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About This Passage
This is the first sentence of the chapter. Lois Lowry tells us right away that Jonas already feels different from everyone else, even before his training has started. The words alone, apart, and apartness all come from the same family, and Lowry uses them close together so we hear how heavy the feeling is.
Now, for the first time in his twelve years of life, Jonas felt separate, different. He remembered what the Chief Elder had said: that his training would be alone and apart. But his training had not y...
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Discussion Questions
Narration Prompt
In your own words, tell what happens in Chapter 9. Start with Jonas leaving the Auditorium, then the bike ride home with Asher, then the family dinner, and finish with Jonas reading the rules in his folder alone in his sleeping room.
Discussion Questions
- When Jonas calls out to Asher to ride home with him, Asher smiles his usual smile but hesitates for a moment. How can you tell, from the story, that Asher is not quite acting the same as before?
- At dinner Lily says, "I can't wait for tomorrow to come," and Jonas quietly says, "I can." What in the story shows that Jonas feels very different from Lily about the next day?
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Item 1
Being by yourself, with no one else there.
Item 2
Separated from the group; set off by yourself.
Item 3
Started; begun doing something.
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