Dana's+Giver+Response+Activities

Question 1: What was the first colour that Jonas started seeing?
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Sarah's Answer 1: Red Olivia's Answer 1: Red

Question 2: Jonas started seeing beyond when he first became the receiver, what happened to the Giver?

Sarah's Answer 2: He started forgetting all the memories being given to Jonas Olivia's Answer 2: The Giver started hearing beyond

Question 3: What is the Giver's favourite memory?

Sarah's Answer 3: The memory of Christmas/ love/ joy/ happiness Olivia's Answer 3: The Giver's favourite memory is the memory of christmas

Question 4: Why did Jonas have to start taking pills after one of his dreams? What was the dream about?

Sarah's Answer 4: He had to take pills because the dream was a 'bad' dream. The dream was about Fiona getting unchanged in the bath and Jonas bathing her. Olivia's Answer 4: Jonas had to take pills so the stirrings don't come back. The dream was a stirring about Fiona.

Question 5: What message do you think the author was trying to send when she wrote the book?

Sarah's Answer 5: That you should explore your own options instead of believing in something you don't agree with. Olivia's Answer 5: Believe in yourself.

Jonas and Asher were playing catch with an apple when Jonas saw it change somehow. Jonas' father bought a new child home. Jonas had a stirring for Fiona. Jonas was chosen to be the receiver of memory. Jonas was given his new rules. Jonas has his first session with the Giver. Jonas starts seeing all colours, always. Giver tells Jonas what happened with the last receiver. Jonas watches the twins release. Jonas took Gabrielle and went to search for elsewhere. Jonas and Gabe were finding it harder to keep warm and find food the further they got from the community. Jonas took Gabe up one last hill they went down on a sled to elsewhere.
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The Giver is a book that is filled with suspense and things to question. It is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect community. In this community they can't see colours, they can't feel grief, everyone is treated the same way, everyone is polite and courteous and some of the smallest things such as intentionally touching someone on their shoulder is considered rude. Jonas becomes the receiver of memory when the Giver finds that Jonas has the capacity to see beyond and so he starts training soon after the ceremony of 12's. The Giver transmits memories to Jonas to tell him about the outside world, our world. The Giver tries to start with small nice memories to give Jonas like snow and sunshine, then gives him slightly harder ones that hurt like sunburn. Once Jonas was strong enough the Giver started giving him much harder memories like the grief of watching a solider dying. Then one day Jonas gets to watch a release of a small baby and is shocked by what happens. That makes him brake and he and the Giver plan to send Jonas and another new child that was scheduled for release to escape to elsewhere. The Giver is a very emotional book that people have very strong opinions about. It is a great read. The main message I think the book sends out is that changes can be good. Because Jonas lives in a community that is afraid to show people that they can make choices. They are afraid that if people make choices they will make mistakes, but mistakes are part of life. If you don't make mistakes you can't learn what is a good choice ad what is a bad choice, which means you can't see what is the difference between a good change and a bad change. Changes aren't just bad.
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I think that the author’s point of the story was to tell people about change and choices. Throughout the book none of the characters actually got to make any decisions for themselves except for the Giver and Jonas who could because they had the power to see beyond. Towards the end of the book Jonas decided to leave so that the community could learn about elsewhere and get to make their own decisions.
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Jonas is twelve years old. He has pale eyes and wears a tunic. His hair is short.
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