The setting in this story is a place much like Eutopia. It is a place where everything is perfect. The time period is not specified. We are guessing that the date is past the '60's because jet engines are mentioned in the story and they were invented during the 1960's. It is a small community, an is very clean and orderly.

The Giver
Period 4
Sam P., Kira, Dylan, Aiden
3/26/10

The council makes all of the rules. The communities very secluded, for example planes are not allowed to fly over it. The justice system is very strict because you lose your home in the community and are kicked out, if you commit three crimes. You’re in groups based on your age. You have different ceremonies for each age and you get certain things like your name and your comfort item for the different ceremonies. The comfort item is taken away at age 8. They don’t know what an animal is; they just know what the comfort item is called. When they are 9 they get a bike, although the older siblings taught them how to ride one ahead of time. The families can only have one child of each gender and they are only friends with someone in their age group. When they are 12, they get their assignment such as laborer, doctor, etc. At 12 they become adults and go into a group of their trade. Then they can be friends with anyone. You don’t know what your job is ahead of time.

Daniel, Evan, Griffin, Alex
Period M

The community in this novel is strict and is precisely laid out on a set of rules. As you grow up things are taken away and given to you, various responsibilities are set out as you grow in age. At age 8 your comfort animal is taken away and you receive a button coat as a symbol of your independence. At age 9 you lose your hair ribbons and you receive a bike you also get a different button coat. At age 12 you receive your assigned job and become an adult, to receive your job you must have volunteered a certain amount of hours in the community. This community service helps determine your job. After you receive your job ages are not counted with ceremonies anymore, 12 is the last. Everyone does their job in the community and everyone cooperates with each other. When someone gets old enough they move into the house of the old later on, you are released, when an elderly person is released it is a celebration because they lived a long happy life in the community. However if you are not released when you are old it is a bad thing because you have done something wrong. There are families of four; you are assigned a spouse and children. Mistakes made require an immediate apology and announcements are made over the intercom. The society is controlled by the committee; people on the committee decide who get assigned what. There is no violence in the community.

The Giver
Stephen Kittredge
Jeah Carney
Brian Young
Richard Persichono

The Community in my novel is very strict and based on many rules. Nobody outside world can join but they can visit. for example, only poepl born into the community are able to be part of the community but any people from toher communities can visit. The doundation is very strict with many rules. For example, if you are in school and you come late you have a legal excuse why you are late. If you dont have a note the teacher you would have to talk to your parents about why you were late. If you don't have a note your teacher would have to talk to your parents. That is also how our world is run i a way because you need a note explaining why you are late. If there is something everyone needs to know it will be anounced over the loud speaker. Also, there really hasen't been and crime so far. All community mmbers are very kind to one another and generally do not conflict.

The Giver
Sara Tuller
Ariana Powel
Trever Doyle
Reilly Sirois
Period 1

The communty in my novel has alot of rules and is truly unique. In this comunity you do not get the child that you gave birth to you get a baby with a name but the thing is that the baby is not the one you made.So then you do not even get to name the baby either. They named the baby before they give it to you and I think that is weird.This comunity is based on certain ru;es and one of the rules is that they are not aloud to say "your released!". When you say that line you could get in alot of trouble if you lived in the comunity. For example in the text it says that he got yelled at for saying "Thats it Asher your released!".Personally i think that it is weird that if you say that you will get in trouble. Another weird thing is that if an airplane flys over the comunity they have to go inside and stay there until they are gone. But the people in the comunity are mostly nice and they are nice to their neighbors.

Billy Curtis, Adam Jasmin, Cole Stadler, Ben Webb, Sydney Jenner, Zach Goyette
Group: The Giver
Response to the Community in the book

The community in the Giver is unique and different than ours. This community is also very dull and has no memory of the past except for the Giver. They also can’t see color because of the sameness which stops things from being different.
Who can join?
No one can join unless they are a newborn from the community.
The elders are the foundation of the community they run everything and also they have rules which keep it a “perfect” community.
The crime doesn’t have to be handled there is no crime and the elders make sure of it because if you are bad or different they release you.
In this community there is no conflict but all of the members cooperate and have assigned jobs to keep it sane.

