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How has Jonas changed throughout the book? - Shreya

Jonas has gained more knowledge by recieving memories, which caused him to start thinking for himself. This causes him to leave the community, lie and stop his medication, which also allowed for development in the community.

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Q: would you risk your life for someone else

A: I think I would if it was a friend or family otherwise I would not be motivated enough to put my life on the line. I would only save my friends or family or someone who I have a personal connection to because I care for them enough to put my life on the edge

-Connor

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Do you think sameness in our world benefits us or brings us more disadvantages? My would answer be that it does bring advantages for some of us in the world that doesn't like to stand out and be unique and would rather blend in but can stop some people from being their true selves. -Albert C

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Is it better to give people freedom or protect them?

I think it is better not to have freedom. It can lead to bad decisions. However, people can also grow from bad choices.

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Question: Why did the community choose sameness?

I think the community chooses sameness. Because it protects the community from pain because there is no love.

Btw it Ken

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Question: After Jonas's departure, do you think the Giver will help the community or will the community not listen to the Giver?

Answer: I believe that first, the community won't understand the qualities of choice and emotions, and they want to keep "sameness". This might cause them to push the memories away, and all chaos could break out. But as they bear the memories, they will come to realize that the emotions of the past was something that they never experienced, even all the hunger and warfare. They will love the memories of sunshine, color, warmth, and love, so they might want to keep it. I think that eventually, they will accept the Giver and all members of the community will work to restore what was pushed away by "Sameness." - Ningxi Lu

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William Shin

Q: Was it a good idea to take Gabriel with Jonas?

A: Of course, Gabriel would've died, so Jonas had to come to the nurturing center and save his life.

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Question: What did the twins represent in the book?

Answer: I think it represents individuality and they don't want people to have their owns thoughts. -Safa A

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Johnny Xia

Q: What impacts will the Sameness make if it exists in our world?

A: Sameness brings both good and bad effects. Sameness limits people's freedom, it can include no color, no memories, no emotions and more. But one good thing about Sameness is that no one's gonna get harmed, they get protections which is the only good point about Sameness.

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Nikita Gunasekaran

Question: Should the game of war be played in the community?

Answer: I think the game should not be played because it represents war, which means killing and fighting, which is not good to play. The people of the community don't know what war actually means, and they use it for entertainment purposes. People shouldn't do anything if they don't know what it means. It could be heart-breaking when someone that knows what it means see people playing it. Imagine war happening in real life. We don't want this stuff to happen to us, so we shouldn't play it.

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William Shin

Q: Do you think playing a game of war is a correct thing to do?

A: I think playing a game of war is okay if it's actually a pretend and not causing actual harm.

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Question: How do you interpret elsewhere?

In Jonas's community, "elsewhere" is like the afterlife. However, I think it is more of a symbol of hope for Jonas. It represents the "elsewhere" beyond the community, The place where there is freedom, memories, and emotion.

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Isabel Jung

Do you think playing the war game is a correct thing to do?

A. I think it does not matter because except for the Giver, the citizens do not know the specific definition of the WAR.

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Adarsh Vijay

Question: Why are people not given any memories in the Jonas community? What if it was given, will it help the community?

Ans: Jonas community doesn't want people in the society to feel the pain or any strong emotions, so they get rid of memories that bring those feelings, but when people have memories of war and lose they will know how to make peace with other countries. If they know hunger, they will have the responsibilities to cultivate enough food and know the value of food, if they were given the memories of love they will know how to protect each other whom they love and their may not be anyone released in the community and instead they know how to save their lives.

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Y.William.M

What's Humanity? 人性 人類 인류... Humanity is the precious quality a human has that's different from other creatures. ABility to make choices, mood, emotion. Or the five factors, physical, cognitive, social, cultural, emotional. As F.Nietzsche said, "There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty. The one necessary thing. — A person must have one or the other. Either a cheerful disposition by nature, or a disposition made cheerful by art and knowledge." HUMANITY is a quality we know, but cannot define.

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Haider Yasin

If you were receiver what would you do?

I would stick to my job, but like Jonas, would likely break more than a few rules such as giving away memories.

