Chapter Summary: The Giver

For the first time,he heard something that he knew to be music.He heard people singing. Jonas wipes his eyes and still saw the lights and houses with all the pretty lights.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. As, Jonas and Gabriel were heading down the hill, jonas realized that he had no way of stopping the sled when they were near the town. He was trying to figure out a way but it was too late to try and stop the sled.

Jonas was suddenly filled with a new strength as he picked up Gabriel and trudged through the deep snow. He walked on towards the music that seemed to him to be the most beautiful thing in the world.

The chapters 1-5 in “The Giver” takes us through the details of the “utopian” society in which Jonas lives. We find elaborate details of what this society believed in, and how was their day to day life. The Committee of Elders keeps the community captivated and controls meticulously to the minor to microscopic details of the society. Chapters 1-5 of “The Giver” keeps me very intrigued and bewildered, because it made me wonder, who would ever make the animals of the earth as mystical creatures. Why do they make animals like the hippo and elephant imaginary to them? Do they feel that if the animals are not regarded mystical they can cause ominous results to their society? I also found it strange how Jonas is fascinated by the pale eye color when

Jonas awoke, each breath he took was deep and exhausting through his icy numb shell of a body. Red, green , red, green, that's what colors the lights were as the flickered on the second. He instinctively hugged the door like a sloth, still clutching Gabriel, begging for a

In The Giver, Jonas’ world is turned upside down when he is chosen to be the next receiver of his community. The ceremony of twelves is the last ceremony of the day. Jonas waited anxiously for his name to be called; he never hears it. The chief elder has made a mistake. Jonas now has to learn that everything he has been taught was not always the same and it ages him years.

Lord, Elyse. "Overview of The Giver." Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. Elyse Lord is one of the many critics who describe “The Giver” as terrifying but offering “hope and a constructive view” of the Utopian world in the book. She explains that other critics praise the book with many awards such as the Newberry Medal. Lord goes on to reason that the story is favored by different readers for its complexity, symbolism, metaphors, ambiguous ending, and can be compared similarly to classic science fiction like “Brave New World” and “Fahrenheit 451.” Contradicting this statement, Lord says that ‘librarians’, ‘educators’, and ‘students’ debate “The Giver” to be censored from public schools around the world because of its graphic scenes and ideas of infanticide and euthanasia. This includes the time Jonas witnessed his father murder a baby and throw it down a trash chute in cold blood. This is ironical compared to the language, emotion, and behaviors being censored in Jonas’s ‘Utopian’ society. Lord argues this through Anna Cerbasi of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, who asked the school board to remove a book that was about a family murdering their child for crying at night and called the book inappropriate for the sixth grade. Lord raises the question of who is to “decide which books are appropriate for which children,” and argues that it cannot be answered with not one but the many books integrated in school curricula that compose

in the book the giver the author Lois lowry tells about a dystopian society and about a boy named jonas and his friends fiona and asher. in a dystopian society you can't do what you want and there are very many rules you have to follow. jonas lives with his MOMMY, DADDY, and his sister. even though that's not jonas's real family it's the family he was chosen to go live with.

“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”

The poem, "Dulce Et Decorum Est", and chapter 15 of "The Giver" develops many underlying themes and imagery. A theme developed through the two writings is related to lightning bolts. Also, the imagery used in the two writings is very harsh-seeming to develop the theme.

The echo continued to ring in Jonas’s ear, a sound of hope. It seemed unimaginable in the vast empty landscape that stood before him.

But perhaps it was only an echo. Sitting there in the sled looking upon the people in his Christmas memory but this time it wasn’t a memory it was real life. His parents & grandparents were was standing there in the night holding candles singing carols of old. He got out and they hugged him as if they got back from a trip far away and finally returned. All the sudden the parents grabbed Gabe while the grandparents grabbed Joneses hand and they walked to their house that was just around the corner. At that moment neither Gabe or Jonas were cold or scared of these people. In fact they forgot they lived in the community. They felt as if those were their real family members. On the way to the house they asked where the two went and why they didn’t

With the sound of music flowing through Jonas’s ears, Jonas sped down the hill; anticipating the reaction of the people waiting for him below. Somehow, Jonas knew this would work out. He knew that Gabe would survive, that he would have family and friends to love and that they would love him back. Jonas could feel someone helping through this. Maybe it was the Giver. All Jonas knew was that he could feel love in the air.

Jonas felt the cold snow biting his nose. The cold wind howling, trees croaking, and...and the sound of music was in his ears. He knew that it was real, and that it was coming from that log cabin that was now right in front of him. He tried to stand up but he was just too weak. He just fell down on the cold, wet, snow. He had given all his warm memories to gabriel just to keep him alive. Then it all went black.

The first five chapters of “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, were queer and predominantly talks about the community. These chapters made me feel that the government over rules and dominates the people. First of all, the government entrusts people a job, instead of letting the people determine what they want to become. Secondly, the government gives people a spouse, shouldn’t the people get to select who they want to marry? After reading these chapters, I was surprised by the fact that no one strikes for their rights. How can people live with these sorts of strict rules? So far of reading the novel makes me predict that Jonas will come to perceive a secret of the government or otherwise known as Committee of Elders. Jonas will try to apprise the people