scientific method or by mathematical logic, Christians believe in its reality because we believe the truth of God's Word which so clearly speaks of heaven. Belief in heaven, like belief in God requires faith; nevertheless, it is not a blind faith.

Hebrews 11:1 says that "Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."

The words "assurance" and "conviction" are strong words, suggesting that this faith is based on a sound foundation.

So, what does the Bible really say about heaven and why is it important to know what it says on this subject?

In the Crosswalk.com article " 3 Sobering Reasons Why You Should Study Heaven," Chip Ingram and Lance Witt note that "We are commanded to think about heaven. It's not just a good suggestion or a nice idea."

Ingram and Witt then go on to quote Colossians 3:1-2: "Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things."

So, what are we to "set our minds on" when it comes to heaven?

Smethurst discusses a few important things God's Word says about heaven.

Firstly, heaven is a real place, not just a concept or state of mind. When we pray the Lord's Prayer, we say "Our Father who is in heaven" ( Matt. 6:9), reminding us that heaven is God's dwelling place.

Heaven is also the place where our treasure should be stored up ( Matt. 19:21), the place of our true citizenship ( Phil. 3:20), the place of our inheritance ( 1 Pet. 1:4-5), and the place of our stored-up hope ( Col. 1:5).

Smethurst, as well as Ingram and Witt, note that chubby cherubs, people floating around on clouds, angels playing golden harps, and other similar cultural pictures of heaven only obscure the true glories of heaven.

Smethurst says that in heaven, "We'll be running and working and playing and singing and working and laughing and resting and reveling in the endless wonders of good and beautiful God." It will be like the best times on Earth, but without sadness, without grief, without fear. We will always be with God, and Revelation 21:4 tells us that God will "wipe away every tear from their eyes."

The truth about heaven should also inspire in God's children a longing for it. We have likely felt this longing at times when we realize even on the best days, even with all the wealth, all the success, all the blessings we can achieve and be bestowed with in this life on Earth, there is a part of us that yearns for something still more fulfilling.

C. S. Lewis once said that "If we find in ourselves a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world."

We are told in scripture that this other world will be better than anything we have ever experienced here on Earth. For those who believe in Jesus, the promise of heaven is nothing short of rejoicing in the presence of God forever.

Photo courtesy: Thinkstockphotos.com

Publication date: April 6, 2016

Veronica Neffinger is the editor of ChristianHeadlines.com

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How Can We be Sure Heaven is a Real Place?

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Heaven is a word that many of us likely use without thinking too hard about its actual biblical meaning and the implications of its reality. Culture has conditioned us to think about heaven as "the better place" people go to when they die, a place where chubby little angels flit about and every day is like a beautiful spring day.

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Last year I interviewed Robin Parry, author of the book The Evangelical Universalist (which he wrote under the pseudonym "Gregory MacDonald"). During the interview, Robin observed that Christians should want universalism to be true. Indeed, he put the point rather provocatively when he declared,

"You'd have to be a psychopath not to want [universalism] to be true."

Psychopath?! That's mighty strong language, isn't it? But as provocative as that statement might sound, Parry pointed out that Calvinist philosopher Paul Helm agrees on the main point: Christians should want universalism to be true.
If you want to see folk damned, there is something wrong with you
Nor is Helm the only defender of eternal conscious torment to make this point. With the publication of Knowing God in 1973, J.I. Packer quickly established himself as one of the foremost conservative Calvinist theologians and a staunch defender of doctrines like penal substitution and eternal conscious torment. As conservative as he is, even Packer makes the following declaration: "If you want to see folk damned, there is something wrong with you!" (Revelations of the Cross (Hendrickson, 1998), 163).

If, as Packer suggests, you shouldn't want to see anybody damned, then it logically follows that you should want to see them all saved. And wanting to see all people saved entails wanting universalism to be true.

This leaves us with an interesting situation in which all agree that proper Christian character requires that we hope universalism is true even as (according to traditionalists like Helm and Packer) we are to believe it isn't. That's awkward for the traditionalist ... but it gets worse.
How eternal conscious torment undermines Christian character
As my interview with Robin continued to unfold, he then addressed the underlying tension between the doctrine of eternal conscious torment and the moral character formation of the Christian. Robin explained it like this:

"Someone said to me, 'Oh, I believe that hell is tormenting people forever. I don't have a problem with that.' And I think when you first come across this view, if you're an ordinary human being, you would have a problem with that unless there's something really wrong with you, something seriously in terms of your moral compass. So then you have a theological system where you have to try and desensitize yourself to this. And there is a real problem of a theological system that actually, rather than cultivating virtue in your attitudes and so on, cultivates attitudes that are actually vicious."

