The Giver Essay Questions

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APPENDIX E Unit 8: Seeing Beyond Journal Topics: The Giver Chapter 1 1. What do you think of Jonas’s community? What words might you use to describe it? Give reasons for your answers. 2. What rules and punishments are used in Jonas’s society? How does Jonas feel about the rules? 3. Why is Jonas so “careful about language”? How important is it to choose “just the right words” in our society? Explain your answer. 4. How would you feel if your family had “telling of feelings” after dinner every night? 5. What do you think happens when someone is released? Chapter 2 1. There are two instances of rule-breaking in this chapter. Consider each one. Do you feel the punishment was justified? Explain your reasoning.…show more content…
Why is The Giver allowed to have many books while the other members of the community are only allowed three? How are books and memory related? 3. How does The Receiver transmit memories to Jonas? 4. Why do you think Jonas doesn’t know what the words sled, snow, and downhill mean? 5. Why does Jonas have no concept of pain? How would your life be different if you had never experienced pain? Chapter 11 1. Why do you think Jonas must experience the memories rather than just hear about them? 2. Why do you think The Receiver was a little sad after the first day of training? 3. Why does The Giver say “to have memories is a burden”? How does it ease the burden of the Giver to transmit memories to Jonas. 4. Why do you think Jonas’s world eliminated sun, hills, and snow? 5. In what ways do we preserve memories in our society? Chapter 12 1. How does Jonas’s answer to his mother’s question about his sleep and dreams revel a change in him? 2. What do you imagine the change is that Jonas sees in Fiona’s hair and in the faces of the audience and the apple? 3. Why do you think people in the book do not see colors? How has the absence of color helped this society? How has it harmed…show more content…
Do you think it’s better to share sorrows or for each person to try and bear his/her own pain? Explain your answer. 3. Why do you think one of the set of identical twins is always released? 4. How did Jonas give Gabriel a memory? 5. Why do you think Jonas was able to transmit a memory to Gabriel when he couldn’t with Asher, Lily, or his father? Chapter 15 1. How is Jonas now a Giver? 2. How does Jonas help The Giver in this chapter? 3. How does this chapter affect your view of whether it is better to share memories or bear them alone? 4. Do you think The Giver needs to ask Jonas’s forgiveness? If you were Jonas, what would you have said in response to The Giver’s request for forgiveness? Why? 5. How do you think Jonas will feel about The Giver and his Assignment now? Chapter 16 1. How does Jonas learn of love? 2. What clues help you to infer what the unnamed celebration was? When were you certain? 3. Compare the treatment of the Old in the community to their treatment in the family scene Jonas receives as a memory. In your opinion, which shows more care and respect for the aged? Explain your thinking. 4. Do you agree with Jonas that living the way they did in the memory was dangerous? Why or why

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