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What is it?:
- What is the author trying to say about people, society, ect.
- Not to be confused with a theme topic like, "love", "war", or "family".
Self Discovery
- People must be able to make choices to reach their own destiny/fulfillment
The Importance of Memory:
- Lowery's personal inspiration - father with memory loss
-Without memory, human beings cannot reach true happiness or learn from their mistakes
Pleasure and pain:
- Without pain, people cannot understand pleasure
- We must embrace and learn from pain
Blind Obedience:
- It is important for people to question their story instead of following blindly

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- They are seeing nature and wildlife for the first time
- It gets colder, and starts to snow
- Gabe is very weak and cold
- Jonas is warming Gabe by giving him the memory of sunshine
- There was a sled waiting for them at the top of the hill
- People were waiting for him and Gabe
- He heard music for the first time
- They made it to the Elsewhere

Questions:
- What is Jonas' new life like?
- Did Gabe make it alive?
- What happens next?
- Is them sliding down the hill a way of saying they died? Or is it really happening?
Answers:
- No answer.
- No answer.
- No answer.
- No answer.

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- Jonas took Gabe too so he wouldn't be released
- Search planes are looking for Gabe and Jonas
- The planes frequency is less and less
- The landscape is changing
- Jonas fell and him and Gabe are hurt

Questions:
- Are they going to make it the the Elsewhere?
- When they reach the Elsewhere, will Gabe be able to see colour?
- What is the Giver thinking right now?
- Is he mad, or worried about Jonas
Answers:
- Yes.
- No answer.
- No answer.
- No answer.

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- Jonas' dad just killed a twin that was innocent
- Jonas saw the whole thing
- Jonas is spending the night at the Annex room with the Giver
- The Giver won't leave with Jonas
- The plan is for Jonas to fake his death and be a stowaway with the Giver and leave
- The previous selection - Rosemary - is the Giver's daughter

Questions:
- What is wrong with their society?
- Why does no one know or care about this?
- Do the stirring pills make you have no emotion at all?
- If so, is that why Jonas' dad barely cared when he killed the baby
- What is the Giver's real name?
Answers:
- Everything.
- They know nothing else or what they're doing.
- No emotional connection to anything.
- Yes.
- No answer

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- Jonas learnt about Rosemary
- If Jonas were to die right now, everyone would feel all the feelings that he had been given
- Gabriel is getting better
- Jonas can't even play a game with his friends without it being ruined by the bad memories he's been given
- Jonas' dad tells Jonas the process of preparing for release
Questions:
- What was the Giver thinking about when he was talking to Jonas at the end of the chapters?
- What is the elsewhere?
- Why was there an unscheduled holiday?
Answers:
- A plan on how to get Jonas to escape their community therefore leaving the people to have memories.
- No answer but they say it is where people who are released go.
- No answer.

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- Jonas learnt what warfare means - in the worst way
- He experienced war and saw people and animals dying around him
- He took pain from the Giver
- He doesn't want to do it anymore
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He asked his parents if they loved him
- Jonas didn't take his pill!
- He is still giving memories to Gabriel

Questions:
- Will people be able to tell that he didn't take his pill?
- Will he ever tell the Giver about the memory-sharing?
- When Gabriel is older, will he be able to remember the memories that Jonas is giving him?
Answers:
- They never did.
- No he didn't.
- No answer.

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- Some days the Giver is in pain and Jonas get sent away
- Jonas receved the memory of a broken leg
- The pain lingered for a while after the memory was given
- Jonas gave a memory to Gabriel
- They can't have twins

Questions:
- Why does everything have to be the same?
- Why is the Giver in pain?
- Why can't everyone share pain?
- How does the Giver get memories of other people around the world?
- If Jonas told anyone about giving Gabriel the memory, would he get in trouble, be unselected for receiver, or released?
- Why can't they have twins?
Answers:
- So there is no choice because people could make the wrong choice.
- He is remembering a painful memory.
- It is too much pain and for the Sameness.
- No answer.
- No answer.
- Sameness.

