Taria's+Comprehension+Activities

 Rating:

The Main Character [Jonas]: I would give Jonas about a 7/10 because he's got a very nice personality and he's nice to everyone.

The Minor Characters: Fiona: 6/10 because from what you hear of her shes a really nice and caring girl. Asher: 5/10 because Asher is a good guy but near the end when Jonas asks him to stop playing the 'war' game [with the guns-their hands] he doesn't react well to it and turn it into a fight when Jonas was being nice and asked him politly to stop. The Giver: I think the Giver deserves a 7/10 because he helps Jonas through the pain and he's just an all round nice oldish man. I can see why the author made the title of the book The Giver because even though he only comes in around the end he plays a huge part in the book.

The Plot: The plot deserves a definite 10/10 its such an interresting book and keeps you hooked through the whole way.

The Setting: 6 and a half out of 10, this is because it dosen't sound like much different to what we live in [the place not the rules]so its not that exciting, also I think it needs COLOUR. I would never handle our world being black and white.

The Illustrations: Erm thats hard because there was no illustrations but the author definitly painted an illustration in my head and that was cool because it really made me think about where Jonas was and what it looked like so I give the illustrations a 7/10.

The Beginning: I can't really remember the beginning to well but from what I can it was very well done because I think one of the main things about a book it the beginnning because it needs to be good other wise you won't want to keep reading. I give it 7/10.

The Ending: The ending was really interresting but it sorta annoyed me because you didn't know what happend to Jonas and Gabriel and it left you in suspence but I'm not sure if thats a good or a bad thing! I give it a 8/10

Character Drawing:

5 Questions:

1. What do you think thge message is in this book? 2. Would you live in this community if you had a choice? 3. Would you run away if you knew what this country/community looked like? 4. If you were Rosemary would you release yourself? 5. If you were Jonas about to run away would you take Gabriel with you if he **wasen't** going to get released the next day?

Timeline of events in The Giver:

Birds Eye View of Jonas' House:



Whats The Point in The Giver?

I think the message in this story was to believe in yourself and trust other people you can't just trust your family because they might not always be the good people. I think the author sent across lots of messages but I think that was the one that stood out the most to me. The author was good at putting the messgae across. My understanding towards others hasen't really changed much I have to say!