Chapter 11, p. 80-87
Plot Events
1. “And he could see, although his eyes were closed
2. “That’s right. A little weight off this old body.”
3. “But what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it?”
4. “Ouch…”
Vocabulary
obsolete, page 84. Sentence from chapter ___________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _________________________________________
unwieldy, page 84. Sentence from chapter ___________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _________________________________________
Literary technique: Foreshadowing
Definition: little hints that help a careful reader predict what will happen in the future.
“Honor. ..I have great honor. So will you. But you will find that is not the same as
power,” p. 84
Explain what this quotation might foreshadow later in the story and why you think this.
(3 sentences minimum) One of your sentences must be a complex sentence. Highlight it.
Chapter 12, p. 88-96
Plot Events
1. “There was no way to describe to his friends what he had experienced in the Annex room.”
2. “…did you know that they use a discipline wand on the old, the same as for small children?”
3. “It had happened again: the thing that he thought of now as ‘seeing beyond.’ “
4. “Hair like Fiona’s must drive them crazy.”
Vocabulary
significant, page 88. Sentence from chapter:__________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _________________________________________
phenomenon, page 91. Sentence from chapter _______________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _________________________________________
Capacity, page 95. Sentence from chapter:____________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _________________________________________
Relinquished, p. 95. Sentence from chapter __________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _________________________________________
Literary technique: Foreshadowing
Definition: little hints that help a careful reader predict what will happen in the future.
“You’ve come very quickly to that conclusion.” Explain the conclusion that Jonas comes to and describe
his feelings about this conclusion.
Explain how this conclusion helps foreshadow something that Jonas may do in the future?
Literary technique: symbolism
Symbolism: when something physical represents an idea or concept
Explain the importance of the rainbow (at the end of the chapter) as a symbol in this book.
Based on this chapter, questions, ideas, connections I have so far about this story are:
Chapter 13, p. 97-107
Plot Events
1. “It isn’t fair…”
2. “Very frightening. I can’t even imagine it. We really have to protect people…”
3. “…then it reached up, broke some leafy branches with a snap, and draped them over the mass of torn,
thick flesh.”
4. “I apologize for hurting you, Lily.”
5. “ ‘They know nothing,’ The Giver said bitterly.”
Vocabulary Words in this chapter
mutilated, page 100. Sentence from chapter ________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
skeptically, page 101. Sentence from chapter:________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
successor, p. 104. Sentence from chapter ___________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
assimilated, page 104. Sentence from chapter:______________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _______________________________________
Literary technique: Foreshadowing
Definition: little hints that help a careful reader predict what will happen in the future.
Explain what the following quotation may foreshadow later in the story and why you
think this.
“He wondered what lay in the far distance where he had never gone. The land didn’t end beyond those
nearby communities. Where there hills Elsewhere?”
Based on this chapter, questions, ideas, connections I have so far about this story are:
Chapter 15, p. 118-220
Plot Events
1. “The Giver looked away, as if he could not bear to see what he had done to Jonas. ‘Forgive me,’ he
said.”
Vocabulary Words in this chapter
contorted, page 118. Sentence from chapter:________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _______________________________________
carnage, page 119. Sentence from chapter:__________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
Author’s Purpose:
The author chose to create this very short chapter instead of adding this scene to others. Explain the
effects of setting this scene off by itself. What important ideas about the story does this emphasize?
Based on this chapter, questions, ideas, connections I have so far about this story are:
Chapter 16, p. 121-129
Plot Events
1. “…he perceived the bond between animals and humans.”
2. “Jonas felt the joy of it as soon as it began.”
3. “It was a word and concept new to him.”
4. “It was his first lie to his parents.”
Vocabulary
luxuriating, page 123. Sentence from chapter:________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
obsolete, page 127. Sentence from chapter:_________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
The Giver shares with Jonas the memories of birthday parties, art museums, and walking through the
woods. Explain the importance of these three experiences and why each would be forbidden in Jonas’s
Community. (Four sentences minimum). Use a complex sentence and highlight it.
“The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that
had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.” Explain why you think Jonas’s
action is significant. (Three sentences minimum.) Use a compound sentence using a semicolon and
highlight it.
Based on this chapter, questions, ideas, connections I have so far about this story are:
Chapter 17, p. 130-138
Plot Events
1. “ ‘Don’t play it anymore,’ Jonas pleaded.”
2. “The twins are being born tomorrow, and the test results show that they’re identical.”
Vocabulary
permeated, page 131. Sentence from chapter:_______________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
postures, page 133. Sentence from chapter:_________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________
warily, page 134. Sentence from chapter:____________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
“…Now he saw the familiar, wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the color and
light and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there
was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going, (page 131).
Based on this quotation, how does Jonas view the river differently from the way he used to view it before
he gained the memories? Also, explain why you think this quotation may be foreshadowing or symbolic in
the story. (4 sentence minimum) Use a compound sentence with a semicolon and highlight the sentence.
Based on this chapter, questions, ideas, connections I have so far about this story are:
Chapter 18, p. 139-145
Plot Events
1. “Her name was Rosemary.”
2. “I’m glad you’re a good swimmer, Jonas. But stay away from the river.”
