Reading Guide 4 and 5

Reading Guide 4

 

1. What does Jonas love about volunteer hours, and what does this tell us about Jonas? (33)

 

1. Where has Jonas chosen to spend his volunteer hours in the past, and what does that tell us about Jonas? (37)
    

 

1. What does Jonas learn from Larissa about Release? (41)

 

 

Reading Guide 5

 

1.  What does Jonas feel in his dream about Fiona? (46)

 

1. Why does he tell his parents about his dream and about this feeling even though it embarrasses him? (45)
    
2. What are the Stirrings, and why do you think the community wants to prevent the Stirrings? (48)
    
3. What was Jonas’s reaction to the Stirrings? ((49-50)

 

 

 

 

Summary Questions for Chapters 1 - 5

 

 

 

• Mark in your text every rule we have learned that exists in the community.

 

• What have we learned about the use of language and how have we learned it?
  • Why is Jonas careful about language?
  • What standard phrases are used in the community?
  • What do you think happens (in the real world) to phrases when they become standard?

 (Please write a brief answer to each question.)

• What elements of this community seem to you to be utopian and what elements seem to be dystopian?

(Please write an answer to this question. One paragraph)