The Giver Characters and More

3. Living in the House of the Old. Shares a pleasant conversation and gossip with Jonas while he gives her a bath during his volunteer hours.
5. He is sweet and adorable during the day, but he has trouble sleeping at night; newchild living with Jonas.
9. Fun-loving, boy who usually speaks too fast, mixing up his words to the exasperation of his teachers and Jonas.
10. The event that unbalances the main character and sets him or her on the journey that will occupy them throughout the story.
12. The elected leader of Jonas’s community. She shows genuine affection for all of the children at the Ceremony of Twelve, knowing their names and sharing a personal story about each one.
13. The force that the main character struggles against in the story; there are six types.
15. Bearded man with pale eyes known as the Receiver of Memory.
16. Woman with an important position at the Department of Justice hoping to help people who commit transgressions

1. Elderly woman, birthmother who lived uninteresting life.
2. Sensitive and "intelligent", with strange powers of perception that he doesn’t understand. Protagonist of The Giver.
3. Seven year old who loves her comfort object and throws a petulant fit over a boy who cut line.
4. Affectionate, tenderhearted Nurturer who works with infants.
6. An instructor of elevens, elderly man who is released at a wonderful ceremony.
7. A four-year old child who is lost in the river.
8. Works as a Caretaker in the House of the Old. Jonas’s first sexual stirrings come in the form of an erotic dream about her.
11. The beginning of a story, the setting and characters are introduced here.
14. Number twenty, a tattle tale; shows adherence to the rules.