Literature, The Giver, Chap.1-5 Questions

1. Why might the arrival of a jet be a terrifying experience for the entire community?

Because they had never experienced anything like it and it wasn't safe to fly over a community.

2. What do you think might happen to someone who is released from the community?

They were probably killed and banished from the area

3. Name one thing you learned about the community from the discussion during the ritual telling of feelings.

The entire community was forced by law to do things that the government wanted them to do.

4. What is different about the way children are born and infants are cared for in the community? 

Children are born in Nursing homes. Each woman may have three children. Then the babies are sent to the Child Nurturing Center. Once december came they were given to a family unit. Only 50 babies were allowed each year. If their were more than 50 then they would be dismissed.

5. Why was it so difficult to get rules changed in the community?

Because the leaders who watch the community had to report to the main leader who had a lot of things on his mind and a lot of work. When the leaders thought that maybe a child should be allowed to receive a bike at the age of eight instead of nine they had to report to the main leader. But nobody wanted to do that because he had a lot of work and something as small as that would just annoy him and never be changed.

6. Why were Gabe’s eyes of such interest to Jonas?

Because they were bright. Unlike anyone else inside the community beside himself, gabe, and another five female he noticed in the streets one day.

7. How did Lily react to the new word “hippo”? Why did she react this way?

She giggled at the funny word because she had never heard it before.

8. Why did Jonas risk the humiliation of public chastisement (being disciplined in front of people) for taking an apple from the recreation area?

Because it had changed for a split second in the air four times and he was curious on how this happened. So he ignored the rule and took it home.

9. What effect did the pills have on Jonas and the other people who took them? 

10. Why do you think all adults were required to take them?

I don't know.

11. Why do you think Birthmothers, or biological mothers, held such a low status in the community?

Because they only had three children, sat around for three years, then did hard labor until they were old and weak

12. Do you think the lives of the elderly were better or worse than they are in our society today? Give a good reason for your opinion.

I think it would be worse there. because they couldn't do whatever they wanted. But, people would bath them for service and they never needed to clean themselves.

13. What did the committee consider when giving children their life assignments?

They did watch and see what the children did in their service hours. Also they watched to see what they children grew skilled at.