The giver 1-6 chapter (0)

1. Describe Jonas ’ family
Jonas' family, like all other families in the community, includes a caring mother and father and two children — one male child and one female child . Jonas' mother has an important job with the Department of Justice, and his father has a job as a Nurturer, taking care of newborns. Jonas has one younger sister , Lily . His family seems ideal . Each morning , they discuss their dreams that they had the previous night; during the evening meal, they share feelings about the events of the day, comforting and supporting each other according to the rules of the community.
2. What is the family’s nightly ritual?
It is a required ritual in which all family members have to tell how they were feeling that day.
3. Why had Lily been angry?
Lily goes first by explaining the anger that she felt today when someone from a visiting group of Sevens, or seven - year -olds, did not obey the rules about waiting in line. She compares the boy to an animal , but she is not exactly sure what an animal is, and she recalls that she made a fist at him.
4. How do the parents explain the new boy’s behavior ?
Lily's parents remind her of a past experience when she was a Six and had felt out of place while visiting a different community of Sixes, and Lily decides that she now feels sorry for the Seven, who must have felt like a stranger , rather than angry at him. Lily's father got her to stop being "angry" at the little boy on the playground by talking to her, and reasoning with her. He asked her how she would have felt if she was in a new, strange place. He suggested that maybe the boy did not know the rules of their community, and did not know he was breaking them . Lily said that she understood , and said that she was no longer angry with the boy.
5. What is Father’s job in the community?
Nurturer who works with infants . He enjoys his job and takes it very seriously, constantly trying to nurture children who will stay alive until the Ceremony of Names . However , even if he is attached to a child, he will release it if that seems to be the best decision.
6. Why is father worried about one baby?
Jonas's father speaks of a weak infant at the nursery whom he is going to temporarily bring home in order to provide better care, since if the baby cannot recover he will have to be released.
7. Why is Jonas apprehensive about the Ceremony of Twelve ?
He is apprehensive about the upcoming Ceremony of Twelve, when he will be given his official Assignment as a new adult member of the community. He does not have a distinct career preference, although he enjoys volunteering at a variety of different jobs. Though he is a well-behaved citizen and a good student , Jonas is different: he has pale eyes , while most people in his community have dark eyes, and he has unusual powers of perception. Sometimes objects “ change ” when he looks at them. He does not know it yet, but he alone in his community can perceive flashes of color ; for everyone else, the world is as devoid of color as it is of pain, hunger , and inconvenience.
8. Why is December so important for children in the community?
We learn that every December, all of the children in the community are promoted to the next age group—all four -year-old children become Fives, regardless of the time of year when they were actually born. We also learn that fifty children are born every year. The ceremonies are different for each age group. At the Ceremony of One newchildren, who have spent their first year at the Nurturing Center , are assigned to family units and given a name to use in addition to the number they were given at birth .
9. Do people in the community ever break any laws ? Explain.
Jonas’s father confesses to his family that he has peeked at the struggling newchild’s name—Gabriel—in the hopes that calling him a name will help the child develop more quickly. Jonas is surprised that his father would break any kind of rule, though the members of the community seem to bend rules once in a while. For instance , older siblings often teach younger siblings to ride bicycles before the Ceremony of Nine, when they receive their first official bicycles.
10. When can children start riding bikes?
Ceremony of Nine, when they receive their first official bicycles.
11. Why is Jonas worried about Archer?
Asher is turning twelve in the beginning of the book, and is thirteen at the end of the book. Asher is a bit childish, fooling around a lot and does not have precision of language ,as he usually mixes up words and doesn't get phrases correct , like when he was a three, and mixed up snack with the word "smack", recieving many blows of the "discipline wand" on his hand . This resulted in a silent Asher for a while, but after a whle he learned and began to talk with greater precision. Asher is usually late for school, and uses multiple excuses to explain this.
12. What is Lily’s „comfort object “? What will happen to it when Lily turns to Eight ? Why does the author say it’s an imaginary creature?
Comfort objects are stuffed animals that are given to children when they are born to help them fall asleep. Lily's comfort object in The Giver is an elephant. These comfort objects were usually soft, stuffed and imaginary animals.