Quote Gathering Document

The Giver by Lois Lowry

Coming-of-Age
Topic Quote Page number
Character – Jonas “Then all of the citizens had been ordered to go into the nearest p. 12
Identity - Obedience to building and stay there. Immediately, the rasping voice through the
rules speakers had said … Instantly, obediently, Jonas had dropped his bike
on its side on the path behind his family’s dwelling.”
Innocence
Loss of Innocence

Plot -
Orientation
Conflict
Rising Action
Falling Action
Resolution/new normal

Setting - Rules “Two children – one male, one female – to each family unit. It was p.20
written very clearly in the rules.”

Family units “Two children – one male, one female – to each family unit. It was p.20
written very clearly in the rules.”

The community
‘Speakers’ “He watched as the man rose and moved first to the wall where the p. 104-105
speaker was…This one had a switch, which the man deftly snapped to
the end that said OFF. Jonas almost gasped aloud. To have the power to
turn the speaker off! It was an astonishing thing.”
Climate

Theme
•Individual/sameness
•Freedom/Choice
•Feeling & Emotions
•Memory

Rules about sameness “Two children – one male, one female – to each family unit. It was p.20
written very clearly in the rules.”
Obedience to rules (no “Then all of the citizens had been ordered to go into the nearest p. 12
freedom of choice) building and stay there. … Instantly, obediently, Jonas had dropped his
bike on its side on the path behind his family’s dwelling.”
Feeling & emotions Now that it was almost upon him, he wasn’t frightened, but he was… p.15
eager, he decided. He was eager for it to come. And he was excited,
certainly. All of the Elevens were excited about the event that would be
coming so soon. But there was a little shudder of nervousness when he
thought about it, about what might happen. Apprehensive, Jonas
decided. That’s what I am.
Memory He remembered that upon waking he had wanted to feel the Stirrings p.57
again. 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.