The Giver!
The Giver Summary Ch. 1~5 |
The Giver Summary Ch. 11~13 |
There is a boy named Jonas who going to become a twelve. Jonas is just an ordinary boy, same as everyone. The ceremony of twelve is the most important of all ceremonies. Jonas lives with his father, mother, and little sister. His father works for the newborns which is also known as a nurturer. Lily is a seven who likes to get attention and always be first due to her impatience. His family's ritual is that everyday they tell how their day went and how they feel. There can only be 2 children, 1 boy and 1 girl for each family unit Jonas works at numerous community centers to fulfill his hours of community service. There is a plane/jet flying above one of his community center and everyone on the streets panic, then a speaker on the streets said to go to the nearest diner, house, store, etc. Jonas’ best friend, Asher is always late to his services, so he always apologizes and his fellow members. Jonas’ father names one of application of the children Gabriel (Gabe). At eight the committee of elders take away what comforts them, and Lily is not happy because she needs her stuffed elephant to help her sleep. Lily makes fun of Jonas saying that his eyes looks like Gabriel’s while she also says that she wants to be a birthmother which was very serious. Jonas likes a eleven named Fiona who works at the house of old with Asher and Jonas whose first job was to bathe the elderly. The woman Jonas was bathing said that one of the people that he took care of got released and walked through the special door of releasing which was very strange because no one knew where he went after he went through the door except for the committee. During a dream Jonas had he wanted to bathe his crush Fiona, but she rejected him saying no hysterically. His mother said that it was called a stirring. Jonas will have to take a pill everyday because it can happen again once he forgets. On his way to school he thinks that he had actually liked the dream and wanted to feel like he did in the dream, but when he tried to remember the feeling his stirrings have disappeared.
The Giver Summary Ch. 15~16Gabe and Jonas are taking little by little steps into the giver's life trying to find more secrets about him. Jonas enters the receivers (the givers) house. He went into his room but seeing him smile the giver was exhausted and weak because of all the burdens and bad memories he has. The giver gave some of his horrible memories to Jonas so that he could have less of a burden because these burdens are making him hopeless to himself and very weak. The giver was full with guilt knowing that he gave Jonas bad memories when he didn’t have to but because of greed and he didn’t want to carry all the burden by himself he gave Jonas bad memories. The giver couldn’t even look Jonas in the eye. Jonas thought that being a receiver also meant that he had to get bad memories, so he doesn't suspect a thing but the giver was full of guilt and sorrow. In conclusion, this summary wraps up about how the giver gave Jonas some of his bad memories because they were too much of a burden that he gave some too Jonas and he feels terrible that he couldn’t even look him straight in the eye knowing what he's done.
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In chapters 11~13 Jonas is in a room with “the giver” and the giver is about to transmit Jonas’s first memory into his brain. After the giver transmitted the memory Jonas felt like he was in another place, but he was actually in the room feeling like he is in another world. Later, Jonas saw snow falling and falling with a sled on the ground and he went outside and played and sled on a hill covered in snow the feeling the cool breeze on his face, then suddenly he was back in the room same as ever. A minute back when he was sledding in the snow with the gushing wind in his face he was as happy as he can ever imagine. That memory was sent by the giver, but that wasn’t all. He transferred more happy, exciting memories of rainbows, friends, family, etc. With all the fun memories the giver transmitted a sad, poor memory. The setting was the same as the first amazing memory. Snow falling and the same sled on the ground. In the memory was sledding down on the same hill as last time with the wind pushing down on his face and the wind was too strong that Jonas fell. Then, he was back in the same room with the giver exhausted. Gabriel was not qualified to have a family unit on the celebration yet, so Jonas’s father takes care of him with Jonas always asking if Gabriel can sleep with him.
The Giver Ch. 17~18Jonas is growing and now seeing amazing new positive things and things that he has never seen before, and sadly seeing bad negative things. Jonas is dealing with mixed emotions that he never knew about. He is facing, seeing, receiving memories, while also seeing changes. One day on the loudspeaker a person mentioned an unexpected celebration, so Jonas rides his bike trying to find Asher. When Jonas arrived trying to find Asher he finds himself all alone. Jonas is starting to see colors permanently and not just glimpse which is very strange and unfamiliar to him because others just see dull people, school, clothes, etc, but it is not the same for Jonas. He is feeling more independent and alone with more difficult emotions and standards to face. In conclusion, chapters 17~18 Jonas is starting to see colors permanently and is feeling more emotions day by day.
The Giver Ch. 19~20Jonas is learning surprising things and experiencing things for the first time while being anxious. Jonas's father is releasing a new twin baby and Jonas would like to watch the reeling, but knows that he can not because releasings are private. Sentences 1,2 3 are confusing.Then, old receiver mentions that in the rules you can ask people anything even if it is private because “we” are the receivers of memory. At first Jonas was worried that his father wouldn’t accepted that Jonas and his teacher are watching the releasings without asking, but in the end they watched the releasing. When the receiver (the older one) was speaking about when his time is done that he would be leaving. Jonas was not happy but the old receiver says that he wants to go and leave and finally for all the years be with his family especially with his daughter. Jonas was astonished about the news because he only knew that he had a spouse and the old receiver says that her name is Rosalia. Jonas is experiencing rules that he tried for the first time in his life and learning some truths from his teacher that are shocking.
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What Role Does Fear Play In Chapters 21 & 22?
In chapters 21 and 22 fear is what you would basically describe it by, and the role of fear is that when Jonas ran away with Gabriel breaking the 3 bad rules the community sent planes to capture Jonas and Gabriel, he felt that he disappointed the giver in multiple ways, etc. This all started because at dinner time his father mentioned that Gabriel would have to be released by dawn the next morning. Jonas was completely filled with mixed emotions that he knew of and didn’t. Jonas couldn’t let Gabriel just get released because he knew that he would never see him again knowing that he is a very special baby. So Jonas broke 3 ( 4 including Gabriel) rules to runaway and with Gabriel and those 3 rules were was leaving after the dwelling, stealing food, and stealing his father's bicycle (he couldn’t take his because his father had a baby seat on it). In Jonas’s community if you break 3 rules and they are bad then the community would make you released or make you suffer in an unpleasant way as your punishment. As Jonas was pleading on and on getting tired and scared by every second he heard and discovered the searching planes knowing that they were here for Jonas and Gabriel. So, he and Gabriel took cover under a shuberry bush while later on Jonas was cleansing his peeled skin and scabs due to the bicycle. Jonas was scared as everyone was but he was making it all without saving Gabriel from getting released and seeing those special light eyes like every other receiver.