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Lowry puts the reader inside Jonas's assumption before the scene breaks it. The word 'sympathetically' belongs to routine medicine; the word 'puncturing' belongs to something else. The prose crosses from one world to the other inside two sentences.
Jonas winced sympathetically. He had forgotten that newchildren had to get shots. He hated shots himself, though he knew that they were necessary. To his surprise, his father began very carefully to d...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
Retell this chapter's events: Jonas asks about release, the Giver tells him to watch the recording, Jonas sees his father kill the smaller twin with an injection, and the Giver tells Jonas that Rosemary injected herself. Explain how Jonas changes between the first minute of the chapter and the last.
Discussion Questions
- Early in the chapter Jonas chuckles and says 'they can't have two identical people around!' about his father's upcoming release. Why does Lowry let Jonas laugh here, and how does that chuckle make the rest of the chapter heavier?
- The Giver tells Jonas, 'You can watch... you are allowed to ask anyone anything.' What does it mean that this information — that the Receiver can see anything in the community — has been available to Jonas the whole time?
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Item 1
Serious and quiet, as if weighed down by something important.
Item 2
Captured on tape or video so it can be watched again later.
Item 3
Shocked by surprise into speechlessness.
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