Dana's+Giver+Review+Questions

Review Questions:__** 1. In Chapter 1 Jonas felt apprehensive about turning 12. 2. In Chapter 2 Jonas' parents reassure him about his worries about turning 12 and him might not liking his assignment. 3. In Chapter 3 Asher and Jonas were playing catch with an apple. When it was zooming through the air back to Jonas it changed. It was still an apple but it just looked different. The next second it was a normal apple again. 4. In the house of the old in Chapter 4 Jonas had to wash an old lady in the bath. 5. In Chapter 5 Jonas had a stirring while he was dreaming. Because of this he had to take pills so that he couldn't have children with that person or anyone else. 6. The ceremony that is held in the community auditorium every year is to celebrate the children getting a year older and for the 11's turning into 12's to celebrate their childhood because they are now considered adults. 7. As the chief elder was giving out assignments she skips Jonas and continues with the rest of the 11's. Once she had been through all the other 11's, she came back to Jonas and said he had been selected for a special assignment. 8. Jonas was selected to be the receiver of memory. When Jonas reacted he was surprised and a little nervous when they mentioned physical pain. When the audience reacted they were a bit confused and it resulted in a few gasps but then they started chanting his name getting louder and louder meaning they accepted him. 1. Some of the positive aspects about Jonas' community are that you can trust everyone, there is no bullying, vandalism, robberies etc. Also no-one is ever hungry and everyone is treated evenly. 2. Some of the negative aspects are that in the community they don't really know any thing about the outside world, our world and then when your old enough you don't get to choose your own job. 3. Some adjectives I would use to describe Jonas' family would be caring because they try and help each other through some of the not so nice feelings that humans go through. Understanding because they always see reasons that the person maybe feeling that way but see another side to those feelings as well and help them through it. Loving because they seem to look after one another the way any //normal// family would. 4. Members from the society under 12 must do volunteer hours so that the council of elders can see what jobs the children are interested in. I think this is a bad idea because then you don't really get to make any choices, therefore no mistakes that you can learn from. __**Chapters 9-12:**__ __**Review Questions:**__ 1. Two of the rules that disturbs Jonas are that he is not allowed to tell anyone of his training and that he is allowed to lie. One rule that does not disturb Jonas is that he doesn't have to do dream telling. 2. The Givers house is different from the rest because he is allowed to lock his doors, he can turn off the speaker so that no-one can hear him and he has a lot of books in his room. 3. The actual process for transmitting memories is that Jonas has to take off his tunic and lay face down on the bed. Then the Giver places his hands on Jonas' back and passes his memories through to Jonas. The first memory Jonas received was of Snow. 4. The 3 memories that Jonas receives in Chapter 11 were of the Snow with the sled, the hills, the cold, the snowflakes and the adrenaline rush on the way down. The 2nd was of Sunshine with the warmth then the sunburn and the 3rd memory was of the rainbow. All the colours in the clear blue sky. 5. What really happened on the day with Asher and the apple was that him and Jonas were playing catch and when it was on its way back to Jonas it changed. When it changed Jonas was just starting to see the colour red. 1. I agree that we should learn about history and the past because we can learn from it. We can also learn to expand our technologies from what people have used in the past. It can also be very interesting to learn what our ancestors. Also memories of the past are things that make us what we are. If you hear that someone got burnt at the stake with false accusations you wouldn't feel very good but if you heard a nice story of someones past you would feel good. 2. I think that it will be impossible for everyone to be treated equally when they are not the same. If everyone was equal they would have to have the same equality in their job which means that there would be no-one in charge because then not everyone would be equal. If this happened there would be no order in anyone because no-one would be able to take charge and lead so that everyone did what the were told. It wouldn't be equal. Also children and adults would have the same equality which would mean that children would have to be very mature from a very young age or the adults wouldn't have any maturity at all and the community would fall to pieces in a matter of hours. 3. I agree that a world without pain would be a bad thing because if you don't feel pain then you couldn't learn. If you feel off your bike and scraped your knee because you were biking with no hands you would learn that that was probably a mistake and you would fix it, you would learn from it. Also you wouldn't be able to feel emotional pain you wouldn't feel sad if a very close friend or family member died. Some people might say that that's a good thing but if you can't feel the sad things who's to say you can't feel the happy things as well. You wouldn't be able to feel the joy of unwrapping presents on Christmas Day of feeling really good when you first rode your bike without training wheels. You wouldn't be able to feel. Without feeling you would have no personality. Without a personality you would be empty. 1. The 2nd most terrible memory that the Giver transmits to Jonas was of war and dying soldiers. 2. Jonas' method to get Gabrielle to sleep through the night was to transmit memories of things such as tiredness or if it was cold warmth then Gabe would fall asleep in his arms. 3. The extremely bad memory that the Giver transmits to Jonas in Chapter 15 was of Rosemary releasing herself. 4. The Givers favourite memory that he shares with Jonas are of Christmas, the big green tree decorated with twinkling lights with a star on the top of it. Children, Parents, and Grandparents eating great feasts and opening presents. That family had Grandparents there when in Jonas' community they don't. They also have a happy and loving in a much different way to Jonas' community. 5. If Jonas were to fall into the river and drown accidentally then all his memories would be released into the community and everyone would become frightened and panicked and it would be a catastrophe. 6. The real and true definition of release is called Euthanasia. This means you are injected with a clear liquid that kills you. 7. When the Giver was young he had the gift of hearing beyond and not seeing beyond and this meant he heard things that the community couldn't such as music. 8. The plan that Jonas and the Giver came up with to release memories back into the community was that Jonas would take Gabrielle and his fathers bike and bike. They would go searching for elsewhere where they would be safe and as Jonas was biking memories would slowly be given back to the community. 9. The plan went wrong when Jonas wasn't prepared for the conditions outdoors. When it began to snow they got so cold they were near death and when they weren't near fields of food they became near starvation. 10. In the last 2 chapters of the book Jonas and Gabrielle were so close to death. They were cold from the snow, they were starving from the coldness preventing food from growing but when they finally reached elsewhere they //really// saw Christmas for the first time. 1. If I came across Jonas' community and found that there was no suffering, no poverty, no pain and no war, a community that was peaceful and perfect I would consider telling them about war and pain because then they would actually have something they could live for. If you don't live because you know your going to die then your not really living for anything. Reasons that I wouldn't tell them would be because telling them these things would probably cause panic and then such a well constructed community would fall to pieces if you weren't able to set things right again. Overall I probably would tell the community about such things as pain. I would tell them by showing them things that would make them believe me, I mean you wouldn't happen across a community with absolutely nothing unless you weren't able to carry anything. 2. In my opinion the worst parts of Jonas' community are that they can't see colour, they feel no pain and they can't choose things for themselves. If you see no colour but have seen it before then you can appreciate what colour does to us. It helps us define things better but it can also represent how we feel for example red is anger etc. If you feel no pain whats to say you can't feel joy either. You wouldn't be able to opinionate things and you would be personality-less. You feel nothing you would just be a person without a soul. If you had no choices, you wouldn't be able to make mistakes to learn from and then all of a sudden you get the choice to choose something and you would be clueless about what to do. 3. The main message that I think what the author was trying to send is that changes can be good. You can make bad decisions an also make good ones. Jonas' community had no colour, no hills, no-one was ever starving and no-one ever felt emotional pain. They did this so that everyone would be safe and no-one would get hurt from making the wrong decisions. But the thing is that if you don't make decisions and mistakes, you can't learn things. There is always a chance to fix mistakes or change them back if it doesn't work out. Never give up hope.
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