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The Giver - Chapters 22-23

Note: Please remember to do the following:

  • Answer each question thoroughly.
  • Respond to all of the questions (some have two or more).
  • Reference the text and add quotations when appropriate.
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Chapter 22

  1. Jonas is frustrated in this chapter because he is starving and cannot find enough food for Gabriel and himself, which he knows would have never happened in the community. . However, he is still glad that he left the community. Explain why using a quote and an explanation.

Chapter 23

  1. What do you think is the source of the “special knowledge” deep inside of Jonas that tellshim they are near the “final destination, the place that he had always felt was waiting” (224)?
  1. Look closely at the following passages:

“Gabriel cried because he was hungry and cold and terribly weak. Jonas cried, too, for the same reasons, and another reason as well. He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself” (218).

“For a fleeting second he felt that he wanted to keep it for himself, to let himself bathe in sunlight, unburdened by anything or anyone else. But the moment passed and was followed by an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share warmth with the one person left for him to love” (221).

How do these passages reveal the effect that Jonas’s year of training has had upon him?

  1. Conflict is the basis of the plot in most literature. Explain which form of conflict is most evident in The Giver. (Examples: character vs. character, character vs. himself, character vs. society, etc.)
  1. The main character or characters in a story are called the protagonists. Protagonists are central to the story’s plot and generally appear very early in a novel if not on the first page. Who is the protagonist of The Giver?
  1. A story’s antagonist is the person or force that works against the protagonist. Who or what is the antagonist of The Giver?
  1. Consider the last two sentences of the story: “Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo” (180).

The resolution in a story is the point at which the main conflict of a story is solved. This normally occurs at the end of a story. The resolution of The Giver is somewhat unclear. What do you think happens to Jonas and Gabriel at the end of the story? Does The Giver have a happy resolution or a tragic resolution?

  1. How does the ending resolve the main conflict?
  1. The theme of a novel is the main idea discussed in the story. It might best be described as the lesson the author hoped to impart to his/her readers. What theme or themes can you find in The Giver? Where do we see these themes being discussed in The Giver?