The Giver Reading Log Chapters 16-23 Due Thurs. Oct. 16

The Giver Reading Log
Chapters 16-23
Due next Thursday, Oct. 16th

1. What is The Giver’s favorite memory? Describe this scene in a few sentences. Why do you think it is his favorite? Along with grandparents and family, what is the concept that permeates the scene?










2. In the novel, where do the elderly people live after their children leave? In your opinion, do you think these people should be more or less incorporated into family homes today? Why?











3. What is Jonas’ first lie to his parents? (p.127) Why is this lie so significant? How is it related to the shift of conflict in the book?










4. Why does Jonas throw the pill away?


5. Why does Jonas break up the children’s game of war?




6. What is so terrifying and heartbreaking about Lily’s comment, “What if actually we were all twins and didn’t know it, and so Elsewhere there would be another Lily, and another Jonas, and another Father, and another Asher…” (138)?












7. What were the specific memories and emotions the Giver had transferred to Rosemary which made her ask for Release? (page 142) Why are these memories more excruciating than pain?









8. What does Jonas see when he asks to watch the morning’s release?




9. Why does the Giver choose not to leave the community with Jonas? (Two reasons.)




10. What does the following quote mean to you? “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” (154)










11. What is the gift Jonas asks the Giver to save for himself? Why is this a significant detail? (Two reasons. Hint: What does it reveal about Jonas’ character, and how does it come full-circle in the very end of the novel?)















12. Why does Jonas take Gabriel with him on his journey?






13. Why are Jonas’ thoughts and sensations slower and duller at the end of the novel?








14. There are several ways to read the final pages of the novel. Describe two different options below that could be valid interpretations of what happens.

a)








b)






Which option do you prefer?



15. How do you interpret the last passage in the novel? What is your personal opinion of the final sentence:

“Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.”