2. Character One’s Adversity (Jonas)
The Giver
Jonas was becoming a 12. When the
kids in the community become a 12,
they get a specific job. Jonas’s job was
to become, The Receiver. Receivers
share memories with the people of their
community. Jonas thought he was living
in a perfect community, but when The
Giver, the last Receiver, shares
memories with Jonas, he soon realizes
that this was not how they should be
living.
3. Character One Perseveres
Through Adversity (Jonas)
The Giver
Jonas and The Giver make a plan for
Jonas to leave the community without
getting caught. A few days later, Jonas
leaves the community with his bike and a
baby, Gabriel.
4. Character Two’s Adversity (Ernie)
“A Crush”
• Ernie lived with his mother for 31
years, but she died. When she died,
Ernie had to go to a group home
because he can’t live on his own. At
the group home, he brought some
seeds that was accidentally sent to his
home. He loved the pictures on the
cover on the seed packets. A guy,
named Jack, worked at the group
house and had a garden, but Ernie
was afraid to go into it.
5. Character Two Perseveres
Through Adversity (Ernie)
“A Crush”
• One day when Jack took Ernie out for breakfast,
Ernie fell in love when he saw a woman. That
night Ernie couldn’t stop thinking about the
woman and the pictures of the cover on the
seed packets. Then, Ernie was brave enough to
let Jack plant his seeds. Once the seeds were
planted, Ernie put the flowers around the place
where the woman worked. Every Wednesday,
he would put flowers there, but Ernie wouldn’t
go meet her.
6. Character Three’s Adversity (Zebra)
“Zebra”
Adam Martin Zebrin “Zebra”, was a really fast
runner. One day, he ran so fast down a hill and
couldn’t stop. A car was coming around the
corner and Zebra crashed into it. Zebra’s leg
and arm was injured. Now Zebra is very sad
because he can’t run anymore.
7. Character Three Perseveres Through
Adversity (Zebra)
When Zebra meets a man
name John Wilson, John
teaches Zebra how to make
connections to the world
through art. Zebra hasn’t
been down the hill he injured
himself with in a long time,
so at the end, he was brave
enough to walk down that
steep hill, walk back up, past
the school, and then the four
blocks back home.
8. Reflection Page
• All of the characters overcame their
adversity by being brave. Bravery is having
courage in the face of danger.
9. Work Cited
Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Mcdougal
Littell, 1997
Potok, Chaim. “Zebra”. Random
House, Inc., 1998
Rylant, Cynthia. “A Crush”. Orchard
Books/Scholastic, Inc., 1990