In the Giver the community is strictly ruled. Starting at the age of one the kids start going to the ceremonies. When kids are one they go to the ceremony and they are given away to another family. Each family is only allowed to have one boy child and one girl child. At the ceremony of 9 kids get a bike as a gift and get to start riding it but their older brothers or sisters usually start teaching them secretly. At the ceremony of twelve kids gat assigned a job, but they do not get to pick it themselves. Jonas the main character is going to the ceremony of twelve he is nervous of the job that he is going to get. After the ceremony people forget their age because after that the ceremonies are over and nobody cares anymore. They can look at the records any time they want to find there age but they do not care. Also Jonas’s dad said that you usually do not keep the same friends anymore, but Jonas says that he will always be friends with Asher.
Jenny, Lane, Matt, Mickey

The Giver
4/1/10
Sara Tuller, Reilly Sirois, Trevor Doyle, Ariana Powell

In the community in The Giver, they have different communities by not naming your child; also you don’t even have your child, compared to our community where as we give birth to our own child and we name it on our own. Another difference is that in The Giver they have one big celebration for their birthdays, and when they turn 13, is when they become adults. As for our community, we have to turn 18 to become real adults. Last but not least in this book there are different communities that have different rules. One of the rules is that people may not join the community they can only visit. But in our community they are aloud to join not just visit. The only rules that my community has are the laws for the whole United States Of America.

The Giver
4/1/10
Nathan, Dylan, and Mariah

Jonas's community is very different from ours. For example, all of us were able to choose when we got a bike. In Jonas's community everybody gets their bike when they are 9 years old. Also, in Jonas's community everybody gets a job when they are 12 years old. All of us right now are 12 years old and we are still going to school. This shows that my and Jonas's community are very different.

Week 2
The community in the book The Giver is nothing like our community. The community in The Giver is strictly ruled. Yes ours is strictly ruled with laws but not like the one in the book. One of the rules in the community of The Giver is that you can only have two children and it can only be one boy and one girl. Here in our community you can have as many children as you want. Also in our community we do not have children and then have to give them away to another family, we have the babies and we can take care of them. If we can not take care of are children we do something called an adoption. When we have an adoption it means that we are going to look at multiple sets of couples and see which one you think your baby would be best with. Another one of the rules in The Giver is that you cannot ride your bike until you are nine, but most of the older brothers or sisters teach them before then secretly. Here in my community we start riding a bike when ever we want to and are parents are ready to teach us. Also the most important part of the community is the ceremony’s they have. No one pays much attention to their age so it does not matter if you do not have your ceremony on the month and day you were born. In our community we do not have ceremony’s we have birthday parties for one person at a time, and we pay attention to our age. Also when they go to the ceremony of twelve they get assigned a job that they do not get to pick, unlike here where we get to pick our job most of the time, and you start working at 16 instead of 12 unless you have a job like babysitting.

Week 2

Ways in the community in the novel, The Giver, are similar to our own community. One way they are similar is the way of dealing with crime. In both communities you are punished, however in the book after committing 3 offences you are released from the community. While in our own depending on the size of the crime you will be sentenced to a certain amount of years in jail, another way they’re similar is that news papers and T.V. travels quickly. However the differences in the community and in the book are intercoms placed in every house. Ways the community are different is their set of rules. In the community in the book is dictated by rules, everything is laid out precisely and disobeying the rules will mean being “released.”

Stephen Kittredge
Brian Young
Ricky Persechino
April 1, 2010
The GIver
In our community you are able to ride a bike whenever you want but in The Giver, you are not allowed to ride a book till you are nine. The Giver has a rule where you can’t become adult till you are twelve but in the United States, you are eligible to become an adult at the age of eighteen. Like wise, you are not able to get a job till you are twelve in The Giver but in the United States you aren’t allowed to get a job till you are sixteen. This book is a lot like an Indian tribe. This book is like one because in this book, they stay together, stay strong, look out for on another, and follow a strict set of rules. Just like The Giver.

