The Giver Chapter 1 Summary

Jonas cried. A man comes out of his house rushing to save the starving children and offers them food and shelter they kindly accept. Jonas and the man have small talk for a few minutes,

Lowry shows that without any freedom, there are many emotions that cannot be felt. After learning that there were more feelings, emotions, and choices to that could be made from the memories he received, Jonas starts making his own choices, “The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories told him to throw the pill away.

Jonas is the protagonist of the novel and a third-person narrator tells the entire story from Jonas perception of things. He is intelligent, curious, caring, and his thought process is very mature for being 11-13 years old. A good quote portraying both his matureness and his intellect is “If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(97). This is also one of the first signs that he is displeased with the community. Another quote showing his courage and curiosity is "It hurt a lot," Jonas said, "but I'm glad you gave it to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better. What it meant, that there would be

After Jonas was finished with work he and Jack walked back to there house. And JOnas heard a familiar voice behind him.

     Jonas is helping his family take care of a problem newborn. His name is Gabriel, he had problems sleeping at the Nurturing Center. Jonas helps Gabriel sleep by transmitting memories to Gabriel. They become really close. Jonas finds out that Gabriel is in danger of being released. He talks to The Giver and finds out that release means the same thing as death. Jonas gets really mad knowing that his father killed the babies. That was his father’s job. Jonas wants to create a plan to change the community forever.

Jonas wanted to live a different life. In his journey, Jonas travels with Gabriel, the child that was being nurtured by his family. He needed to saved him from being “released”. Together they faced danger and fear but it was just the beginning of a new life in the land of Elsewhere.

Jonas starts out with a very low understanding of what it means to be mature. He has no knowledge of pain, love, or any other emotion. He proves this by acting like a normal child. He plays with his friends after volunteer hours. He attends school on a regular basis. Jonas is a stickler for the rules. He has been told that it is wrong to not follow rules and that there

Promptly afterwards, Jonas seems “stunned at what he was realizing. He continued to stare at the screen numbly” (Lowry 188). Lowry compares Jonas’s innocence when he is first unable to comprehend the actions of his father, to his growing maturity, after he

Jonas has to deal with running away in

Due to Jonas’s harsh mental state, he refused to return to his dwelling and The Giver informed the speaker that Jonas would stay the night for extra training. After eating their evening meal The Giver described a plan to make their community experience feelings again. Jonas agrees to follow the plan but compels The Giver to come. The Giver explains that the community would not be able to handle all the memories that Jonas will leave behind, and he must stay to help them. The next day Jonas reviewed the plan in his mind.

hapter 1 - exposition-The Giver begins in late November, and we meet Jonas, a boy who is nervous about what's going to happen in December. Jonas lives in a place called "The Community". The citizens all have prescribed jobs, like Street Cleaners or Landscape Workers. So he talks about how he's apprehensive about "the Ceremony of Twelve" in December. Plus, we learn about the word “release”.

That feeling of love he had developed with Gabe, made him risk anything to save him experiencing death. By having Jonas escape his community with Gabriel, he will find Elsewhere to return the memories to the

The first thing Jonas sees is the wall of books. in the community, you had only 3 books. Then an old man named The Giver popped up. and directed to the bed in the middle of the room. He told jones The Giver was going to send a memory of snow 12 When the giver put his hands on Jones and he was in a different world. In the memory he felt cold and snowflakes landed on his face,and he saw a sled and ride it down and he woke up on the bed in ohe.

New chapter of The Giver G8 English Yumin Cho Jonas and Gabriel arrived to the new community. They could hear the music sound and people’s joyful sound. After they reached the community, all the memory which they couldn’t even receive from the Giver came into both of them. Because of the long journey, both of Jonas and Gabriel were tired and cold. They found the biggest house in the community.

In this community, age is very important when you are a child. Each year you take another milestone depending on your age. Since Jonas is soon to be twelve he will be attending Ceremony of the Twelves. At this ceremony, you are assigned a job based on your likes, dislikes, and characteristics. Jonas however is given a very important, and rare assignment, The Receiver of Memory.