Jonas faces a dilemma in his community where people live without love, color, choices or knowledge. He must decide whether to stay or escape to live a full life. Jimmy is an ex-convict who has changed his ways but must decide whether to use his safe-cracking skills to save his fiancée's niece or maintain his new life. Zebra has to decide whether to sit home depressed after an accident or attend drawing classes to help his recovery.

1. Perseverance
{ By Paris Jones

2.  Jonas is selected to inherit the position of
"Receiver of Memory,” The person who stores all
the past memories of the time before Sameness, in
case they are ever needed to aid in decisions that
others lack the experience to make. As Jonas
receives the memories from the Giver, he
discovers the power of knowledge. The people in
his community are happy because they do not
know of a better life, but the knowledge of what
they are missing out on could create major chaos.
He faces a dilemma: Should he stay with the
community, his family living a shallow life
without love, color, choices, and knowledge, or
should he run away to where he can live a full
life?
Jonas

3. Jonas has to make the decision to pick a life without
color, knowledge, and important memories or he can run away and give
Gabe the opportunity to live the proper way. I think Jonas should live
his life the proper way, with color and knowledge. I also think that he
should take Gabe with him for him to have a better chance at life than
Jonas did.

4.  In this story, Jimmy is ex-convict and is just let
out of jail before he starts up his business again.
Ben Price, catches up with him again after
seeing reports about safe cracking's and
decides to take him down. At this time, Jimmy
has fallen in love and has changed his ways, for
better or worse. But when his fiancé's niece gets
locked up in her grandfather’s new safe his has
to make a hard decision, not help and live
continue to live his life in a lie or put his skills
up for the test and save the child.
Jimmy (Page 228- A Retrieved
Reformation

5. { Life Of A Lie
{ Save The Girl
Jimmy has to make a decision, a live a life as a lie or save the girl. I think
that Jimmy should save the girl because he has been doing wrong all of
his life, I think that he should do something nice and right for someone
other than himself.

6. Zebra (Pg. 184)
{ Zebra is about a boy who’s nickname was Zebra
because of how fast he could run. They said by the way
he bent his neck, it made him look like a zebra. One day
he was out running, and he ran down a hill to fast and
got hit by a car. After the accident, he goes to school and
meets Vietnam solider John Wilson. Over the summer
be faces a dilemma. Should he start back running or go
to drawing classes with John Wilson?

7. Zebra has to make a
decision, sit at home
with a broken hand
or go the drawing
{
classes taught by
Vietnam John
Wilson. I think that
he should go to the
classes because he
would just sit at him
depressing himself
because of his hand.

8. Reflection
{ All three characters perseverance through three
different adversities. Some through knowledge
and happiness, others out of the
of being alone, and some depressing. The
characters were strong throughout their story and
made the right decision each time.

9.  Lowry, Lois. The Giver. U.S. Bantam Books, 1993
 Potok, C. Zebra McDougal Literature Boston: M’
Douglas Littell
 O. Henry. A Retrieved Reformation McDougal
Literature Boston: M’ Douglas Littell
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