The Giver Summary Chapter 14

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 chills out on the bed and waits for the memory of snow. All of a sudden, he's very cold. He can no longer feel the old man's hands on his back. He feels something like pinpricks on his skin, and sticks out his tongue to catch the falling white things. Part of him, he feels, is still lying on the bed in the Annex. But the other part is somewhere else, sitting on a hard surface with a rope in his hands. All of a sudden, he knows that he is surrounded by snow and that he's sitting on a sled. He then races downhill, fast at first, until the snow piles up and the runners come to a standstill. Then he opens his eyes and is back in the room with the old man. The old man says that was tiring for him, but that he feels lightened because

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.

“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.

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

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.

Warmth, Jonas thought. All he could think about was making it to Elsewhere. His feet traveling through snow. His feet were cold;his whole body was cold. “Elsewhere is close ,but maybe my journey will end soon ,” Jonas said.

Intro: “Perfection is just an illusion based on our own perception,” an unknown source has said. In the utopian community that Jonas was living in had tried to make everything perfect and people lived like that for years. But, when Jonas becomes the new receiver he looks at this so called “perfect” community in a whole different way. In the giver written by, Lois Lowry, Jonas grows up and becomes a 12 and learns how to see deeper. The theme is growing up and is showed by the ceremony month, December, Jonas’ little sister, Lily, and the protagonist Jonas.

Jonas informs The Giver that his father had performed the release of a twin earlier in the morning. He wished he could watch the release, which community rules restricted him from doing. The Giver reminded him that his training instructions allowed him to ask anyone for anything. He was also told that all private ceremonies of release were recorded. The Giver compelled Jonas to watch the ceremony of release and then instructed the Speaker to play the video.

In Chapter 17 and 18, Jonas becomes aware of many truths in the community and how thing really work. In Chapter 17 of The Giver, Jonas doesn’t like the “sharing of feelings” ritual because he thinks that it is not the right way to share feelings. He understands that feelings cannot be told, but only felt. Jonas’s attitude towards his friends playing has also changed. He sees Asher and his other friends playing a game of war.

Have you ever considered what happens to a person when they change? In the book 'The Giver', Jonas is similar in a few ways at the end of the book from the start. But why does this matter? When a person goes through difficult experiences, they are still the same in a lot of ways.

In Chapter 13, The Giver transmits a painful memory of an elephant hunt to Jonas, during which an elephant is shot and killed for its tusks. Another elephant walks up to the dead elephant's mutilated body and seemingly comforts the elephant by stroking the dead animal with its trunk and then by covering the elephant with branches. Jonas has never before witnessed or experienced the raw emotional pain that is often felt as a result of the death of a loved one; Jonas has never experienced death.

When Jonas was assigned the role of the receiver he wanted to know more about these memories. So he got The Giver to show him a memory. He realizes how great it is to have the feelings and colors of this lifestyle. But he notices how boring and dull this life he actually lives is. Jonas wants people to experience these memories so he shows people and they want to have those feelings.