Chapters 14-15 of The Giver

Th pain memory that The Giver gives him starts out the same as the first memory he ever got, the sledding memory. But in this memory, Jonas crashed and experiences the pain of a bone fracture, vomit, and blood.
Jonas learns what he will be used for once he is officially the only Receiver. He learns that the community will come to him in advice and that he would have to make some pretty strong decisions that the community depended on.
The newchild sleeps in Jonas's room one night and when Gabriel wakes up crying, Jonas decides to transport a calming memory into him. Right away, the newchild calmed down. I don't think this was a good idea, for Jonas to give him a memory, because right away Gabriel is becoming different from everyone in his community. If he continues to receive memories, he will no longer belong there. Did you think it was a good idea for Jonas to do that?
Jonas went to the Giver one day and right away saw that he should leave since the Giver was in pain. But then, he decides to ask the Giver if it would help to take some of the pain. Jonas lays on the bed and the Giver gives him the memory. Jonas is not acquainted with war. The pain is too much for Jonas to take and he is overwhelmed. Jonas did not want to go back but he knew he had to, so he did.

Chapters 11-13 of The Giver

Jonas gets his first memory in this Chapter. The memory is of sledding down a snowy hill. Jonas learns new words and feelings just from receiving this one memory. He learned the words hill, snow, and sled. He learned about climate and he asked the Giver why they didn't have climate. The Giver said it was because that made things unpredictable and they wouldn't be able to depend on growing food and things like that.
Jonas decided to tell The Giver about what happened to him with the apple and The Giver told him that he was beginning to see color. Can you imagine? Their whole world had no color. Some people, who are color blind, have this problem in real life.
Weeks went by and Jonas learned more and more. Jonas starts to ask his friends and his family if they really can't see color. He is beginning to not remember what life was like without it. It is still amazing to him though.
Jonas told The Giver that when he got this job, they told him that he would experience pain, but he hadn't yet to experience pain so he asked The Giver to give him a pain memory.

Chapters 9-10 of The Giver

In Chapter 9 Jonas starts to feel separate from every one else. He starts to think his friends will act differently around him and he doesn't want that to happen. He reads his rules and he is appalled. He no longer has to share his dreams, he is allowed to ask anyone anything, and he no longer has to worry about being rude. His rules are totally different from anyone else in the community! And the most amazing rule was that he was allowed to lie.
In Chapter 10 Jonas goes to his first day of training. He meets The Giver and learns what he is going to have to do. He has to hold memories of the whole world for his whole community. What does this mean? No one in his community has any memories or any strong feelings because the community thinks it is too dangerous. One person has to hold all the memories or else they will all be released.
The Giver is going to give Jonas all his memories. He does this by putting his hands on Jonas's back and thinking about the memory. It is then transmitted to Jonas and Jonas learns new feelings and new words.

Chapters 6-8 of The Giver

The first day of the Ceremony is finally here and Jonas is even more excited then before. The author takes us through each age group and the special gifts they get. Then the day is over and Jonas and Asher start talking about what would happen if they hated their Assignments.

"Anyway," Jonas pointed out, "have you ever once known of anyone-I mean really known for sure, Asher, not just heard a story about it-who joined another community?"
"No," Asher admitted reluctantly. "But you can. It says so in the rules. If you don't fit in, you can apply for Elsewhere and be
released."

Jonas decided that he wouldn't apply for Elsewhere even if he hated his Assignment. He was certain that the Committee of Elders would make the right decision for him.

The day for the Twelves finally comes. When they are on stage, Jonas gets very nervous. They call them in order from there birth numbers. Jonas is nineteen. Asher gets called and is assigned Assistant Director of Recreation. Soon they are all the way up to eighteen; Fiona. Fiona is assigned Caretaker of the Old. It is Jonas's turn now.

