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About This Passage
This is the calm, color-filled memory the Giver places beside Jonas's hurts. After the pain of the broken leg on the icy hill, Lowry gives Jonas a memory of a bright sailboat on a quiet lake, and that is the very memory Jonas will later give to Gabriel. It teaches the young reader that gentle memories are something one person can share with another.
a bright, breezy day on a clear turquoise lake, and above him the white sail of the boat billowing as he moved along in the brisk wind.
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
In your own words, retell Chapter 14. What happens on the icy hill? How does the Giver's answer to Jonas about hunger and warfare change Jonas's feelings? Who ends up sleeping in Jonas's room, and what does Jonas do at the end of the chapter?
Discussion Questions
- Jonas asks the Giver, 'May I have relief-of-pain, please?' and the Giver says no. What in the story makes Jonas want the pain to stop, and why do you think the Giver refuses even though he loves Jonas?
- When Jonas lies in bed at home, he thinks, 'They have never known pain.' What in the story shows that his family has not known pain, and how do you know this thought makes Jonas feel lonely and different from them?
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Vocabulary Builder
Item 1
a rounded rise of land, smaller than a mountain
Item 2
a flat wooden carrier used for gliding over snow
Item 3
a strong hurting feeling in the body
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