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11th grade, group A

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Age, 83 years old
Known for writing about difficult or complex sujects to young audiences.
Books: The giver, number the stars, Rabble Starkey, etc.

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Published on 1993
Genre: science and distopian fiction.
Award won: John Newbery Medal

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We meet Jona. An eleven year old who has a sister and his parents. They live in an odly peaceful and ordered community.

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It is nearly december and Jonas is getting frightened. Then he remembered of a time when a pilot flew over the community, and realised he wasn´t really frightened.

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He realizes he is "apprehensive" of December, because of the ceremony of the 12. Where he will be given his Assigment by the Elders.

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Jona gets home in his bicycle, and he plans to talk about his feelings to his parents at diner. This is when his family performs the "sharing of feelings," a nightly ritual where they help each other process the events of the day.

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The father, who is a nurterer starts sharing his feelings about a child. The little sister goes next, then the mother, and finally it is Jona´s turn.

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Jona´s parents try to reassure him about the Ceremony of Twelve. They remind him how he usually enjoys the ceremonies.

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Jona´s Nurturer father shares his own experiences of the ceremony. Since he was young, he was always confident about his assigment of being a Nurturer.

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Then the father talks about the ceremony of the Nine, which is when children are able to receive a bycicle. This law had tried to be change, but the Elders never did it.

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Jona´s mother then shares her experience. But this just upsets Jona, since his mother is always working on her assigment.

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Jona is still aprehensive about the ceremony. He doesn´t have an idea of what his assigment could be, and fears of not being with his friends anymore.

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Jonas´ father brings home Gabe, a child from the nurturing center who isn´t developing fast. He hopes with extra attention he will develop and wouldn´t be released.

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Lily notices a resemble between Gabe´s and Jonas´ eye colour. Both are light colored. Jona gets mad because of the comment.

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He warned Lily that she could get an announce because of her insensitive comment. Public announcements were made to remind anyone the rules.

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Jonas remembers an incident he had with an apple, which caused a public announcement that reminded him of not bringing home food from the recreation center.

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Lily shares her feelings about wantig to be a birthmother, to which her mother gets angry. Jona´s father suggests Lily the idea of being a nurturer.

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Jonas searches for Asher. He wants to spend his last volunteer hours with him. He finally founds his bicycle outside the House of the Old.

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Jonas reflects about his community work and how he has tried everything.  But the other kids, spend their time in one specific center.

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Benjamin has developed new techniques in the rehabilitation center, but can´t receive any compliments. Compliments could lead to bragging, and bragging is against the rules.

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Jonas enters the House of the Old and finds his friend Fiona too. He bathes an old woman (Larissa) and talks with her. She tells him about the release celebrations.

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Jonas learns about some elders that have been released, Edna and Roberto. He jokes about changing the rules, so that young people can also attend to the Releasing Room and ceremonies.

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At breakfast, Jonas´ family shares their dreams and talk about them. Lily shared her dream first. Then it was Jonas´mother turn, she dreamt about breking a rule.

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Jonas never had dreams, but this time he had one to tell. He dreamt he was at the bathrooms in the House of the Old. But this time, he wasn´t bathing an elder.

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He was trying to convince Fiona to take of her clothes off. Jonas felt a feeling of wanting, he wanted it to happen, but Fiona refused to because it was wrong. After hearing it, Jonas´ father and Lily went out on a walk.

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Jona´s mother explains the "Stirrings" or "wanting" that he has been feeling. They are very normal, and happen to everyone. She gave Jonas the pills to neutralize them.

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Everyone in the community takes the pills to calm the feeling of the stirrings. Still, Jonas can´t stop thinking about how good the stirrings made him feel.

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Lily looks forward to the ceremony of nine,  were she will stop wearing ribbons, since she is tired of tying them. Jonas reminds her of the benefits from other years.

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The community gathers in the Auditorium for the ceremonies to begin. Gabe doesn´t attend to the ceremony, since he has been given an extra year of nurturing.

