Brooke Tushman, Riley Meiser, and Olivia Tripoli

In the story The Giver by Lois Lowry the setting takes place in a community. It takes place during a futuristic time. The community is utopian, a perfect community. This community is apart of another community. There are many different buildings in this community.

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Examples are the house of the old, the rehabilitation center, the nurturing center, the annex, and Jonas’ home. After you are a laborer for the middle part of your life you go to the house of the old for the rest of your life. The rehabilitation center is a place you can do your volunteering at to help injured citizens. The nurturing center is where the babies in the community are kept at until they are assigned to their family unit. The annex is the entrance behind the house of the old. Jonas must go there for his job training.

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Jonas is the main character. He seems like a normal boy on the outside, but on the inside he is much more intelligent and observant than most of his friends. He thinks more seriously than they do about life. He worries about his future very cautiously. He enjoys learning new things and is very eager to become “receiver of memory”. Jonas is very caring about his family and always wants to do the right and good thing. He has blue eyes which seems very important to the book. Jonas is a protagonist and is a major character in this book. Jonas is a dynamic person in the book.

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The Giver is an old man known in the community as the Receiver of Memory. The Giver has held the community’s memories for many years and uses his wisdom to help the Committee of Elders make important decisions. He believes that those memories belong in the minds of everyone in the community. The giver is a major character. He is a protagonist. The giver is dynamic because when he gives Jonas bad memories he becomes a happier person.

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This is a picture of the scene where Jonas tells the giver about how he saw the apple change. Jonas saw the apple change because he can see the past and future. This is why he got the job “receiver of memory”. He is a very special kid, who has very special powers.

Asher is Jonas’ best friend. Asher is a good friend and a nice person. He usually speaks too fast. He mixed up his words and his teachers got very upset with him to the point where he would be hit. He is assigned the position of Assistant Director of Recreation. Asher is a minor character in this book. Asher is dynamic because he learns how to behave better throughout the book.

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Fiona is another one of Jonas’ friends. She works as a Caretaker in the House of the Old. She is very nice and patient. Jonas’ first stirrings was a dream about Fiona. Fiona is a minor character. Fiona is static because she stays the same throughout the book.

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Only Jonas can see that she has red hair.

The Chief Elder is the selected elder of Jonas’ community who is head of the elders. She shows care to all the kids at the ceremony of twelve. She knows each one personally and knows how to work well with them. The Chief Elder in a minor character in this book.

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Gabe is the child that Jonas’ family cares for. The family is told not to get attached to him because the family unit should only have two kids. He is easy to care for during the day but Gabriel has trouble sleeping at night unless Jonas puts him to sleep with some memories. He and Jonas become very close. Gabriel is a static character.

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Jonas' Father is the antagonist. He isn’t exactly a bad person, but he opposes the main characters beliefs. He seems like a very nice guy. His job is nurturer. He becomes attached to Gabriel even though he isn’t supposed to because he must be released. The day Gabriel is supposed to be released by the father, Jonas takes him away to “elsewhere”.

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The rising action in this book is when Jonas is selected to become the “Receiver Of Memory”. During the ceremony of twelve when they are getting their assignments, Jonas’ name is skipped. Everyone at the ceremony notices including Jonas. After everyone else was given their jobs they came back to Jonas and presented him with the job of “Receiver Of Memory”. Jonas knew this job was very important to the community and works very hard to go over the rules and do everything right.

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The climax in this book is when Jonas figures out his father releases children. He finds out “a release” is actually killing someone. Jonas gets very angry at his father and wants to change what’s happening in his community.

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The falling action in our story was when Jonas left the town on his bicycle with the new child Gabe. He stays away from search planes, fights his pains, and keeps his hunger under control. He wants to bring feelings and color to his community and bring himself to the world he has dreamed of knowing, “elsewhere”.

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Man vs Society• Jonas and Gabe have to bike out of the

community. They leave because of the law states that Gabe must be released. Jonas doesn’t think the law should allow these things. Being released is actually killing someone. He doesn’t want Gabe to die so he takes him along with him to “elsewhere”. He has to avoid the search planes because doing this is against the law.

Man vs Man• Jonas and his dad think very differently

on how the community should work. Jonas is totally against the idea of a “release”. But his dad does that as his job. He is very upset with his dad for not telling the truth about his job and letting this happen. Because his father does this, he runs away with Gabe.

Man vs Nature • Jonas and Gabe ride a sled to leave the

community they have to face the cold, hills, and snow. These are problems because it increases their chances of getting caught.

Everyone should have the right to individuality and freedom of choice.

• This is shown when The Giver has to keep all of the memories. He is the only individual until Jonas comes and receives some memories. No one in the community is aloud to have memories so they can’t be individuals. They don’t have the choice to have memories or feelings.

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• “It’s the memories of the whole world.” he said with a sigh. “Before you, before me, before the previous receiver and generations before him.”

• This quotes shows that the Giver has to carry memories of generations previous to him, so he’s carrying others peoples’ individuality.

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The resolution was when Jonas ran away from the town with all of the memories of the people. When he does this the memories go back to the community. The elders must turn to the Giver for advice because the community will not know what to do with all these memories. The government will have to give people emotions, which is what Jonas and The Giver want.

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The mood of this novel is apprehensive or anxious feeling. We see through Jonas’ eyes. Jonas’s apprehension is brought to focus when Jonas worries what assignment he will be given during the Ceremony of Twelve. Later, his apprehension problems are more serious. This is when he is nervous about running away from the community but he knows it’s the right thing to do.

“It was almost December and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.” (p.1)

• This shows Jonas is very scared and anxious from the beginning of the book.

“He did not know what his selection meant. He did not know what he was to become. Or what would become of him.” (p.60)

• Jonas is thinking of every possible thing that may happen during his job, you can tell he’s very nervous.

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