Ben Webb, Zach Goyette, Cole Stadler, Billy Curtis, Sydney Jenner, and Adam Jasmin

The Positive & Negative about the Community

Negative
• Can’t see color
• No hills or snow
• To many rules
• Jonas can’t tell anyone about his training
• Jonas is different from everyone except the Giver
• You start to work at age twelve
• You can’t pick your career
• You can be released from the community


Positive
• No violence or conflict
• Nothing costs money
• Community is organized and the government (Elders) is stable
• Every one has a job that is part of the community.

Nathan, Dylan, and Mariah

One negative thing about the comunity in the Giver is that the Cheif Elder chooses the jobs for the kids. In our community we get to choose what job we are going to do. Another negative thing about the kids are assigned to the parents by the Nurterers. This doesn't happen in our community. This shows that there are negative things about living in the community in the Giver.

The Giver
Reilly Sirois, Trevor Doyle, Ariana Powell, Sara Tuller

Negative-
Can't give birth to their child.
If you said "you are released" you could be punished harshly.
You don't have a choice.
You're not allowed to keep a third child.
The pain of being a receiver.
Can't say certain words.
Don't have to worry about what you're going to be.

Positive-
Has Giver when advice is needed.
Having the honors of being the Receiver.
Being able to take care of Gabe.
Rules to keep the community safe.
You don't have t worry about what you're going to be.

There are negative and positive qualities in our book, The Giver. One negative quality of our book is that there are certain ages for everything you do. In the community they make sure you fall in love at a certain age. They also make sure you ride a bike, go to school, and so on, at a certain age. All of these requirements are ridiculous. Another negative aspect is that the people become afraid of everything you do. They are unfamiliar with. Imagine being afraid of every new species, helicopter, plane, and much more. A positive quality of the community is that everyone is similar which means they don’t fight. Lastly, everyone is close so they can keep in touch, which means they know what is going on. The community has its ups and downs just like every community.

Xavier Rodriguez
Alex Ujvari
Amanda Soltis
Braden Frey
Thomas Tkacz

Evan Gazso

Week 3
2 negative qualities:
-There are to many rules
-If you do not follow the rules you get released

2 positive qualities:
-many rules
-age ceremony’s at which you get to start trying an doing new and different things

Daniel Tyrrell, Evan Dolecki
Period M

One Negative Quality in this book is that if a incindent happens every one will know because the community is so close.Anothor Negative quality is that everyone is signed a job but sometimes you might not like your job or you are not capeible of the training for it so that means you are not happy with the job you got. One Positive quality in our cumunity is that at every age in our comunity you either recieve a new gift showing you are mature enough to handle it or you get a gift taken away from the preveous years that is now to young for you. Another positive quality in our comunity is that there is no crime in our comunity. This means that you are safe your whole life and you do not have to worry about anything happen to you. These are just some of the quality that are included in our comunity from our novel.

Stephen Kittredge, Brian Young, Ricky Persichino, Leah Carney.
Week 3

Positive: A upside to living in this community is that every single year you get a present from the community. You get a jo bat a early age. You get to spend more time with your family because of the tight family. You have to respect people so you never get called rude. You get to ride bikes. The community is a very safe place because you can't leave the commmunity. Also, your never a stranger in the community because every one knows you.
Negative: You maybe able to ride a bike but not till you are 9. You can't leave your community to go explore the world. You can't judge anyone about colors because no one knows what color is except for The Giver and Jonas. There is a lot of rules in this community so you cant have a lot of freedom. Which leads to a very strict community.

