The Giver
By Lois Lowry
Jonas’s awakening to emotion, memory, and individuality in a society built on control leads him to risk everything for love and true freedom.
Worksheets
During the Ceremony, Jonas is skipped over but then honored with the rare and unsettling Assignment of Receiver of Memory, a role that sets him apart from everyone else.
In a highly controlled society, Jonas anxiously awaits the Ceremony of Twelve, where the Elders will assign him his lifelong role.
Class 1
Class 2
Jonas begins training with the Giver, experiencing memories of color, pleasure, and pain, which open his eyes to the depth of life his community has lost.
Class 3
As Jonas receives both beautiful and terrible memories, he struggles with feelings of love, loneliness, and truth, realizing that his friends and family cannot understand what he now feels.
Class 4
Learning that baby Gabriel is to be released, Jonas flees the community with him, ultimately finding hope, love, and freedom as they journey toward Elsewhere.