The Giver

The Giver Chapters 1-3

  1. What can you infer about the pilot that Jonas remembers in Chapter 1, and about the meaning of being released?
  2. What is the "feelings ritual"? What purpose does it serve?
  3. What happens when Asher and Jonas are tossing an apple on the playground?
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Jonas understands the pilot will be released from the community for his mistake, which means that "release" is can be defined as some type of banishment. Over the course of the novel, we come to understand that release is death.... imposed death.

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