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Out of the 4 themes in this unit I thought that the most important theme was either self-discovery or blind obedience.  An example for self discovery from the text would be how Jonas made the decision to go against the community and choose to stop taking the pills for the stirrings. The pills for the stirrings were meant to stop the people from seeing their way and make sure they had no doubts about the society they lived in. I believe because Jonas stopped taking them that lead him to the other self discovery that he needed to go find elsewhere instead of living the way he was.

An example for blind obedience would be how he began to question the ways of the society he lived in and started to doubt the ways he had been living his life for the past 12/13 years. Something that he doubted was the sameness and how they were being treated, for example how they were being released.

In conclusion I found that the two most important themes that were displayed in this novel was self-discovery and blind obedience because they got my attention the most and I think that without those the story wouldn't be able to happen

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Main ideas
-Gabe was very very tired and weak
-Jonas seemed to be more of a giving soul then a receiving one
- Jonas was struggling about then way things were (the weather and the sadness)
-Jonas finally found the place he was looking for

Questions
-Why could the author of left us with less of a cliffhanger and why did she leave the story without telling how Jonas was going to end up
-How did Jonas know where he was somehow
-Is Jonas dead

Answer:
-I have no idea but most likely so that she could add some other books
-He may have remembered this place from all of the memories
- We don't know but maybe in the other books she might've mentioned it.

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Main ideas
- Now there were new things about where he was now going and he noticed that there were small changes for example the roads were less cared for and the trees were fuller
-Jonas had finally seem the first looks of wildlife and he was finally able to see a real water fall
-There were becoming less and less aircraft's and eventually non at all
-Jonas seems to be getting closer and closer to real civilization
-Jonas was starting to starve but Jonas was trying to fish and hunt

Questions
- how come nobody was near them and where are they located now ?
- Why did Jonas not stay near the river so he could stock up on the food

Answer:
-Because they were out of the community and all of the searchers had gone away
-Until now we have no idea

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Main ideas
-There was a mistake and Jonas had to leave early and he was out when the work crews where still out
- Gabe was going to be released so that's why Jonas took Gabe with him
-Gabe was crying the whole night and that's why he was to be released
-Jonas stole his fathers bike so that Gabe could go with him
-He took his dads bike so Gabe could fit
-Gabe seems to love being on the bike
-The search planes had infra-red heat finding things
-Even Gabe was able to distinguish the sounds of the planes
-Jonas was growing stronger and stronger as the days went on and eventually he didn't even need to take breaks

Question
-Why didn't Jonas try to steal a car from the night crew
- Why didn't Jonas steal some other things to help him on the journey
-why didn't Jonas wait or go earlier

Answer:
- Because that would make a lot of noise and heat also it would be easier to track him down
-I believe that is because he wasn't able to get the time
-Because Gabe was going to be released the next day

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Main ideas
-Jonas was unhappy with the way people had being realsed and how almost no one knew about it
-Jonas was so unhappy with his dad he didn't even want to go home
- The giver allowed Jonas to stay with him
-No one knows anything except the elders and the giver and receivers
-The giver seems to be almost a god to others
- Jonas seems to want to be against everything now that he has found out the truth
- The Giver and Jonas found a plan to get away from the community

Questions
-Why do they need to stay and why does they need to keep one person, with all of this pain why do they need keep it away from all of them
- Why don't they let all of the memories go to the community so that they can finally know the truth

Answer:
- They keep all of the memories so that the rest of the community doesn't need to suffer as much but I honestly still don't know  what their train of thought was
- Same as my first answer

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Main ideas
-Jonas finds out what it is to be released from the community
- Jonas was now able to request to see the realese and that when he found out that being relased meant that they would kill the little children or the elderly person.
Sadley jonas would not be able to confront his dad because he was unable to speak of his training
-Jonas was extremely unhappy to see what they did when they relased people and thought that it was not right

Questions
-Why did they need to release the kids like that and why couldn't they just send them to a different community
- Why does the giver seem to be powerless about making some of the decisions

Answer:
- Just like Lily said if they go to another community and the two of the children become mixed up then it will be all messed up
-He is powerless to some things because he can't overpower the head elder(s)

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Main ideas
- For Jonas being the receiver was less a donor and was more a pain because of the things he's seen and the things he knew he would need to she in the future
-The old name of the older receiver was rosemary
- She was much like Jonas and exited and happy
-The giver loved rosemary
-The reason that she left was due to the fact that the giver gave her the memory to quickly and she was overwhelmed
-Rosemary left her last session and went straight to get a release
-A lot of the rules were not made until that last failure

