The Giver - Chapters 11 - 14 Questions

How does Jonas receive memories from the old man?

What is the first memory Jonas receives?

What is Jonas’s response to the first memory he receives?

What is the first unpleasant memory Jonas receives?

Why do you think the old man doesn’t respond when Jonas says that after experiencing the sunburn, he understands about the kind of physical pain he’ll have to experience?

What does the old man tell Jonas to call him?

What is happening to Jonas when he sees things like the apple and Fiona’s hair “change?”

Why does the Giver call Jonas’s ability to see the color red, “seeing beyond?”

The Giver tells Jonas that people’s skin used to be many different colors, but now everyone is the same. How do you think they accomplished that?

Jonas feels bad that his friends and family do not have the opportunity to experience all the things he is experiencing. How does he try to fix that? Why do you think it doesn’t work?