The Giver Chapter 1 Summary

In The Giver, everything and everyone within the community look the same, and everything revolves around sameness. At the ceremony of twelve, Jonas receives the assignment as the next Giver, which represents the most honored assignment in the community. Jonas learns the “ Rules” of the receiver and begins receiving memories of the past, such as weather and feelings. Jonas begins to experience pain and suffering, and learns that the last receiver, Rosemary, asked for a release. A new child comes to live with Jonas, and Jonas transmits memories to him so he can fall asleep. Jonas begins to see the color red, and The Giver transmits different colors. Jonas begins to see the color red, and The Giver transmits different colors. Jonas continues

“You have made a terrible mistake.” The Chief Elder uttered in shock, her tongue cutting short of a hiss.

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.

But the Giver stopped talking as Jonas walked away. There was nothing the Giver could do. He just had to give Jonas some time, so he walked into the kitchen and got some food for Jonas and Gabriel. Jonas was sitting on the couch, frazzled when the Giver walked in with a platter of apple slices, two cups of water, and a small bowl of tiny cookies for Gabriel. Gabriel still hasn’t moved at all. Not one bit, but Jonas was too preoccupied hating himself for what he had done. For what he had done to his friends and a whole community.

The Giver knows that if he leaves all the memories will be released causing a ruckus in the society and all his memories of pain and death to be experienced by the people. He knows this will happen because when a receiver of memory(Rosemary) was released all of her memories were as well and the society was panicking and nothing was in control. But he is also preventing them from feelings and color and things like snow which is bad because then they don't know who the are basically they are like robots. They don't know that they are killing people when they get released that is all impossible due to the society. HE has the power to do so but doesn't keep all the good and bad memories for himself. And when Jonas comes and tells him all the things wrong he's like oh ya and helps Jonas escape causing him his life if anyone figures out he was

The Giver knows that the burden of memory is too much for Jonas to bear, so he and Jonas plan Jonas’ escape. In the escape, The Giver plans to leave Jonas with memories of courage and strength so that he can make his journey to freedom. The plan changes when Jonas finds that Gabriel, an infant the family had been caring for was going to be “released” the next morning. Upon hearing the news, Jonas takes Gabriel and flees The Community. The book ends with Jonas hearing music, which symbolizes finding his

“Jonas has not been assigned,” She informed the crowd, and his heart sank. Then she went on. “Jonas has been selected.” The quote pertained to this story due to the significance that Jonas had differentiated from his peers that had their differences acknowledged by the Elders themselves, each with their own desires within a career. The quote influenced Jonas his decisions within the chapters beyond the quote within the story, nevertheless brought Jonas his viewpoint of the situation and his decision into escaping from the community with Gabe to journey off Elsewhere. For example, Gabe had been planned for release the same day Jonas had escaped from the community, due to Jonas’ significant viewpoints he couldn’t bare the loss of Gabe, especially since he would be the only few to discover the true meaning behind being “released.” In the end of “The Giver,” Jonas and Gabriel had hallucinated while freezing to death because of the wild berries, the memories, and the physical limits of his human body.

In the book written by Lois Lowry, The Giver, on page 148 it says, “ The little twin lay motionless.” Two paragraphs after that on page 148 it states, “He killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to himself, stunned at what he was realizing. He continued to stare at the screen numbly.” This evidence shows, for Jonas it was a real wake up call for him to finally realize what release meant. His dad had conjured in Jonas’s mind that release meant to go to elsewhere. Memories are hard, but people can get through them with help of others. This helps people understand what is going on so they can prepare for something again like it in the future.

In the book The Giver Jonas has a really complicated relationships with his father. It all started when his father told him about release but lied about it. Jonas thought that the people getting released would go to a happy place, but actually his father kills them with a shot then dumps them in the garbage. The Giver showed Jonas a video about the truth of the release because his father told him a lie. Jonas was very displeased when he found out what his dad does at a release and could not get pass the thought that his dad was a liar. Jonas can trust the giver because the Giver has never lied to Jonas and his dad has. This related in Jonas to have trust issues with other people.

A. In Jonas’ Utopia they are given a pill to make the Stirrings go away so they are not attracted to a certain person.

Lea Vilna-Santos Mrs. English, 7th September 1st, 2015 The Giver, by: Lois Lowry Entry Log 8: Chapters 15-16: Questions 6 and 7: In Chapters 15-16, Jonas shows signs of change and of coming of age when the Giver shows him a memory of love and family, but when he asks his parents if they love him they give Jonas a brief lesson on Precision of Language. Jonas starts showing that he wants to change their community. It all started when the Giver transmitted his favorite memory that Jonas loves.

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.

The antagonist in the novel The Giver is the Committee of Elders, which is the government of Jonas’s community. In dystopian novels, the antagonists are usually the leaders of the government oppressing the protagonist, such as President Snow in The Hunger Games. This is the same in The Giver, as the Committee of Elders leads the government and oppresses the citizens of their community to “sameness.” This is the opposition to Jonas’s goal in the book, which is to give the citizens of the community color and love, and get away from “sameness.” Therefore, the Committee of Elders is the antagonist in the novel The Giver.

The fiction book I chose to read was Birthmarked by Caragh O’Brien. This book reminded me of The Giver by Lois Lowry, which we read in school last year. One of the main reasons they appeared similar to me is that they both focus on dystopian societies. In The Giver, the main character was a boy inside the community, but in Birthmarked, it was a girl outside the community. Another reason they reminded me of each other was that toward the beginning of each story, the main characters were both relatively happy with their lives, and didn’t see any flaws in the society (It still seemed Utopian to them).

While many prevailing themes exist in The Giver, the novel’s rising action and climax center around saving young children that are deemed to be not good enough to live by the elite. In the society presented in The Giver, deliberate killing of individuals the elite members feel are “not worthy” is not considered murder; instead it is considered “release”. The members do everything in their power to ensure that babies are born perfect. They even go as far as to having engineers create the “right” kind of baby, one that fits within the society and is the same as the others. Twins cannot exist in the society, for no two people can look alike. In a lighthearted chapter of the novel, Lowry describes a scene through the lens of pro-life. Two workers in the Nurturing Center are weighing a set of twins, the baby that weighs lower than the other will be “released” from the society. Both of the workers actually joke about this process and place bets on which child they think will “win” the contest. Soon we see what “release” really is when the Giver lets Jonas see the scene of release, which is at the hand of Jonas’ father, a worker in the Nurturing Center. While sticking a long needle in the baby’s forehead, Jonas’ father says, “Bye, bye little guy” in a song voice before killing the baby. This child died because he weighed a little less than his twin brother. As Jonas witnesses the scene, he is horrified, saying, “He killed him!” The