Chapter Summary: The Giver

“You’re not the same individual you were a year ago, a month ago, a week ago. You’re always growing experiences so don’t stop. That’s life” (Jorge Infante).

“Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo”

As Jonas reached the bottom of the hill with Gabe. He spotted a house, He took Gabe and knocked on the door of the house. An Elderly woman answered the door, “H-Hello?” She stuttered. Hi There, said Jonas. Mind if I come in? Not at all my child, Said the elderly woman.

Love is one of the most important things you will see and feel everyday. Would you want to live a life without it? In The Giver by Lois Lowry there is no such thing as love, hate, or feelings and no one has the ability to know about these feelings because they do not have memories. A boy named Jonas is chosen to be the receiver of his community, and is taught about the importance of love with memories from The Giver. Jonas proves his love for the community in many ways such as caring for Gabe, Fiona, The Giver, and leaving the community to give everyone else the memories. Jonas and the Giver are the only people that can feel love, and this causes Jonas to act differently around his friends and family. Although most people around Jonas can’t feel love, he finds ways to get around that and act in a new, loving way. Once Jonas learns enough about love, he realizes that a life without it is meaningless.

In our world, people use different languages to communicate with each other and to interact with one another to get to know each other or to just talk. Meanwhile in the giver there is a language known as the language of Utopia. In the language of utopia they use words like nurturer elder or release. These words have meanings in our world to that are very similar, and consist of the same things we do in our daily life. These are the meanings of them.

Imagine yourself in a world without feelings, colors, and basic things in our world. That is called sameness-- a word all too familiar to the people in a community. The Giver by Lois Lowry is the basis of this topic. The genre of The Giver is science fiction. The story is set in a place that has sameness. The community has receivers and the elders of the community pick jobs or assignments that the younger people of the community do for the rest of their lives. There is a twelve year old boy named Jonas that is trying to change his community back to a normal forever. Jonas is the real giver in the book because he gives to Gabe, the Reviver and his community.

Jonas thinks that kids in the ceremony of 12 shoudn't take the pills. When jonas grow up he began to change in many ways he had to take he pills that everyone else had to take . jonas liked the way he felt before he had started taking them pills and jonas was wow by the sitution.

Jonas and Gabe were alone and they didn’t have a dwelling because it destroyed because it was really old so they didn't know what to do? So Jonas was trying to ask someone to go stay with him until they find dwelling to live in but the guy said refused.

Jonas finally reached the summit of the hill. Feeling the warmth of happiness to have the feeling of being so close, he continued on strong and excited again. His family unit, friends, and Giver came to mind.

Jonas feels uneasy, but he knows that "frightened" is not the correct word. He has been truly frightened only once before, when a plane flew off course over the community a year ago. During the incident, an announcement over the speakers ordered everyone inside, and Jonas had been afraid as he saw the silent, waiting community. However, the speakers soon explained that a Pilot-in-Training had made a navigational mistake and that the pilot would be released from the community for his error, which is the worst possible fate for members of the community. Upon recalling this event, Jonas confirms that his current feelings do not represent fear. He remembers that his teachers have taught him to be careful with his terminology, unlike his friend Asher, who often uses the wrong word, and he decides that rather than feeling frightened, he feels apprehensive about upcoming events this December.

Have you ever wanted to live in a perfect world, where there is no hurt or pain? Well in the book “The Giver” Jonas thought that living in a perfect world would be easy and fun, not knowing that it was many consequences living in such a perfect world. In our society today we have laws that we have to abide by but not quite strict laws that Jonas had. In Jonas world they were pretty much controlled by the government they didn’t have a say so in things in life. They were forced to learn independence at the age of seven.

Hook: /have you ever wondered how it would be like to get the most important job in your community.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Jonas has still been going down in the sled, still hearing the music. He saw people, lots of them all inside together in their homes. He saw a green tree lit with different colored lights and as he was going down the hill he smelled all different kinds of food which only made him hungrier. He remembered the memory that the Giver gave him about the family all being together and how they loved each other, he remembered the food, he saw the smoke coming out of the chimney so they must have had a fire going. Jonas screamed out “Christmas!!”.

Chapter 11- The Giver places his hands on Jonas and gives him his first real memory. A the beginning, Jonas is scared he will fall asleep. He was suddenly cold, and the air was changing. His breath was cold, his tongue suddenly touched the cold air. He was now filled with energy he was no longer frightened. The hands are no longer felt on Jonas’s back. Jonas sticks out his tongue and catches a snowflake on his tongue. The sensation makes him smile. Half his brain knows that he was still in the Annex Room, but the other half was now in a new world, sitting atop of a flat hard surface- a sled. His hands now felt a rough damp rope he could see. He knew his eyes were actually closed, but cold air swirled around him feeling like cold fur. He could see his breath, he now perceived the word snow. He was high up, but he sat on the hard flat object. Then he perceived the word sled. He now perceives the word hill. He felt himself going downhill, he did not need a voice to explain the experience. The experience explains itself. His face rips through the cold air. He is perceiving new words as he slides down the hill. He can feel the hill-flattening, nearing the bottom. The motion slows, and snow piles around the sled. Jonas pushes his body, moving it forward. He did not want the ride to end, but the snow was too thick and heavy, piling fast, for the sled to continue moving. The memory is over. The Receiver tells Jonas that this memory is a far memory, there were many receivers before

Jonas. An interestingly vague character. As the story starts we get almost no background. Yet as the story progresses we learn more, and more about his life. Past, Present, and Future. He never knew his true parents, and was essentially adopted by his current family. He has one sister and two parents. He is 11, I believe, at the beginning of the story, and is tentatively awaiting the ceremony of the 12’s. The coming of age ceremony in his society. Being supposedly “chosen” by an anonymous council, becoming essentially the keeper, or more accurately the receiver, in his (presumably post- apocalyptic) civilization. To fulfil this calling, he must go through pain, trials, threats, and many people lurking, and watching. After many months of training he unearths