Now this is a really important point, one that is worth camping out on. As Parry points out here, the doctrine of eternal conscious torment (i.e. the doctrine that the damned will suffer unimaginable retributive punishment in body and mind for eternity in hell) presents a real problem for the Christian who is serious about developing a Christlike attitude. The problem, in short, is that acceptance of the doctrine of eternal conscious torment encourages attitudes which are, as Parry put it, "vicious."

Vicious? Really? Indeed, I think Parry is right here. On this traditional view, the Christian is committed to the belief that a subset of God's creatures ("the damned") will be subject to eternal torments even as the elect experience maximal joy in a heavenly new creation. Here's where those vicious attitudes enter the picture: Christians now seek to develop the kind of character they will have in eternity. Indeed, that's precisely what sanctification is all about: becoming like Christ. But on this view, becoming like Christ means becoming the kind of person who can be maximally happy and joyful despite the unimaginable suffering of the damned.

You think that's bad? It gets even worse. You see, the mainstream view of eternal conscious torment represented by theologians from Tertullian to Thomas Aquinas to Jonathan Edwards to J.I. Packer, is that the suffering of the reprobate is not merely tolerated by the elect. Rather, it actually increases the joy of the elect since it manifests God's righteous holiness.

Let's consider that incredible claim for a moment. But let's make it personal. In eternity, you could end up in heaven while your beloved parent, child, or spouse, could end up suffering unimaginable torment forever in hell. And you would be maximally happy and joyful even as you witnessed the righteous divine wrath being poured out on this damned wretch: the mother who had raised you, the child you nurtured, the spouse you had loved, now reduced to a writhing burning cinder even as you sing divine praises.

If we're supposed to become like that now - if that's what sanctification really looks like - then preparation for eternity requires the cultivation of attitudes that would indeed look on any conventional measure to be vicious, not to mention perfectly horrible, and morally repugnant.

Consider this pale analogy. Imagine the meat eater who is overcome with compassion when witnessing the horrors of the slaughterhouse. But rather than resolve not to eat meat, or at least to adopt a new commitment to the humane slaughter of animals, he instead cauterizes his emotions against the terrible fate of industrial livestock. He will not allow their suffering to adversely impact the pleasure of his meal.

In like manner, on this picture the Christian who is now overcome with compassion or immobilized in anguish for the eternally damned should recognize that these attitudes are at odds with the end goal of becoming Christlike. The sanctified person in glory is the one who can rejoice in the glow of the suffering of the damned.

This brings us to a deep paradox with the traditional view of hell as eternal conscious torment. Even defenders of this view of hell like Paul Helm and J.I. Packer agree that we ought to hope that all are saved. Despite this fact, a commitment to become sanctified like Christ requires that we seek to cauterize our emotions so we may become indifferent to, or even rejoice in, the torment of the damned.
Right doctrine should lead to right character
The problem can be put simply. This doctrine of eternal conscious torment seems to be fundamentally at odds with becoming like Christ. But isn't that backwards? Shouldn't right doctrine seamlessly interweave with right character formation? Put another way, if a doctrine requires us to cultivate vicious attitudes, isn't that reasonable evidence that this doctrine is false?

Eric Seibert believes so and he offers a way forward with a hermeneutical principle to guide theological reflection. (For more on Seibert see my audio podcast interview). Seibert begins by quoting the great Church Father, St. Augustine:

"Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this two-fold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought."

Seibert then fills out Augustine's principle:

"Whenever we read and interpret the Bible, we should always be asking whether our interpretation increases our love for God and others." (The Violence of Scripture: Overcoming the Old Testament's Troubling Legacy (Fortress Press, 2012), 66-67).

The Augustine-Siebert principle offers a reasonable resolution to the problem. Whenever we encounter a doctrine or a reading of a biblical passage, we must ask of it, does that doctrine or reading increase our love for God and neighbor? If one concludes that it does neither, and indeed does the opposite, we have a reason to reject it.