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In the first ceremony, the Nurturers handed the Ones to families. Also, a ceremony of replacement was made. A newchild was named Caleb, in replacement of a child who drowned.

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Ceremonies go on, until the Lily´s ceremony of the Eight. She receives a jacket and listens to the speech. The next day, the rest of the ceremonies continue.

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The Nines receive bicycles, Tens cut their hair, etc. In a break before the ceremony of Twelves, Asher tells stories of people who received bad assigments and moved to another community.

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The ceremony of Twelve finally begins. An Elder explains the end of childhood an the importance of contributing to the community. Jonas and Asher feel nervous.

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The kids are called to the stage by the number order of when they were born. Asher is 4 and Jonas is 19.

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Each child receives a different assigment. The first girl received the assigment of "Fish Hatchery". Later, it is Asher´s turn. The community recalls his childhood and laugh, he is assigned to the Recreation unit.

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Jonas is feeling more tranquil and intrigued, since he trustes the Elders choices but doesn´t have an idea of his assigment.

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The ceremony continues normally, until it is 18´s turn. She receives her assigment, and then, just when Jonas thinks it´s his turn, the chief skips him and continues with number 20.

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After the final assigment, everyone applauded, but were in confusion. The Chief apologizes to everyone for the confusion, and calls Jonas to come to the stage.

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She announces that Jonas wasn´t assigned, he was selected to be the Receiver of Memory. Everyone is surprised, but Jonas didn´t understand.

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The community has only one Receiver. He is sitting separately from the Elders in the audience, and he will train Jonas. Jonas will receive training apart from the other children.

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She tells Jonas he has been selected carefully by the community, since there can´t be any second failure, like the one 10 years ago.

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The Chief warns about the pain Jonas may face in training, and the wisdom he will get. She also says Jonas has the unique ability to see beyond. She finishes the ceremony, and leaves the stage. Jonas knew his life was about to change.

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After the ceremony, he feels people starting to treat him differently. He tries talking to his friends, but the situation just feels uncomfortable.

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His parents try to lift him by telling him the importance  of his doing. Both of them are very proud of him. At dinner, Lily talks about her upcoming volunteering at the Nurturing Center.

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Jonas learns that the previous receiver from 10 years ago was a girl. Her name was prohibited to say, which is the highest disgrace in the community. His parents don´t know what happened to her.

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Later, he opens the instructions he received at the end of the ceremony. Everyday after school, he has to go directly to an annex in the House of the Old for his training. He can´t discuss it with anyone but his master.

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He also can´t speak about his dreams, but he can ask any question to anyone. He is also allowed to lie. He questions the rules, and wonders how they may affect him and his personal relationships. Jonas deeply wonders, does everyone have the permission to lie?

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Jonas and Fiona walk together to the House of the old. She gets in, while Jonas goes to the Annex. The receptionist unlocks the door and lets him enter.

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The room is luxurious and big. The walls are filled with books. He finds these very unusual, since he has only seen 4 different books in his life.

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Jonas meets the Receiver of Memory. He has been the receiver since a very long time, but he is not as old as he looks like, the giving of memories age you.

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He asks Jonas to ask him any question. Jonas feels a bit uncomfortable so he doesn´t ask any. The receiver makes an analogy using the "it is like riding downhill on a sled".

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Jonas doesn´t understood it. The receiver explains that his memories are from the past, and from the whole word. He decides to trasmit to Jonas the memory of snow.

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After laying down, closing his eyes, he starts feeling a breeze of cold air. A part of him opens his eyes and realizes he is in a hill with snow. Another part of him is still with the receiver.

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He is seated in the top of a sled, wich starts sliding downhill. He loved the feeling, but eventually, he opens his eyes and goes back to the receiver.

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Jonas loved the memory and starts asking questions about it. The receiver tells him that Climate Control got rid of snow and hills to turn into sameness.

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The giver gives Jonas another memory. This one was about sunshine, and Jonas understands everything from the memory. He and the receiver regret the decision the community took of sameness.

