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  1. A summary of Chapters 1 & 2 in Lois Lowry's The Giver. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Giver and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.

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      Chapters 1 & 2 Chapters 3 & 4 Chapters 5 & 6 Chapter 7-9...

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      A list of all the characters in The Giver. The Giver...

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      The Giver is written from the point of view of Jonas, an...

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      Chapters 1 & 2 Chapters 3 & 4 Chapters 5 & 6 Chapter 7-9...

  2. A summary of Chapters 1 & 2 in J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The Catcher in the Rye and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.

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    Katniss Everdeen, who tells her story in the first person, wakes up. It is the day of the reaping. She sees her little sister, Prim (short for Primrose), asleep in bed with their mother across the room. Katniss puts on her clothes to go hunting. The area where she and her family live is called the Seam, and its part of District 12. They are at the ...

    As Prim walks up to the stage, Katniss, in a panic, rushes forward and shouts that she is volunteering as tribute. A volunteer is allowed to take the place of the person whose name is drawn, but this never happens in District 12. Katniss and Prim embrace, and Gale has to pull Prim away from Katniss. Katniss fights back any sign of emotion because c...

    Katniss is escorted into the Justice Building and left in a room. Her mother and sister are brought in to say their goodbyes, and Katniss makes her mother promise not to fall apart again. She tells them she loves them as theyre led out. Peter Mellarks father, the baker, comes in. Katniss often trades him squirrels for bread. He gives Katniss cookie...

  3. Winston understands that in order to combat the reality control practiced by the State, he must record his private thoughts, even if he cannot share them with another person. Winston's struggle to hold onto his beliefs is the ultimate subject of the novel. Active Themes. Celona, Tina. "1984 Book 1, Chapter 2." LitCharts.

  4. Sacrifice. Resurrection. Imprisonment. Summary. Analysis. On a stormy night in late November 1775, the mail coach from London slogs its way toward Dover. Three passengers sit in the carriage. Everyone is suspicious of each other. When he hears an approaching horse, the coach driver stops the carriage: it's a messenger seeking one of the ...

  5. The Giver Summary and Analysis of Chapters 1-2. Chapter 1. Jonas feels uneasy, but he knows that "frightened" is not the correct word. He has been truly frightened only once before, when a plane flew off course over the community a year ago. During the incident, an announcement over the speakers ordered everyone inside, and Jonas had been ...

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  7. Summary and Analysis Chapter 1. Major's speech seems to initially echo the thoughts of Thomas Hobbes, the seventeenth-century English philosopher who wrote (in his work Leviathan) that men in an unchecked state of nature will live lives that are "poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Unlike Hobbes, however, who felt that a strong, authoritative ...

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