1. The Giver by: Lois Lowry
4th period Montez Allen

2. Slide 2
• Jonas, the 11 year old protagonist of the
story, as her struggles to find the right
word to describe his feelings as he
approaches an important milestone he
rejects frightened as too wrong a word,
recalling a time when he had really been
frightened a year ago.

3. conflict
• A mild-mannered, tenderhearted Nurturer who
works with infants. He is very sweet with his two
children. 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.
He has an affectionate, playful relationship with
his two children, usually referring to them by silly
nicknames, and he likes playing childish games
with the children he nurtures.

4. Perseverance
• Together with The Giver, Jonas comes up with a plan to
change the entire community. He decides to flee the
community for the Elsewhere, a place he has only heard
about that lies far beyond. If Jonas leaves, the memories
he has received from The Giver will be let loose. They
will find their way back to the community and to the
people. The people will have ready access to the
memories that will, in turn, give them knowledge about
things that have been missing in their lives. They will
come to the same kind of awakening that Jonas did
when he was given memories of the past from The
Giver.

5. Character two perseveres through
adversity
Jonas's mother, A practical, pleasant
woman with an important position at the
Department of Justice. Jonas’s mother
takes her work seriously, hoping to help
people who break rules see the error of
their ways. She frequently gives Jonas
advice about the worries and fears he
faces as he grows up.

6. solution
• The Giver’s solution to the problem in the story is to murder Jonas. He uses
a different term for the deed; he calls it escape. Nevertheless, his plan is to
kill the boy and himself, which will return the community to its original state.
The community would once again be left without a Receiver and would
resemble the community that existed back and back and back.
• It seems odd, that The Giver, who professes that the very necessity of
memories is to provide humans with wisdom and who is a man then that
should possess it, thinks the only solution to a lifeless existence, such as
the one experienced by his community, is more death, more “release.”
Ironically, the community’s answer to suffering and even minimal discomfort,
is death and so is The Giver’s. The book then supports the human need for
the concept of death as a
• means of release from earthy suffering and the hope of Elsewhere, whether
its labeled as heaven or whatever, as an alternative plane of existence
where life is.