During the conversation, we learn that Birthmothers give birth to three babies over a three-year period. Each newchild is immediately taken away from its Birthmother and is cared for by Nurturers in the Nurturing Center until the newchild is placed with a family unit at the December Ceremony.
A Birthmother's job is to birth Newchildren for the community. They are not allowed to apply for a Family Unit nor have spouses after their training. They cannot take the pills (used to prevent Stirrings) while pregnant, likely due to the hormonal changes they induce.
The Giver explains that the memories provide the wisdom he needs to advise the Elders. Years ago, he says, they wanted every Birthmother to have four children instead of three, so there would be more laborers. He had to remind them that a large population might lead to starvation—even warfare.
But there's no escaping the most chilling aspect of “The Giver's” utopian society, and one that had to be in the movie: That babies — if they aren't developing fast enough — are euthanized.
Answer and Explanation:
Families receive children by submitting an application to the Committee of Elders. The elders then scrutinize the couple's life to ensure they can safely raise a child who will in turn conform with the rest of society. Parents are only allowed two children: one boy and one girl.
When twins are born in The Giver, they are weighed. The larger sibling is nurtured and assigned to a family. The smaller sibling is released. The Community of Elders cannot risk twins growing up in separate families and realizing that they are related.
In The Giver, a married couple is allowed to have one daughter and one son. This rule means that family units cannot be any larger than four individuals. However, before a couple can adopt their first child, they have to submit an application to the Committee of Elders.
It is rare in their society for a child to die, but it does happen. When the replacement child is given, it also bears the name of the dead child. In this way, the society acts as if the dead child is returned rather than replaced.
The Giver orders an instant video of the release and watches it with Jonas. Jonas is surprised to see that his father kills the smaller of the two infants using a syringe in the baby's head. The baby is then put in a carton and shoved down something that looks like a garbage chute.
What happen to the twin? Jonas father release the baby that means he kill him by injecting him something on the forehead.
In Chapter 15, Jonas arrives to see The Giver in significant pain and is given the acutely painful memory of warfare that is overwhelming The Giver. In this memory, Jonas experiences excruciating pain and hears the cries of wounded and dying men around him.
Twins are not acceptable because people in the community will get confused. They determine their fate by how much they weigh. Who was Rosemary?
Why aren't identical twins allowed in the community? Identical twins are not allowed in the community because they are the same and the community's rules don't allow people who are exactly the same and they would cause confusion. Why do you think the Giver encourages Jonas to watch the video of the twins release?
For example, when Jonas' father breaks a rule by checking a list to see what name an infant, who is not sleeping soundly or developing as quickly as he should, will be given at the naming ceremony, Jonas is awed.
Yes, the Giver is married, but he no longer interacts with his spouse. She lives with the other childless adults in their community. They once had a daughter named Rosemary, but Rosemary committed suicide partway into her training to be a Receiver of Memory.
Jonas's training makes him curious. He asks if the Giver is allowed to have a spouse, and the Giver says that he did have a spouse once—now she lives with the Childless Adults, as almost all adults do when their children are grown and their family units have dissolved.
The newchild twitches and lies still, and Jonas realizes that it is dead. He recognizes the gestures and posture of the boy that he saw die on the battlefield. Horrified, he watches his father place the body in a garbage chute and wave goodbye. The Giver tells Jonas that he watched the recording of Rosemary's release.
Newchildren that do not meet the requirements to be assigned to a family are released. Also, when a Birthmother has twins, the weaker or smaller of the two are released, so that there will be no identical people in the community. Jonas's Father released a twin newchild on a day that Jonas went to see the Giver.
Rosemary Rosemary was The Giver's daughter. Selected ten years earlier to become the new Receiver of Memory, she began training with The Giver, but after only five weeks, she asked to be released from the community.
What is Jonas' First Startling and Disturbing Memory? Jonas's first startling and disturbing memory in The Giver is of an elephant that poachers kill and then take the tusks from. Jonas is disturbed by the killing of the animal, but he is also greatly disturbed by another elephant that comes and mourns the dead one.
Jonas stops taking the pills just so he can experience the sensation of wanting something, not because he has hopes to start a sexual relationship with another person. He wants to feel capable of making choices, and he wants to want things—nothing will change if he does not want it to very badly.
The ending to The Giver is sort of a "take it how you like it" deal. Either Jonas and Gabriel make it to Elsewhere, everyone is happy, and the world is right as rain, or… they die of exposure/starvation in the freezing snow.
The movie is based on young adult fiction with themes and disturbing scenes that make it unsuitable for most children under 15 years, although younger children might have read the book.
The Giver is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for a mature thematic image and some sci-fi action/violence.
Eight year-old children, or eights, are not allowed to have comfort objects. Girls under nine are supposed to keep their hair tied in ribbons at all times, and no children under nine can ride a bike. Tens are to receive haircuts, while elevens get new clothing. Lastly, twelves get job assignments.