Quotes

Chapter 1 (choose one)

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. (p. 4)

Animals. . .Neither child knew what the word meant, exactly, but it was often used to describe someone uneducated or clumsy, someone who didn't fit in. (p. 7)

Two children - one male, one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules. (p. 10)

Chapter 2

"But to be honest, Jonas," his father said, "for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your Ceremony. Because I was already fairly certain of what my Assignment was to be."

Chapter 3

The apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade. (p. 2

Chapter 4 (choose one)

He could see his friend Fiona help the old man from the tub and tenderly pat his thin, naked body dry. (p. 30)

What happens when they make the actual release? Where exactly did Roberto go? (p. 32)

Chapter 5

You're ready for the pills, that's all. That's the treatment for stirrings.

Chapter 6 (choose one)

Those who were released were sent Elsewhere and never returned to the community. (p. 41)

It was as if the first Caleb were returning. (p. 43)

Chapter 7 (choose one)

He couldn't seem to stop, though for each lapse the discipline wand came again, escalating to a series of painful lashes that left marks on Asher's legs. Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was a Three.

Then the Chief Elder moved ahead in **her** speech.

Chapter 8 (choose one) Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver of Memory (p. 57)

The fourth essential attribute is wisdom. . .Jonas has not yet acquired that. (p. 59)

Chapter 9 "What happened to her?"he asked nervously. But his parents looked blank. "We don't know."

Chapter 10 (choose one) He couldn't imagine what the thousands of pages contained. (p. 71)

I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now. (p. 74)

Chapter 11 "Why don't we have snow, and sleds, and hills?"

Chapter 12 "We shouldn't have!" Jonas said fiercely (p. 91)

Chapter 13 "We really have to protect people from wrong choices."

Chapter 14 (choose one) "But what wisdom do you get from hunger?" (p. 105)

"They selected me and you to lift that burden from themselves." (p. 107)

Would it grow up Elsewhere, not knowing, ever, that in this community lived a being who looked exactly the same? (p. 109)

Chapter 15 The Giver looked away, as if he could not bear to see what he had done to Jonas. "Forgive me, " he said.

Chapter 16 "And they won't be part of my life anymore. . . And they'll be well cared for and respected." (p. 118)

Chapter 17 "Then I wave bye-bye," he said, in the special sweet voice he used when he spoke to the newchild.

Chapter 18-19 No quotes. Just free write your reaction to chapter 19 for 5 minutes and include that with your journal.

Chapter 20 (Choose one) "She's very efficient at her work, your red-haired friend. Feelings are not part of the life she's learned."

"I want you to keep that, to have with you, when I'm gone."

"Her name was Rosemary."

Chapter 21 "First thing tomorrow morning."

Chapters 22-23 No quotes. Just write how you think the book ended. Did they make it alive to a new community, or did they die? Provide support for your opinion. Use evidence from the text. If you're not sure, give evidence for both sides.