Questions
-What is the deal with river if the Giver is still so worried about Jonas drowning even though he knows Jonas can swim
- Why didn't the giver slow down and just let the training with rosemary go at his own pace

Answer:
-Probably just a strong current in the river, which makes it harder for the people who fell in to get back onto land
-I think the giver did go slow but Rosemary couldn't handle the pain that was in the memories

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Main ideas
-They have holidays
-Jonas hadn't been taking his pills for the stirrings for a little over 4 weeks and has become guilty
-Jonas had started to want to protest aginst sameness
- Now he could see all colors and hold the thoughts
-He knows what feelings are nown and can tell what they are
-Asher seems to maybe have a crush named tonya
-Jonas had a flashback of the memory of the war
-Jonas knows so much now that he feels uncomfortable around what used to be regular days
-Lily talks a lot

Questions
- Why does Gabe need Jonas' memories and can't just re-watch them in his mind
- What actually happened with the plane that flew over, what actually happened and who was it.

Answers:
-Gabe seems to use the memories as a way to calm him down and he seems to sleep much better
-We still don't know but I think that the pilot actually did make a mistake and flew over the community

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Main ideas
-Jonas started to not like his new job and was thinking of quitting
-They don't even celebrate their own birthday anymore
-Jonas seems to know nothing about the outside world.
- They don't have dogs or any real animals
-Jonas is now able to feel warmth and happiness
-Jonas doesn't have grandparents and didn't even know what they are
- Jonas doesn't know love sometimes
- Sameness is so controling and they don't know how to really live
-The word love seems to be know as people a bad word
-I feel like jonas might die so that everyone finds out all the truth

Questions
-Why sameness
-Why do they need to take away peoples ability to have feelings

Answer:
- So that the elders would be able to have all the power and minimize the amount of choices the citizens have
- They did this as a part of sameness and once again it is to stop letting people live as their own and only let them live as one community all the same

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Main ideas
-The giver is in very much pain from the memories
- Jonas took the memory that was hurting The giver
-The memory was someone dying of starvation
-The memory was of warfare and people staving

Questions
-Why can't the giver control what he sees as memories
-Why can't the Giver just delete or just push aside the terrible memories and just keep the better ones

Answers
- Most likely because once he gets those memories they are stuck with him until he passes them on
- Because if he were to delete the memories he may loose some of the lessons that came along with those memories

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Main ideas:
-Jonas' first bad memories were about the same as as his very first one, sledding
- Their community were able to have any of medication they demanded
-Jonas receives wisdom from The Giver
- Warfare was unknown by the children
- They elders seem to be extreme controlling
-Gabe seems to be much better but still doesn't very much sleep at all
- They release one of the twins
-  Gabe got part of the memories and it seemed to help him sleep
- Jonas never told that he gave Gabe some of his wisdom

Questions
-- Why do they need to release the little children
-- where do they bring the little children

Answer:
- Probably because they would waste their time raising them and they would need to release them eventually because they would be far to weak
- They practically bring them to their death because they end up being released

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Main ideas
- Jonas was now able to see colors but only glimpses
-Gabe has started to develop the right muscle
-No one thinks that anyone should choose their own things
-Jonas is becoming to be jealous of the others
-There is war in their world but just not their community
- Jonas tries to share his memories with his friends and family... for example the flowers and the elephants
- The giver seems to have lived a very hard life
- If Jonas has a family he needs to find all of his books
- Their community has computers

Questions
- Why don't they just have more reicvers of memories? It would hurt each of them less
- Why do they need to take everything so slow with the memories, why can't they just make it a one and done.

Answer:
- Probably because there would be more of a chance of one being killed and the memories going back to the community
- They must do it at the pace they did because if not they might overwlm the receiver much like what happened to Rosemary

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Main Ideas
-Jonas had dreams about going down the snow covered hill
-  All the 11s were able to explain their experiences except for Jonas
-Jonas and Fiona seem to "work" close to each other because they ride their bikes together
-Fiona waited for Jonas but he stayed really late
-Fiona's hair changed just like the apple
-Jonas was able to look at his older memories
-Jonas didn't know what color was
-There were scientists that create sameness and give most people the same color skin,hair, eyes
-they toke away the sunshine and color and so many more
Questions
- Why did they decide to do sameness and take away colors and so many other things
- why did the giver and Jonas think so much alike about so many things.

