Evidence found at a crime scene might include a broken window, footprints, and missing property. These are the clues detectives use to figure out what happened during a crime.
In the same way that evidence of a crime helps detectives make a case, textual evidence can help you support your claim about a novel. Textual evidence can include summaries of plot events, as well as direct quotes. (Direct quotes are words copied from a text, exactly as they appear on the page.)
You can look in several different places to find textual evidence. Click each box to learn where to find examples of textual evidence.
Did you notice that some of these elements in The Giver seemed especially important? Try answering these questions about the novel.
Samson plans to argue that The Giver develops this theme:
People who don’t know history are doomed to repeat its mistakes.
Which detail in the setting provides evidence for his claim?
- The story takes place long after there has been a worldwide disaster.
- The weather in the Community is kept pleasant through technology.
- Most members of the Community are not allowed to make decisions.
Other than the Receiver and a few Elders, no one in the Community is told what happened before they were born or before the Community was founded. They also receive very little information about events that occur during their lifetimes. According to the Community’s founders, this lack of information makes people less qualified to make their own decisions.
Other than the Receiver and a few Elders, no one in the Community is told what happened before they were born or before the Community was founded. They also receive very little information about events that occur during their lifetimes. According to the Community’s founders, this lack of information makes people less qualified to make their own decisions.
Other than the Receiver and a few Elders, no one in the Community is told what happened before they were born or before the Community was founded. They also receive very little information about events that occur during their lifetimes. According to the Community’s founders, this lack of information makes people less qualified to make their own decisions.
According to Kiki, one theme in The Giver is the impossibility of completely controlling human nature through rules or technology. Which events in The Giver would provide the best evidence for her claim?
- the annual Ceremony when children gain independence
- all the times people tried to escape or were released
- the first time Jonas received some memories from the Giver
If the Community’s attempts to control human nature were effective, no one would attempt to leave or break the rules.
If the Community’s attempts to control human nature were effective, no one would attempt to leave or break the rules.
If the Community’s attempts to control human nature were effective, no one would attempt to leave or break the rules.
Pablo believes that the main theme of The Giver can be summed up this way:
Knowledge is power.
What change in Jonas provides evidence for Pablo’s claim?
- After receiving the Memories, Jonas is willing and able to leave.
- As his training continues, Jonas becomes more and more upset.
- Jonas stops taking the required daily pill and feels more normal.
After he experiences love and other strong feelings, Jonas wants everyone in the Community to feel the joy he has felt and to know what he knows. Because the Giver has trained him well, Jonas becomes wise and brave enough to give his society the ultimate gift.
After he experiences love and other strong feelings, Jonas wants everyone in the Community to feel the joy he has felt and to know what he knows. Because the Giver has trained him well, Jonas becomes wise and brave enough to give his society the ultimate gift.
After he experiences love and other strong feelings, Jonas wants everyone in the Community to feel the joy he has felt and to know what he knows. Because the Giver has trained him well, Jonas becomes wise and brave enough to give his society the ultimate gift.
When Jonas asks his parents if they love him, the answer is not what Jonas had hoped to hear. Instead of saying yes, his father teases Jonas for being imprecise and Jonas’s mother says that the word love is “so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete.” Which theme is supported by the words of Jonas’s parents?
- The bond between parent and child is unbreakable.
- Love is difficult―if not impossible―to control.
- It’s difficult to speak honestly about feelings.
Compared to enjoyment and pride, love can mean many things and take many forms, which makes it harder for the Community to regulate through rules and training. Their fear of what love can make people do may be one reason that the Community’s leaders insist on the precision of language above all else.
Compared to enjoyment and pride, love can mean many things and take many forms, which makes it harder for the Community to regulate through rules and training. Their fear of what love can make people do may be one reason that the Community’s leaders insist on the precision of language above all else.
Compared to enjoyment and pride, love can mean many things and take many forms, which makes it harder for the Community to regulate through rules and training. Their fear of what love can make people do may be one reason that the Community’s leaders insist on the precision of language above all else.
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