1. Why is the Giver so important?

2. Is Jonas really the one?

3. Is living in the community really worth it?
4. Why don’t the community have control over themselves?
5. What is so special about Jonas that he gets chosen as the Receiver of Memory?

1. Luxuriating: enjoying something as a luxury

2. Congregated: gather into a crowd or a mass
3. Assimilated: take in and understand fully (information or ideas)
4. Aptitude: a natural ability to do something
5. Immense: extremely large or great, especially in a scale or degree
6. Exempted: a particular rule or duty that they do not have to follow
7. Enormity: the great or extreme scale of something
8. Anguished: experiencing or expressing severe mental or physical pain suffering

Chapter 13-14 SUMMARY

During these chapters, Jonas, the protagonist of the story, starts his training with the former
Receiver of the Memory. He slowly gains memories from the Giver and begin to experience
emotions and see colors that are forbidden in the community. He learns about the former
receiver failing and causing chaos in the community due to the release of these memories.
One day, the Giver transfers him memories of the elephant killed by the poachers, he
experiences the pain transferred to him