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- Joans got the memories of snow, sled, hill, runners, sunshine, and sunburn
- Jonas can easily bring back memories - like the snow
- There are ne colours in their world
- Scientists are modifying things so EVERYTHING is the exact same (boring)
- He is given the colour red
- Everyone has the same coloured skin and soon, hair
- Sameness - no snow, no hills, no sun, no pain, no colour

Questions:
- When The Giver transmitts memories to Jonas, will the painful ones hurt?
- Is that what the Chief Elder meant by it being painful?
Answers:
- Yes.
- Yes. The more painful the memory, the more pain Jonas is in.

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- Everyone sees Jonas differently now
- Jonas has new rules that go completely against what he was taught (Ex. He can lie)
- Went to see The Reciever
- Finds out that there is more to the world
The Receiver is going to give all the memories in the world to Jonas
- The Giver has pale eyes too

Questions:
- How will The Receiver give Jonas the memories?
- What happened to the selected receiver ten years ago?
- Why can't he take any medication?
- Why does no one have books?
- What are the books about?
Answers:
- With his hands on Jonas' back.
- She applied for realse.
- No answer.
- No answer.

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Definition:
- How the author reveals information
- From the perspective of the narrator
First Person:
-Perspective of one character
-Look-fors - I, me, mine, myself
-Advantages - inner thoughts of character
-Disadvantages - Not getting all info
Third Person:
-Narrator can "see" many characters but not everything
- Look-fors - he, she, it, they, them,
-Adv. create suspense
-Disadv. don't have everything
Omniscient:
-Narrator knows all
-Look-fors - he, she, it, they, them
-Adv. full picture
-Disadv. no inner thoughts of characters

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- In the ceremony of Twelves, Jonas was skipped
- Jonas was the last to receive his assignment
- Jonas will be the next 'Receiver of Memories'
- He has the ability to see beyond
- Asher gets Assistant Director of Education

Questions:
- Is the ability to see beyond when he saw the apple change?
- How much physical pain will he be in?
- Is it only pale eyed people who can see beyond?
Answers:
- Yes.
- It depends on the memory. He gets the amount of pain the memory has.
- No answer but
I think so

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- Benjamin, who is very smart, is very talented in rehabilitation
- Jonas is at the House of Old with Asher and Fiona
- Talking about the release of Roberto while bathing Larissa
-  Jonas had a dream about him and Fiona
- He had his first 'Stirring' and is taking pills
- Jonas and his family are at the ceremony

Questions:
- Why were Jonas and Larissa so happy about Roberto's releasing? Last time they talked about releasing, it was a bad thing.
- What is the 'Stirring'?
- What do the pills do for the stirring?
- Do the other communities have rules like this one does?
Answers:
- They think that releasing for the elders isn't as painful and is not dying.
- A dream with feelings.
- Yes. the Sevens go and visit another community.

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- Jonas and parents are discussing the ceremony for the Twelves
- Dad brings home the newchild
- Mom talked Lily out of being a birthmother and into a nurturer instead
- Jonas was seeing an apple change its form

Questions:
- Why do all children have the same 'birthday'?
- Why do kids go to different parents rather than their birth parents?
- Why only fifty new born kids per year?
- Why are there almost no mirrors?
- Is the 'dwelling' when they talk about their feelings?
Answers:
- Sameness.
- There are a certain amount of birthmothers and there are two kids per family unit.
- Population control.
- Their homes.

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- Main characters - Jonas, Lily, Mother, Father, Asher
- Pilot is released at beginning of chapter
- Dad works with newborn babies (Nurturer)
- Mom works at Justice department
- Talk about their feelings every night at dinner
- In December there is a ceremony for the "Twelves" which Jonas is apprehensive about

Questions:
- What does 'released' mean?
- Why only one male and one female child allowed in each family?
-What is 'Sevens' that Lily is in and 'Elevens' that Jonas is in?
-Why do they have to talk about their feelings every night?
Answers:
- Killed with a needle in your vain.
- Sameness.
- Their age.
- No answer

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Utopia:
- A community or society possessing desirable or perfect qualities
Examples:
-Heaven
-Garden of Eden
-Nirvana
Dystopia:
- Greek meaning - "anti-utopia
- A community or society that is undesirable or frightening
Christian Example:
-Hell