THE GIVER

CHAPTERS 1&2

• Jonas feels apprehensive towards the upcoming ceremony
• "After Twelve, age isn't important. Most of us even lose track of how old we are as time passes, though information is in the Hall of Open Records... What's important is the preparation for adult life, and the training you'll receive in your Assignment" (Lowry, 17)

CHAPTERS 3,4&5

• Jonas experiences "stirrings".
• Then, in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a corner on his bicycle, the dream slipped away from his thoughts. Very briefly, a little guiltily, he tried to grasp it back. But the feelings had disappeared. The Stirrings were gone" (Lowry, 39)

CHAPTER 6,7&8

• The ceremony takes place, and Jonas is assigned the role of the giver.
• "You will be faced, now, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it, that you would need immense courage" (Lowry, 63)

CHAPTERS 9,10,11&12

• Jonas begins training to become the giver.
• "What if others-adults-had, upon becoming Twelves, received in their instructions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?" (Lowry, 71)