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 Check for spelling errors (I will deduct one point for each spelling mistake) 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. Why is it easy for Jonas to “be still and to listen” when the other Twelves talk about their assignments?

3. What is significant about the color red? In other words, why did Lois Lowry choose this color? Remember that it is the first color Jonas sees.

4. Why does the Giver believe Jonas will gain wisdom faster than he did initially?

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

6. Why does Jonas think a colorless Community is “not fair”? Why is it safer if there are no choices?

7. Speculate on why there are no longer any elephants or other animals in the Community. Reference the dream with the elephants on p. 100.

8. What is the new perception (or understanding) Jonas has of the color red? See p. 100.

9. What happened to the memories when the new Receiver of Memory failed ten years earlier?

10. Create a title for both chapters and write a brief explanation of why you chose each one.