Vocabulary
dejected, page 139. Sentence from chapter:_________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
Self-possessed, page 140. Sentence from chapter:_____________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
ruefully, page 141. Sentence from chapter:__________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
imploringly, page 142. Sentence from chapter:______________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ______________________________________
Based on this chapter, questions, ideas, connections I have so far about this story are:
Chapter 19, p. 146-151
Plot Events
1. “He was astonished and delighted that this was available to him, and surprised that he had not
known,” page 147.
2. “Now he cleans him up and makes him comfy,” Jonas told him. “He told me.”
3. “With an odd, shocked feeling, Jonas recognized the gestures and posture and expression.”
4. “Bye-bye, little guy…”
Vocabulary
access, page 147. Sentence from chapter:___________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
receptacle, page 150. Sentence from chapter:________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
Literary Term: Irony
“His father was such a gentle man,” (page 146). After reading the chapter, explain the irony of Jonas’s
statement.
Explain how this irony applies to the entire Community.
Based on this chapter, questions, ideas, connections I have so far about this story are:
Chapter 20, p. 152-162
Plot Events
1. “Listen to me, Jonas. They can’t help it. They know nothing.”
2. “‘Now for the first time I think there might be a way.’ Jonas watched him, and listened.”
3. “NO, Giver, I want you to keep that, to have with you when…”
4. “Her name was Rosemary.”
Vocabulary
successor, page 153. Sentence from chapter:_________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
emphatically, page 157. Sentence from chapter:______________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
apparent, page 160. Sentence from chapter:_________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
solace, page 161. Sentence from chapter:___________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
Based on this chapter, questions, ideas, connections I have so far about this story are:
Chapter 21, p. 163-170
Plot Events
1. “But that evening everything changed. All of it…fell apart.”
2. “He thought of the rules he had broken so far…First: _________________________________________
___________________Second: ____________________________________________________________
Third: ________________________________________________________________________________
And: _________________________________________________________________________________
3. “So always, when he heard the aircraft sound, he…transmitted memories of snow…“
Vocabulary
transgression, page 165. Sentence from chapter:_____________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _______________________________________
languid, page 166. Sentence from chapter:__________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _______________________________________
foliage, page 169. Sentence from chapter:___________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ________________________________________
vigilant, page 170. Sentence from chapter:_____________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ______________________________________
haphazard, page 170. Sentence from chapter:_____________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ______________________________________
Based on this chapter, questions, ideas, connections I have so far about this story are:
Chapter 22, p. 171-174
Plot Events
1. “All of it was new to him. After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that
lay beyond each curve of the road.”
2. “Jonas remembered, suddenly and grimly, the time in his childhood when he had been chastised for
misusing a word. The word had been…”
Literary Term: Symbolism
“The road was narrower, and bumpy, apparently no longer tended by road crews. It
was harder, suddenly, to balance on the bike, as the front wheel wobbled over stones
and ruts, (page 171).”
How can a road symbolize life? ___________________________________________________________
Explain how the author is using the physical setting of the road to describe Jonas’s conflict.
“Trees became more numerous, and the forests beside the road were dark and thick
with mystery, (page 171).”
Based on what we have learned in class, a Forest can symbolize:
Using what we have learned in class about the ancient symbolism of the Forest, explain how the author
is using the setting of the Forest in The Giver to describe Jonas’s conflict.
Vocabulary
Tentatively, page 171. Sentence from chapter:_______________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _______________________________________
Exquisite, page 172. Sentence from chapter:________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ______________________________________
Cultivated, page 172. Sentence from chapter:______________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ______________________________________
Meager, page 173. Sentence from chapter:________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ______________________________________
makeshift, page 173. Sentence from chapter:______________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition ______________________________________
Based on this chapter, questions, ideas, connections I have so far about this story are:
Chapter 23, p. 175-180
Plot Events
1. “Yet he felt it.”
2. “The top of the hill seemed so far away, and he did not know what lay beyond.”
3. “He forced his eyes open as they went downward, downward, sliding, and all at once he could see
lights…”
4. “Behind him, across vast distances of space and time….he thought he heard music too…”
Literary Term: Symbolism
“As Jonas watched, a snowflake drifted down and was caught briefly for a moment’s
sparkle in the tiny fluttering eyelashes,” page 176).
What does a single snowflake symbolize? __________________________________________________
Explain how the author uses this symbolism to show the importance of Jonas’s and Gabriel’s
relationship in this scene.
The setting of the snow-covered hill is the most important feature in this final chapter.
What does a hill or a mountain symbolize?
Using your knowledge of this symbolism, explain how the author uses the hill in this
chapter to give Jonas’s experience meaning and power (6-7 sentences).
What do you think is important about the ending? What do you think happens at the end?
(Note: you weren’t asked if you liked the ending or not, although you may certainly express your
opinion too!)
Vocabulary
impeded, page 177. Sentence from chapter:_________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _______________________________________
How it’s used in the chapter: _____________________________________________________________
summit, page 178. Sentence from chapter:__________________________________________________
_____________________________________Definition _______________________________________
How it’s used in the chapter: _____________________________________________________________
Final thoughts, questions, or ideas: