The Giver 17

Study Guide Questions for Ch. 18-19

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Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)

Regret, Love, Death

Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)

1. What did Jonas ask the Giver at the beginning of this reading?

2. When did Jonas’ rules as the new Receiver of Memory get “hammered out?”

3. What did the Giver tell Jonas about his feelings concerning Rosemary (and Jonas)?

4. What became of Rosemary? 

5. According to the text, why would the community experience disaster if something happened to Jonas?

6. What did the Giver describe as “an interesting concept” that he would have to think about some more?

7. What did the Giver inform Jonas that he had the power to do as the new Receiver?

8. What was Jonas surprised to note about the room where the ceremony of release was to take place?

9. What did Jonas note about “the voice” his father used when talking to the smaller Newchild who had been selected for release?

10. What did Jonas’ Father do to the Newchild?

11. What is the last thing the Giver told Jonas about Rosemary’s release?

Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)

1. Why had it been difficult, initially, for the Giver to explain to Rosemary (and later to Jonas) the role they had been selected to fulfill?

2. Why did the Giver tell Jonas, “I had to, Jonas. It was my job.”

3. Why might Rosemary have been less able to deal with receiving the painful memories than Jonas?

4. What did the Giver mean when he said, “Memories are forever?”

5. What do you think the Giver was contemplating when he said, “if they lost you, with all the training you’ve had now, they’d have all those memories again themselves?”

6. Why did the Giver think Jonas should watch the release of the Twin?

7. What is significant about the fact that Father used “the special voice he uses with Gabriel” when speaking to the Newchild selected for release?

8. What is the implication of the statement that the chute in which the Newchild had been deposited “seemed to be the same sort of chute into which trash was deposited at school?”

9. Why would Rosemary have opted to “inject herself?”

Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)

1. In light of this present reading, what factors determine whether or not a particular human life is valuable? Who, if anyone, should have the say over whether or not a person’s life should be terminated for any reason? Who should not be allowed to determine such a thing? Do the questions and factors change when considering terminating one’s own life rather than someone else’s? Explain your answer carefully.

Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)

1. Read Genesis 1:26-31. How does this passage impact the question of human worth, no matter their age or size?

2. Read Psalm 139 and apply it specifically to the above Rhetoric question. How does this affect our thinking about the value of human life?

3. Read Romans 5 and apply its teaching to the question of human value. How does the doctrine of Christ’s crucifixion impact the question of human value?