This document summarizes three stories: The Giver, Zebra, and Titanic. In The Giver, Jonas learns dark truths about his community and plans his escape with The Giver. In Zebra, the title character is hit by a car and breaks his finger, but finds friendship with art teacher Neil. In Titanic, Ruth Becker is a passenger who boards a lifeboat with her family as the ship sinks. All three stories involve characters overcoming struggles.

1. PERFORMANCE TASK
By: Celeste Hendry 5th period ELA

2. THE GIVER: JONAS
 Jonas is a boy in this community that’s played out as a perfect life.
He is very different than the other Elevens. In a way, he acts
rebellious to what the Elders, or the people in control, of the
community say. Jonas is basically the black of the community.

3. HIS CONFLICT
 Jonas is turning into a Twelve, and he starts his career training. His
job is to be a Receiver for the community. In this workforce, he soon
finds out that his “perfect” life is not the way it seems. He soon
receives memories that the community has been hiding from them.
He gets to fell and that makes him very vicious; so he comes up with
a plan.

4. SOLUTION
 He and The Giver make a plan for him to escape. During the
Twelves’ ceremony, he escapes, and The Giver makes it to were Jonas
died in a river. He’s forgotten by the community and was never
spoken of again.

5. ZEBRA
 Zebra is a little boy who loved to run. Most of the people in the
neighborhood knew him as Zebra because the way he ran. He was in
the 7th grade and he was a very lonely child.

6. HIS CONFLICT
 Zebra was running down a hill one day, the hill was very steep, and
a car hit him when he was coming around the corner of the hill. He
then got a broken finger, which Zebra didn’t like. Until one day he
saw a man named, Neil, who was like him but he was missing an arm.
Now this man was in the Vietnam War, but Zebra didn’t know that.
All he knew was that the man loved to draw and he wanted to start an
art class at Zebra’s school during the summer.

7. SOLUTION
 Zebra joined Neil’s art class and soon became good friends with
him. When the art class was over, Neil asked Zebra and a few other
students to leave an art picture for him to remember them by. After
Neil had visited the Vietnam wall in remembrance, of his former
friend, he then carried the art to his studio in Virginia.

8. TITANIC: RUTH BECKER
 Ruth Becker was a 12 year old, in second class, on the luxurious
Titanic. She had boarded with her mother, little brother, and her little
sister, they looked forward to this cruise to America, because her
father was waiting for them to come. Like any other 12 year old, she
was quite amused by the texture of the ship.

9. HER CONFLICT
 It was the third day after they took sail, look-out Fredrick Fleet
saw an iceberg, and soon after the ship hit the iceberg. Ruth and her
mother were awaken by the commotion of the screaming people in
the halls. She and her family were soon took up to the top of the ship
to board lifeboats.

10. SOLUTION
 Thankfully, her and her family got off the ship in time before it
sank. But as she looked back at the sinking ship she could hear the
waling cries of the left people on that ship, then it just faded away in
the depths of the freezing sea.

11. COMPARISONS
 In all the books, they had to overcome some type of struggle. In
“The Giver,” Jonas had to overcome the barren of being a receiver. In
“Zebra,” Zebra had to overcome his fear of his broken fingers. And
in “The Titanic,” Ruth had to overcome the struggle of getting off
the ship safely for her and her family.
 THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!