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Jonas asks aboout the warning of pain the Chief told him about. The Giver (receiver) gives him a new memory of sunshine, but now, it is a sunburn. This hurts Jonas, but makes him understand the concept of pain in memories.

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Jonas dreamt about the snow in the hill, but avoids telling it to his parents. At school, all his classmates talk about their trainings, but Jonas can´t talk about his.

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Later, Fiona asks him about the training, but Jonas changed the conversation and asker her about hers. When Fiona leaves, he notices her hair starts changing. Just like the apple.

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Jonas asks the giver about the changes he saw. The giver tells him he is seeing beyond. He asks Jonas to remember the sled, then he shows him some books in the shelf. Jonas notices they all change in the same way.

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The giver explains that he is starting to see color. Before sameness, everything was different and had it´s own color. There were multiple colors, and red was one of them. The giver can see all of them.

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Jonas will learn about every color too. To solve different problems, the community decided to end color. Jonas gets mad about the sameness. Then, the giver shares a memory of a rainbow.

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Now, Jonas can see all the colors at some moments. He wishes to be able to make decisions based in difference. The giver points out the danger of maing wrong decisions, to which Jonas ends up agreeing.

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The giver gives Jonas the memory of a war and an elephant corpse. When he gets home, he notices lily´s object was an elephant. He tries to give her a memory of the real elephant, but he fails.

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Jonas asks if the giver has a spouse, to which he responds yes. He tells Jonas that it is a very hard marriage, since he can´t tell her anything about his work. His work became his life, and he can occasionally talk about the memories with the commitee.

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We learn that the previous receiver´s failure was that her memories were passed to the community. Those memories brought back pain, which the Giver feels in a greater way.

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The giver´s pain is so great that sometimes he can´t train Jonas. Jonas starts feeling sorry for him, so he asks him to give him a memory that causes his pain. The Giver agrees and gives him another memory.

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The memory is now again on the hill. But now, the sled is going on too fast. He is thrown into the air and injures himslef.

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He begs for a pill to control the umbearable pain, but he can´t because of the rules. The giver keeps giving him more painful memories.

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Jonas asks why he is got to have those memories, but then he is given examples of how the wisdom of this memories becomes helpful, including the incident of the plane.

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At home, Jona´s father is anxious about having to release Gabriel if he doesn´t calm. He also mentions a lady who is about to have twins, whom one of them will have to be released.

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Later, Jonas decide to start sleeping with Gabriel, since his parents can´t take it anymore. To calm the baby down, he transfered him some sailing memories.

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Again, Jonas finds the Giver in pain. Other times, the Giver would tell Jonas to go away, but this was different. The Giver begged Jonas to take some of the pain.

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Jonas agreed, and once the Giver placed his palms on his back, he found himself on a warfare. He found a boy who was seriouslly injured. The boy begged him for water.

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He gently gives water to the boy, until suddenly, the boy comes completely quiet. He died, but Jonas can still hear all the people and animals fighting, he can´t take it anymore.

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He opens his eyes, just to find the Giver in a feeling of guilt. He begs Jonas to forgive him. He forgives him, but the memory of war traumatizes him.

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Jonas starts to think about death, and how his community never mentions it. Loss and releases happen, but never in the "brutal" way that death happens in war.

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Jonas is now feeling overwhelmed about all the memories he has been given, and how all his community is so carefree. To try to cheer him, the giver gives him happy memories.

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Jonas asks the Giver to give him his favorite memory. The Giver nicely gives it. It was a memory of christmas. Jonas saw the family surrounding the christmas tree, and felt the feeling of love.

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He asks about the old people in the family, and finds out about what grand parents are. He realizes he never had thought about how his parents also had parents. He feels sad about growing up and abandoning his parents.

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He also desired to experience the holiday he had just seen. He mentions how the family in the memory felt more complete, and wishes that the community was like that.

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At home, he asks his parents if they love him. They laugh it off and avoided the question, expressing how meaningless was the question. Jonas felt sad, but said he understood.