The Giver

5. the ceremony during which the children in each peer group chronologically move from one age to the next; infants are placed with family units, and Twelves are assigned their lifelong careers.
7. medication that is dispensed to community members to relieve pain so that no one in the community suffers.
9. The sole keeper of the community’s collective memory.
10. Jonas’s seven-year-old sister
11. Jonas’s friend who demonstrates the community’s inability to truly enforce Sameness, and provides an example of a person for whom life in the community is not entirely comfortable.
13. the futuristic society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred.
15. where older residents of the Community live
16. a person who cares for the elderly in the House of the Old.

1. Jonas' community controls the weather so that it is the same all the time.
2. When a new infant is given to a family unit to replace a child who died unexpectedly, the citizens of the community speak the child's name softly at first, then more rapidly and loudly, symbolizing the return of the dead child. The new infant is given the same name as that of the child who died.
3. When a child dies unexpectedly, the citizens of the community repeat the dead person's name over and over — and more and more softly — during the day.
4. at age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests.
6. Current Receiver, a wise old man.
8. She has red hair, whose color only Jonas can see, and works as a Caretaker in the House of the Old.
12. Someone has trouble sleeping through the night at the Nurturing Center.
14. The main protagonist in the book.