Alex, Amanda, Braden, Evan, Xavier
Period 1
4/22/10
The Giver

We think Jonas’s community affects him. We think this because, he wouldn’t have run away from home if his community showed emotion. This is definitely an affect from the community because they caused him to do this. I don’t think he fits into the community because he is one of the only ones who sees color, shows emotion, and has a memory. Jonas doesn’t like the laws but other people in the community can’t tell the difference so they don’t care. Jonas knows how release works, when know one else in the community know that it means kill…

Ariana Powell, Sara Tuller, Trevor Doyle, Reilly Sirois.
The Giver.
Week 4 and Week 6.
Period 1.
Week 4:~ The community in the novel affects the character in the book because; he has to follow all of these specific rules just because of one thing. This one thing is that he becomes a reciever and everything seems to be different for him. Some of the characters fit in the novel because, they are okay with everything they have to do and fit in with everything perfectly fine. The community might be a little odd to us, but it is fine with them because they are used to it.

Week 6.~ All of us agreed that we would not like to live in their community. We would not like to live in their community becuase, they all have to followe all of these rules and we don't like the idea of that. We don;t like it because we are very impatient with things and a lot of the rules are very weird and ones that we would not like to EVER follow. One of the rules is that; everything you own has to be the same. Who wants that? Nobody! And also, they dikdnt have colors. Just imagine how dull everything would be!!

Jonas isn’t affected by the community because he lives in it. Jonas doesn’t fit in because he can see color and he can break all of the rules. Jonas doesn’t like his community at all, because he wants everyone to be the same and doesn’t like the fact that they can’t share memories either of all the emotion. People look at him in a different way now that he has the job of the receiver. He realizes something is wrong with the community but, he knows he can’t do anything about it.

Ben Webb, Adam Jasmin, Sydney Jenner, Billy Curtis, Cole Stadler


We would not want to be part of the community because:

• They cant see colors
• The community is run by the elders
• No sunshine
• No snow
• You get a job at 12
• You are told what to do for your job
• You cant make your own decisions
• No riding bikes until the age of 9
• Every thing is based on your age
• You are told what to wear
• They release (kill) people for doing things wrong
• You have to share dreams
• You have to take pills to stop creepy dreams
• No violence because of the over controlling community
• No vehicles and you must travel on bikes
• Have to go to school
• Every family has an adopted boy and a girl
• No beaches
• No swimming
• No sledding or snowball fights
• No Christmas
• No holidays
• You have to wear bows until you reach the age of 9
• No pets

Nathan Tancreti, Dylan Lizzi, and Mariah Summa

We would not want to live in the community in the giver because everything is chosen for you. For example, the jobs are chosen for you when you are 12 years old. Also, the kids are assigned to the parents. This is why we would not want to live in this community.

How does the community affect Jonas?
The community affects Jonas by being secluded and holding back knowledge, so Jonas he doesn’t know what snow, sun, colors, and animals are. He is not allowed to tell anyone about his training which is hard because he really wants to spread the word. He is secluded from his friends and he has no time for himself like he use to. He can’t reply for release either. He can lie which is forbidden from the community because he is the Receiver of Memory. It is also hard for Jonas to understand memories because he has no previous knowledge of what he is learning.

Week 5
The community throughout the novel does not change. The whole community in one does not change only people themselves change.

The community in this novel affects the main character greatly; one example is the community lays out rules that dictate Jonas his entire life. Another example is his community selected him for his job. A third example is Jonas can apply for a spouse, however he doesn’t choose who his spouse is, it is decided by the community, Jonas fits into the community in the beginning of the, however once he receives his job he’s able to receive the colors and feel pain, this juristically changes his perspective. He still looks the same however he perceives things differently. Thus making him different.

Stephen Kittredge
Brian Young
Ricky Persichino
Leah Carney
Week 5

The community effects Jons when he sees his dad killing one of the new born baby twins. It effects him because he is shocked that his community would even think of actually even think of a job like that. It also efects Jonas by how the community actually thinks he is safe living in a town with murders. The community also restricts jonas from his job like how he sees all these colors and he is not allowed to say them or even use the word love. It also effects by how important his job really is. His community makes him feel likes he belongs when he really does not in the way he thinks.

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Nathan Tancreti
Dylan Lizzi
Mariah Summa
Week 5

The community in The Giver does not change. The community was the same from the beginning of the book to the end. Jonas goes to many different places throughout the book, but they always stay the same. They never change. This shows that the community in The Giver doesn't change.

