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Lois Lowry lets us feel how a single transmission has lightened the old man: he is seated, energetic, renewed. The three adjectives stacked across the sentence are the author's way of showing that giving a memory really does lift a weight, which prepares the reader for what the Giver will now ask Jonas to do with his own inherited memory.
The old man looked up, smiling, when Jonas entered the room. He was already seated beside the bed, and he seemed more energetic today, slightly renewed, and glad to see Jonas.
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Narration Prompt
Retell the chapter in five or six sentences, covering Jonas's dream about the sled, his silence at school, the change he sees in Fiona's hair, the Giver's test with the books, and the moment Jonas learns he is beginning to see the color red.
Discussion Questions
- Jonas tells his mother he slept soundly with no dreams, when really he has been dreaming about the sled hill again and again. What does Jonas gain and what does he lose by giving this half-true answer at the breakfast table?
- At school, Jonas realizes there is 'no way to describe' snow and sunshine to friends who have never felt them. Why does Lois Lowry make this realization part of Jonas's first full day of training, and what is she suggesting about what shared experience does for a language?
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Full of liveliness, strength, and the eagerness to act.
Item 2
Restored to a fresher, stronger, or better state than before.
Item 3
Placed in or occupying a sitting position.
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