1. PERFORMANCE TASK
By: Sydney Edmondson
ELA 5th
Mrs. Dawson
October 23rd,2012

2. JONAS’ ADVERSITY
Jonas’ adversity was coping with being different among his friends and
family. For example, when Jonas starts seeing that his family doesn’t
really have feelings or emotions he starts feeling different and alone.
Also Jonas doesn’t like the feelings of pain, sorrow, and sadness he
feels with being the Giver, for example when Jonas sees the boy dying
in one of his classes, and then he sees his dad kill a baby twin he really
starts seeing the injustice in their supposed utopia.

3. JONAS’ PERSEVERANCE
Jonas persevered through his adversity by one, looking on the bright side. And two,
his classes with the Giver. Examples of him looking on the bright side are when he
thought about all the good things the Giver had stored away in his mind. Like the
scene of riding the sled, and of a boat riding in the sea. Also his classes with the Giver
took the pain of every day living away because with the Giver he was able to freely
express himself and get lessons that took his mind off of such matters as injustice,
loneliness and knowing that all those living in their so called “utopia” don’t know the
true meaning of love and feelings. Ultimately, though to escape his sufferings he had
to run away from the community, resulting in his memories being scattered
throughout this so called “utopia”.

4. ZEBRA’S ADVERSITY
Zebra’s adversity was coping with his disability, feelings of
sadness, and being bad at art. In the story Zebra got hit by a
car while running ,giving him a disability that can’t easily be
fixed, and this is what causes Zebra to have feelings of
sadness. Along side his other adversities ,in the beginning of
taking art he was not very good.

5. ZEBRA’S PERSEVERANCE
Zebra persevered through his challenge by art. In the story his teacher,
Mr. Wilson, helps bring out his good qualities with art, for example
during his first few days in the class he learns to make cool things out
of recycled materials and draw his hand. Although he starts out rocky
he gets much better and soon his true art abilities get his work noticed
by the teacher who uses them to commemorate a friend who died in
the Vietnam War.

6. THE CAPTAIN OF THE
TITANIC’S ADVERSITY
The captain of the Titanic’s adversity was hitting an iceberg and being arrogant and
proud. Examples of the captain’s arrogance are when he ignored the warnings that
another ship had sent him. Also he only had enough life boats for a few hundred
passengers when there were more than that many people on the ship. As a result of
his arrogance the Titanic hit the iceberg, many lives were lost, and the entire boat
sunk.
Really the root cause of the Titanic’s sinking was because of captain Smith’s arrogance
and pride. Examples of this are when he ignored the warnings from the Californian,
and he also waited until the last few minutes to start steering the ship from the
course of the iceberg.

7. THE CAPTAIN OF THE TITANIC’S
PERSEVERANCE
The captain of the Titanic persevered by doing all he could to get most of the
passengers off of the sinking ship. He also tried to get the most important people
off the boat like the passengers ,and then the crew, he then tried giving signals to
a passing ship. Sadly though these efforts did not succeed in getting all of the
passengers to safety or stopping the sinking of the ship. Although none of this
would have happened if the Titanic’s watch patrol had better equipment and had
stayed vigilant to their duties instead of slacking off.
We have the example of Captain Smith who although in the beginning was
ignorant to the fact that his ship was about to hit an ice berg, he still fearlessly
tried to get all of the passengers and crew off of the sinking ship. He risked his
own escape and safety for that of the passengers and crew. Even though his own
arrogance and self pride led to his down fall he is to be commended for his
bravery. In my own personal opinion I think he knew he would not make it with
the other passengers, and I commend him for his foreknowledge.

8. REFLECTION PAGE
ZEBRA JONAS
• Zebra persevered through his adversity • Jonas persevered through his adversity
with art. He also got a shocking with help from the Giver and escaping.
surprise, that his creations were used Jonas persevered through this adversity
by Mr. Wilson as a commemorative with the Giver by enjoying his visits
item left for his friend who died in the with his trainer, which allowed him to
Vietnam war, and whose name is also clear his mind of all the distresses he
on the Vietnam War Wall. This shows was going through and also let him
that all of Zebra’s efforts to get better freely talk about them. He was also able
at art really had a good affect on him in to witness first hand the way that he
strengthening and speeding up the was living, in his so called “utopia”,
process of his hand healing. Also it which wasn’t all that the citizens and
allowed him to get rid of his inner Elders made it to be. By running away
sadness that had him depressed and and allowing the citizens to deal with
alone after the incident that had caused the memories that Jonas was to keep,
his hand to cripple and for him to never he allowed them to truly see what it
run again. was like to hold all of the memories
from the past whether good or bad.
Which allowing the people to see the
injustice.

9. THE CAPTAIN OF
THE TITANIC
The captain of the Titanic’s adversity
was hitting an iceberg and his
ignorance. He, the crew and
passengers persevered by trying to get
everybody off of the ship while it was
sinking. Although most of the people
on the ship died, he and many others
did try hard to get most of the people
off of the ship. They did this after they
knew the severity of the matter. In the
end bigger doesn’t always mean
better, and the captain of the Titanic
learned that the hard way. The end
result was that innocent lives were
taken, a beautiful expensive boat sunk,
restitution was probably very
expensive if they had to pay back all of
the families for those who had loved
ones who died, and the reputations of
who ever built and thought of the
Titanic were ruined. Although the
Titanic’s sinking was due to Captain
Smith’s arrogance, he did do a pretty
good job of being humble to the fact
that he may not leave the Titanic but
sink with it.

10. REFLECTION PAGE CONTINUED
From all of the character’s that I have discussed in my Power point, I have
learned that challenges can be met no matter what the size or whether for
good or bad. For example, Captain Smith met his challenge by sinking with
the Titanic, next Zebra met his challenge with art which helped him
physically and emotionally. Finally, we have Jonas who met his challenge by
running away. In all of these examples we see that the character reacted in
a brave and self sacrificing way. Jonas, by running away he defied the rules
and regulations of the Elders which could have resulted in death if he were
caught. Captain Smith, risked his life for that of the passengers and crew on
the sinking Titanic, because really he could have left the passengers to die
in the middle of the ocean while he was making a hasty get away. Finally,
we again return to Zebra who channeled his sadness into art, something
that made him happy and worked as a healing agent for his hand. Zebra
really didn’t have to take art, but he did it any way and it benefited him in a
positive way!! These stories have helped me grasp the full meaning of
endurance and perseverance.

11. • All of my visuals came from
www.google.com and my information came
from my THE GIVER book and my McDougal
WORKS CITED PAGE
Littel Literature textbook. A few of the
• www.google.com
thoughts and ideas came from the notes we
• Lowry, Louis (1994). THE GIVER .-
Boston: McDougal Litell had to take in class and a few of my own
• Potok, Chaim. “Zebra”. McDougal ideas.
Little Literature. Boston: McDougal
Little, 2009
• All photos retrieved between
October 23rd- October 31st, 2012
• Ballard, D. Robert. “Exploring The
Titanic”. Georgia McDougal Little
Literature book