"Number twenty." calls the Chief Elder.
She skipped Jonas! Everyone in the audience was confused as was Jonas. Why had she skipped Jonas? Had he done something wrong? They continued to the end and then finally called Jonas up...
She explains that Jonas has not been assigned, but selected. Selected to be the Receiver.
The Receiver is the most important job in the community. It requires extreme pain. Jonas hears all this and starts to get very scared. Why him? Why couldn't he have been assigned a normal job? He had no idea what the Receiver was supposed to do. He was told he had the ability to see beyond. What does that mean? he thought. Then finally he realized that that must have been what happened with the apple!
Jonas goes home with his new rules, honored, but very scared.

Chapters 3-5 of The Giver

Father brings home the newborn from the nurturing center and it now more relaxed because if the newborn starts to improve in his health, then he won't have to be released. The only people that are released are people that broke the rules three times, newborns that are sick or twins, and the elderly.
Asher and Jonas are throwing an apple around at school when Jonas noticed something odd. The apple seemed to change in the air. But then when it landed in his hand, nothing was different. Not the shape or texture. What did you think changed?
Jonas goes to do community work at the House of Old and he is washing an old female who is telling him about the release of a man named Roberto. The female is telling Jonas that before anyone is released, there is a telling of there whole life. She says she can't wait to be released. Jonas starts to wonder what released is like. Where did you go?
Every morning, you have to share any dreams you had the night before with your family. Jonas doesn't usually have dreams but this one particular night he did. And for some reason, he seemed to be embarrassed to share it. I never share my dreams with my family because sometimes they are pretty weird. If i had to share this dream that Jonas had, I would be embarrassed too! He dreamed that he was in the bathing room at the House of Old with his female friend Fiona. Jonas had taken off his tunic so he was bare and he wanted Fiona to take off her clothes and get in the tub so he could wash her.
This dream was obviously indicating that Jonas was getting older and he was starting to get feelings for girls. But this couldn't be good since only birthmothers were allowed to have children, right? So, Jonas has to start taking pills to stop him from feeling like this.

Chapter 2 of The Giver

In Chapter 2, we find out what "the ceremony" is all about. We learn that each age group has it's own ceremony where they receive whatever they may need for their new age. We also learn that The Ceremony of 12 is the most important because they give you your Assignment at that age. Their Assignment is a lot like what we would call their job. But, they get assigned what job would be right for them, in the real world, we have to pick for ourselves and that can be a very difficult decision-what you want to do with the rest of your life. So, Jonas is turning 12 in December and he is going to find out what his job will be for the rest of his life-until he goes to the house of old. The jobs are assigned by the Council of Elders who watched the children their whole lives and then decide what they would be best at.
We also learn that there is a job called a "birthmother". In this job, you give birth to 3 children over a time period of 3 years and then for the rest of your life, you have to do hard labor. We learn that this is not a respected duty. No one can have a child except for a birthmother.
In Chapter 2 we also learn that Jonas's father is a nurturer. His job is to look after newborns and make sure they are healthy. One of his newborns isn't too healthy, so the father thinks about bringing it home to help the newborn get better. Families are only allowed to have 2 children-one male and one female- so it would be a special occasion to bring this newborn into the household.

Most Powerful Paragraph from The Giver

On the floor there were packages wrapped in brightly colored paper and tied with gleaming ribbons. As Jonas watched, a small child began to pick up the packages and pass them around the room: to other children, to adults who were obviously parents, and to an older, quiet couple, man and woman, who sat smiling together on a couch. While Jonas watched , the people began one by one to untie the ribbons on the packages, to unwrap the bright papers, open the boxes and reveal toys and clothing and books. There were cries of delight. They hugged one
another. The small child went and sat on the lap of the old woman, and she rocked him and rubbed her cheek against his. Jonas opened his eyes and lay contentedly on the bed, still luxuriating in the warm and comforting memory. It had been there, all the things he learned to treasure. "What did you perceive?" The Giver asked. Warmth,"Jonas replied, and happiness. And-let me thinking.
Family. That it was a celebration of some sort, a holiday. And
something else- i can't quite get the word for it."
"It will come to you."

I think this is really powerful because it is explaing the most important thing in life-love. It shows that the poeple in the community didn't have it and showed Jonas what it was like.