Note: Please Remember to Do the Following

The Giver

Chapters 12 and 13

Note: Please remember to do the following:

o  Answer each question thoroughly

o  Respond to all of the questions (some have two or more)

o  Reference the text and add quotations when appropriate

o  Please type your answers or write them on a separate sheet of paper

o  Please don’t use the following pronouns: I, me, my, you, your, yours, etc.

1. How is Jonas’s dream about the sled ride an example of foreshadowing? Reference the following passage: “Always, in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something – he could not grasp what – that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop” (88).

2. Explain the significance of the following passage: “The basket was on the floor beside him; in its corner, beside Gabriel’s head, the stuffed hippo sat staring with its blank eyes.” Hint: Connect the lifeless hippo to the elephant in Chapter 13.

3. For what reasons do you think the Giver does not answer Jonas’s question about the way he first began to “see beyond”?

4. Why do you think the citizens in the Community aren’t allowed to read books? Dig deep here.

5. Why does Jonas see the color red first (the apple, the sled, Fiona’s hair, and the geraniums)?

6. Why do you think the Community got rid of color? (Hint: What are they actually getting rid of?)

7. Create a title for both chapters.