Answer:
- so that there were less mistakes to be made and less choices the would be capable of being made
- Well I don’t exactly know, but I believe it would because they both had the ability to see beyond

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Main ideas
- Jonas could feel all of the snow and cold weather because of the old man
- Jonas was getting all of these memories from the old man
- Trucks and buses still exist
- Climate change is real in this world
- The old man gave him the memories of sunshine
- They don't give the new receiver the painful experiences right away
- The old man becomes the giver

Questions:
- Why would the Giver be so stressed and tired
- Why had Jonas never experienced sunburn before

Answer:
- The giver dealt weighted down from all of the memories he received and has given and sometimes he doesn’t feel well because of the terrible memories he has inside of him
- Jonas had never experienced sunburn before because he lived in a community that had sameness

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Main ideas
- Jonas worked at annex and no everyone respects him
- Jonas' training room was one of the only rooms with a lock and that frightened him
-Jonas' new work was one of the more furnished places throughout the community
- He was officially the giver
- Jonas must take the memories of all of the world and thought it was overwhelming
- The receivers room is defenently much more done up and proper then any of the other rooms including the dwellings
-Jonas had the power to turn off the speaker
Questions:
- Why is Jonas' community so protected by the outside world and where do they live if they've never seen snow
- How does this man do such a thing by touching Jonas' back transmitting memory's

Answer:
- Jonas’ community was scientifically modded to create something called sameness which meant no color, sun, rain, snow or choices
- MAGIC... just kidding we don’t really know how Jonas or the giver are able to do it

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Main ideas

Asher seemed to become a little uncertain  with Jonas

Everyone seemed to be a little hesitant with Jonas

Lily decided she would start of her volunteer hours at the nurturing center

Jonas was given a strict list of things to do and what he could do

Jonas was given no recreational time

Questions:
- Why was everyone so hesitant with Jonas
- What happened to that first person and where did she go, Was she released

Answer:
- I believe everyone was so hesitant with Jonas because they were aware that you needed to be a special person to become a receiver of memory and because they knew that, they were afraid that he was different
- Rosemary who was the first one was released or in otherwords killed

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Main Ideas

The elder said that Jonas was not assigned and everyone became  uneasy

Then she said he was "selected " no one knew what that meant at first.

Jonas was selected to be the receiver of memory

That job was extremely rare

It seems like people with pale eyes become receiver of memories

The person who had the job before had failed miserably

It seems although the job Jonas was given was one of the most important

Jonas is, intelligent, has integrally, courage, The compassity to see beyond

You need to compassity to see beyond

The training is extremist grueling

Questions:

What is the big deal about being a receiver and why don't they have more than one of them

What had the first person do so so bad

Answer:
-Most likely because if there is more then one receiver then there is more of a chance of falling into the river and everyone getting some of the memories
- Nothing she just couldn’t handle the fear and pain from the painful memories

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Defination
- How the author reveals information
- From the perspective of the narrator

First Person
- Perspective of one character
- Looks-fors - I,Me,Myself
- Advantages - inner thoughts of charaters
Disadvantages ???

Third Person - Limited
- Narrarotor can "see" many charaters but not everything
- Looks-for- he,she,it,they,them etc
-Advantages - Can still create suspense
Disadvantages ???

Third Person - Omniscient
- Narrorator knows all
- Looks-for He, she, it, they, them, ect
- Advantages - creates full picture for reader
Disadvages - Can't get they feeling of charaters and get no feelings

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Main Ideas
-Everyone was given a number
-Jonas' number was 19
- Asher's number was 4
-Fiona's number was 18
-The begining of the ceriony is always begon with one other elders and is changed everyone 10 years
-Benjamin may become a scientiest
- There was a new birthmother
-Asher becomes a assistent directer of recretion
-Jonas was exited about his friend Asher
-Fiona was a given the assigment of someone who takes care of the elderly
- They skipped Jonas

Questions:
- Why they need to use a stick to punish the children and not just words
- Why did they need to skip Jonas for no reason

Answer :
- Most likely so that the are able to prove a point and not just allow them to think they are able to do whatever they did again
- Because Jonas receives a special assignment which is called the receiver of memories, his or her job is to be able to give advice using the memories no one else is given

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Main Ideas
- The kids up until the age of 12 get things each year for example sevens get a front buttoned jacket, nines get a bicycle and they all have their own meaning
- When you are 12 you get your assignment
- They don't seem to have cars, just bicycles
The nurturers need to bring the ones to the auditorium
- They have their ceremony in the auditorium
- The elders choose the names of the children and then get brought to their families
- Gabe was granted another year
- Gabe was still going to live with Jonas's family
- Fiona got an little brother named Bruno
-They seem to cycle names over and over again between being born and released

Questions:
Why is there a maximum of two children per family and why is it important that Jonas's family does not become attached to Gabe
- Where are the released sent to and what do they do there

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Main ideas
- For some reason their family needs to talk about their dreams
- They must wear smocks and tunics
-Jonas has strong feelings for Fiona
-Jonas's family lives in a dwelling
-They have a book for the rules
- If you have stering then you need to have pills for them to stop
-You need to take the pills untill your into the house of the elderly
Questions:
-What exactly are stirrings
Why do people need to take pills to stop stirrings
- What happened if you don't take the pills
- Why do the boys begin to have the stirrings before the females

Answer :
- Stirrings are when people that have feelings for others begin to have slightly akward and sexually advancing dreams for the other person, usually it is the males who get them first followed by females. Also the pills prevent people from thinking otherwise or two times of the community
- As what happened to Jonas was he began to have the dreams about Fiona and he also began to have thoughts about sameness
-It is unknown as to why males begin to have the  dreams earlier but because of that the need to take the pills before the females

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Your utopia may come to the expense of others and you may be happy but others might loose many of their human rights

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Main idea's:
- Lily would be starting her volentear hours soon because she is almost an 8
-Jonas used to try not to volutear with Ashers because he often fooled around but he needs to now because he needs to make sure he gets his needed amount of hours
- Asher and Jonas and Fiona worked at the place where they help old people
- Benjamin was working in the rehabilitation centre
- The was a rule about bragging
- Lily stays at a nursing center
- Jonas likes Fiona
- Jonas didn't work at the same places the whole time
- against the rules for looking at each other naked, unless the old or the young
- Roberto was released
Question:
- Why does Jonas need to take his volunteer hours so seriously
- What happens when you get "released"

Answer:
- Jonas needed to get his volunteer hours seriously so that he could get a good job unlike asher who only became a assistant recreation director
-When you get released you get injected by a needle that would kill you almost instantly.

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Main ideas
- Lily finally is receiving her new bike
- They now have the child that Jonas's Dad was talking about and they started to take care of them
- Lily decided to want to become a birthmother but her mom told her that it was a very low assignment and that she can do better
- Jonas, Gabe, And only someone else have light eyes

Questions:
- Why would being a birthmother such a bad job?
- Why did they need to take care of the little baby(Gabe)?

Answers :
-Being a birthmother was not such a bad job but more an job that is dishonorable and to the community it is less a job and more a need for the community
-They needed to take care of gabe because Gabe would've been released because he wouldn't sleep and was underdeveloped

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Main Ideas

- Every December they have ceremonies about they age for example 1 = ones ceremony. Also the ceremonies end at the age of 12
-Elder named receiver seems important

- Since Jonas's dad works at the nursery he gets to see the list of all the newborns.
- the children earn they're bicycles at the nines celebrations

Questions:
- Why can't the kids get they're bikes at an earlier age and why can't they even ride their brothers/sisters bikes at all?
- Why do the December ceremonies mean so so much to everyone and why does it make people feel like they are so important?

Answers :
-Them having a bike symbolised having more freedom. Riding their older brother/sisters bikes was most likely a way of "stealing" which was not allowed in their community
-The december ceremonies meant and mean so much to everyone because that's the way everyone is honoured as they get older and how they receive their jobs/assignments

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Some new characters:
-Jonas
- Asher
-Lily
- Jonas's Mom
- Jonas's Dad
-Need to tell feelings at dinner

Questions:
- Where do they live
- Why are they so afraid about a random aircraft?
- Why do they need to have a rule about taking about they're feelings?

Answers :
-Jonas and his family unit live in a place that is what they thought was a utopia.
-The rule to explain their feelings was a way of showing their way no lying and to show when they started to have their stirrings, because once they started to have stirring they needed to start taking pills so that they could not disagree with the community and their ways of living

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What Is Utopia

Term coined by sir Thomas More in 1516

A community or society possessing desirable or perfect qualities

Examples or Utopia

Garden of Eden

Heaven

Nirvana

What is a dystopia

Greek word meaning anti-utopia

A community or society that is underbale or fighting

The Christian Example

Hell