With that, we can turn back to our current dilemma. Defenders of eternal conscious torment are left with a cognitive dissonance at the heart of their conception of sanctification. On the one hand, they recognize the obvious: if you want to see folk damned, there's something wrong with you. On the other hand, they are obliged to recognize that in eternity you will find joy in seeing folk damned, and yet there won't be anything wrong with you. Indeed (and incredibly) this will be what it means to be like Christ.

But that's not what it means to be like Christ. The logic of eternal conscious torment leaves one with the cultivation of vicious attitudes that militate against love of neighbor. This doctrine is fundamentally at odds with Christian sanctification and discipleship, and that devastating consequence provides a reasonable ground to reconsider the biblical and theological credentials of eternal conscious torment, if not to reject the doctrine altogether.

About Randal Rauser
Randal Rauser is Professor of Historical Theology at Taylor Seminary in Edmonton, Alberta. He is the author of many books, including Is the Atheist My Neighbor?: Rethinking Christian Attitudes toward Atheism (2015), The Swedish Atheist, the Scuba Diver, and Other Apologetic Rabbit Trails (2012), and You're Not as Crazy as I Think: Dialogue in a World of Loud Voices and Hardened Opinions (2011). Rauser blogs and podcasts as The Tentative Apologist at randalrauser.com.

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How the Traditional Doctrine of Hell Undermines Christian Character

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The doctrine of eternal conscious torment presents a real problem for the Christian who is serious about developing a Christlike attitude. The problem, in short, is that acceptance of the doctrine of eternal conscious torment encourages attitudes which are, as Parry put it, "vicious."

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- this memory seemed the same as the memory of the hill
- the sled move forward with Jonas on it but this time the sled didn't stop it just keep on gathering speed
- Jonas tried to control the sled with the ropes but it was not use
- The sled along with Jonas spun in all directions everywhere
- Then the sled hit a bump on the ground and went flying in the sky
- Jonas fell with his leg twister underneath himself and his face scrapped by the ice
- Jonas heard the crack of the bone and lay down on the ground shocked about what had just happened
- The pain hit him hard like a bunny being hit by a truck
- He couldn't move his leg and the pain just kept growing
- Then he was back at the Annex room with his wet face stained with tears
- He asked the Giver for relief-of-pain pill but the Giver couldn't let him have one because it has one of his rules he had to obey
- His training continued with more memories of pain
- But they ended each day with a happy memory (a brisk sail on a blue-green lake, a meadow dotted with yellow wildflowers, an orange sunset behind mountains
- After being received yet another horrible painful memory, Jonas asked the GIver why they have to hold the memories
- The Giver responded with the answer it gives us wisdom, and wisdom is what the Elders need when I come to help them make decisions
- A year before Jonas was born, a lot of the citizens wanted to increase the rate of births
- They wanted each Birthmother to be granted four births instead of three births which would increase the population
- This idea could accommodate family units by giving them an additional newchild
- The Committee of Elders asked the Giver to give them wisdom to help them make a decision on what to do
- The problem was the strongest memory was from hunger
- The population got was so big that people didn't have enough to eat and people become starving and hunger, which was followed by warfare
- The last time the Committee of Elders came to the Giver for advice was when the plane flew over the community
- The Elders wanted to shoot the plane down that day by the Giver gave him wisdom and took them NOT to shoot it down
- Jonas will have to receive the memory of destruction, and the Giver told Jonas that it would hurt a lot
- Then Jonas asked if everyone could have a part of the memories and not just Jonas and the Giver because they were the only ones who experienced different emotions but the Giver said that the community doesn't need those memories because they everyone would be burdened and feel pain, and that is real reason that the Receiver is so important to them and has so much honor
- Gabe was growing as each month came , he could sit alone, reach for things, grasp for small objects and had six teeth
- Gabe still have problems at night and keeps waking up at night
- When the Birthmother had twins, the smaller one would get released
- Jonas suggested that Gabriel sleep in his room, instead with his parents for the night
-  Jonas by accident gave one of his memories to Gabe, and when he tried to remember that memory again it was there but the sky was less bright, the lake water more murky, and the motion of the boat slower
-  Gabe woke up again and Jonas decided to give him the rest of that memory

Answers to Previous Questions:
7. There can't be more people in a family unit because in earlier years having more people often led to hungry or starvation.

New Questions:
36. If Jonas tells the Giver about giving one of his memories to Gabe, how will the Giver react?
37. Will Gabe continue to sleep in Jonas's room?