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Y.William.M

Sameness can stabilize the community and improve the efficiency just like another way of "DICTATORSHIP". But I do not think it can be Immortal. Even though it does, without feeling, emotion, and choices, this can lead to the downfall of HUMANITY.

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Shivali Karthik

Question: Do you think sameness should be in our community? Some elements of sameness should be in our community since it gets rid of hunger, triggered feelings by color, and pain.

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What does Jonas think of relese before he actually seen it? (Kevin Sun)

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Y.William.M

He can adapt to the new community because for sure he can live physically, and he will first struggle, than adapt by the instinct brought by his memory and feelings

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Is it actually good if people in the real world have access to past memory? What will happen. I believe there will not be a lot of impact on surface, but when they are studying history, they can understand people in the past more.

Yihao William Man

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Haider Yasin-

Question:

In our world would we benefit if we could access memories of the past?

Answer:

No, we would be disoriented by the mental stress and we already know our historical past and benefit from it.

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Terry Chen

Why did Jonas think it was a good idea to leave the community? I think that he probably thought that his plan would go well when he confidently said, "No one will see me".

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What do the twins in the community represent?

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In what ways is Jonas affected by being the receiver of memory? -Rachel

Jonas experiences real emotions compared to the people in his community allowing him to be more knowledgable than everyone else. Although, he feels isolated from his friends because he feels love for them that they don't feel for him.

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Shivali Karthik

Question: Did Jonas make the right decision to leave the community so early? I think that he made the right decision since he saved Gabriel from becoming released. Additionally, he unleashed a year's worth of memories to the citizens, causing them to experience something new and powerful, thus letting them live simply and normally, as the Giver probably would have guided the people on how to handle them.

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Keira G

Do you think Jonas did the right thing to leave the community?

I think Jonas made the right decision to run away because the community enforces too many strict rules. Jonas leaving also helps the innocent citizens that are in the community by releasing all the painful and sad memories from the Giver back to them. They now learn about the truth and are saved. Jonas may have sacrificed himself but he did that to save his own community and his family.

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Adrian Nguyen - Do you think Jonas made the right decision to leave the community?

Jonas made the right decision to leave because he realized that the community made strict laws on people and took control of their lives. He also knew that If he left, the memories he held would be released into the community so they could gain knowledge from the memories. Also, it was the only way to save Gabriel. He would've been "released" because he could not be put down to bed without Jonas. Leaving the community was the right decision.

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Nour

did Jonas make the right decision to leave his community.

Jonas did make the right decision because his society was mean and cruel and he would have been fine because of all of he memories that he has

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What things are the same in our world and Jonas's world? We see things in schools with uniform expectations and everyone wearing the same thing. Another thing that we see is trying to avoid things that we need such as pain. -Brenden

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Why did Jonas suddenly want to leave his community?

I think Jonas wanted to leave his community because he thought that only him and the Giver only being the people who had the memories were unfair. He also wanted to live in a community where other people have also experienced pain and love. In addition, he wanted to give his community the memories as well, and by him leaving, that would be possible. - Yoojin Ma

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Question: How is sameness show in our real world?

Answer: People follow and obey rules just like they do in The Giver. Some organizations and schools also force people to wear uniforms to reduce danger and keep people safe.

Lyric H

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Which country is alike to Jonas's community?

-Brad

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How does Jonas' community relate to our society? What are some similarities and differences?

-Isabella L

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What aspects of sameness are similar to our world? In our world people hates having pain. They would always want to avoid it.

-Minjun G.

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How do you think Sameness is shown in our world?

In our world, people try to avoid pain as much as possible just like people do in Jonas' community. -Yoojin Ma

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How does the aspects of Jonas's community relate to our present day life?

In our real world, there are also references to Sameness, similar to that of Jonas's community. Sometimes, people will try to fit in with everyone else, which is an important part of Jonas's community. -Ruoxi Z

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Question: What aspects of sameness are shown in our world? My answer would be that humans try to modify things like geography for money, safety, or for enjoyment. -Connor C

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Elliot Kwon

What are some aspects of Sameness are the same to our world? In our world people try as hard as they can to avoid pain like the community.

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Will the Giver apply for release or will they make him bear the memories again?

I think that they might let him release because he is old and transferred many memories to Jonas.

-Charlie Lilou Chamouille