The Giver week 4
Ben Webb, Zach Goyette, Cole Stadler, Billy Curtis, Adam Jasmin, Sydney Jenner


How does the community illustrated in the novel affect the main character in the novel?

It affects him because the people in the community don’t have memories but Jonas does so he has different feelings and opinions about things. It also affects him because he watched his father release a twin baby and thought it was cruel so he started thinking differently about his father and the community. This causes Jonas to escape from the community. He does not fit into the community because he can see color but every one else sees black and white. Also he is the only person who has the Receiver of Memory as a job. It is hard for him to fit in.

Week 6
I would not have liked to been part of the community illustrated in the Giver. I would not have liked to been part of the community because there are so many rules that you have to follow and to celebrate your age you have ceremony’s of that age, and after the age of twelve you do not have to remember your age.
ere are so many rules that you have to follow and to celebrate your age you have ceremony’s of that age, and after the age of twelve you do not have to remember your age.

Stephen Brian Ricky
The Giver
Week 5
The commmunity does not change through out the book but the people's opinion of the community changes. For example, Jonas thinks his community is very safe and humble. But when he sees that his dad is a murderer he longer feels safe. So he rides away from the community on his bike with Gaberial so he doesn't get murdered. Another example that the community doesn't change is the rules of the community. The rules forbid from anything being changed. The only thing that changes is again, Jonas's perspective of his community.

Kira eaton
Dylan Jhonson
Sam Pittsley
Aiden Tellier
Week 5

Does the community change throughout the novel?

Yes, because in the beginning and throughout a lot of the book the community did not have memories, there wasn't color, and many innocent people were killed. At the end of the book, however, The Giver and Jonas put a stop to this by Jonas leaving and The Giver dying so that the memories were released. Also Jonas's life changed so much after his ceremony. He got lots of memory and was the only person that could stop people from killing Gabe and other people. He went from a world of no sunshine, clouds, or snow, to a world of trees, grass, and life.

Period 1
April 29,2010
Alexandra Ujvari
Amanda Soltis
Braden Frey
Evan Gaszo
Xavier Rodriguez
Thomas Tkacz

Yes, the community changes through the book. Not the community itself but the people in the community have, The people changed emotionally because they showed emotion when Jonas ran away. The people of the community can now remember things. This was a big change for the community because it must've been hard to live without emotions, and havings emotions is a big accomplishment.

Kira eaton
Dylan Jhonson
Sam Pittsley
Aiden Tellier

Negative:

• Elders decide your life
• Secluded within your age group


Positive:

• Everyone is happy and close
• Most people enjoy their jobs

The community in the novel the Giver changes and stays the same throughout the book. The community
was the same the whole time however it changes as Jonas becomes aware of the falsehoods and secrets
of the community. For example Jonas learns that in a release you are not sent out of the community,
you are injected with a substance that kills you. The community also changes for Jonas in the way that
he is able to see the colors of every day objects that were hidden from him before he could see them.
One other change that happened in the community is that Jonas, using insight from the memories he
had received learns that the sameness had taken away all manner of tings such as animals, weather, and
emotion. The community was like this whole time however all the things that changed were not known
to people.


Giver Period M

Period M

P2

NEEDLESS TO SAY, HE WILL BE RELEASED, the voice had said, followed by silence. There was an ironic tone to that final message, as if the speaker found it amusing; and Jonas had smiled a little, though he knew what a grim statement it had been. For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, and overwhelhming statement of failure.

P4

He had waited a long time for this special December. Now that is was almost upon him, he wasn't frightened, but he was...eager, he decided. He was eager for it to come. And he was excited, certainly. All of the Elevens were excited about the event that would be coming so soon.

P30

And the nakedness, too. It was against the rules for children jor adults to look at another's nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old. Jonas was glad. It was a nusance to keep oneself covered while changing for games, and the required apology if one had by mistake glimpsed another's body was always awjward. he couldn't see why it was necessary. He liked the feeling of safety here in this warm and queit room; he liked the expression of trust on th ewoman's face as she lay in the water unprotected , exposed, and free.