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Grammar Questions: (The Information of the Text)
What is the purpose/meaning of the rear-buttoning jackets versus the front-buttoning ones? (pg. 52)
Why, according to the text, is the bicycle a “powerful emblem” in the community? (pg. 52)
How many people in the community got to attend the ceremony each year? (pg. 53)
For what “unusual” situation did Jonas’ Father get permission? (pg. 54)
What was significant about the Newchild named “Caleb”? (pg. 56-57)
What was Lilly focused on during her own ceremony? (pg. 57)
Why was Jonas’ family unit not excited about Fritz receiving a bicycle? (pg. 58)
What takes place during the Ceremony of the Tens? (pg. 59)
What Rumor did Asher repeat? (pg. 60)
What do the rules say you can do “if you don’t fit in” to the community? (pg. 61)
Logic Questions: (Interpreting, Comparing/Contrasting, Reasoning)
What is the purpose of the community attaching different privileges to specific years of childhood? (pg. 51-52)
Why would the “entire community” attend the ceremony every year? (pg. 53)
Where do you think “Elsewhere” is to which community members are released? Are there any clues in the book so far which indicate an answer? (pg. 54-55)
In the “Ceremony of Loss” the memory of the first Caleb is said to “fade away gradually from everyone’s consciousness.” How or why does this work? (pg. 56)
Why are some rules, like the younger children learning to ride bikes, fine to break but others are not? (pg. 59)
Why would someone who applied for Elsewhere not receive a Ceremony of Release? (pg. 61)
Rhetoric Questions: (The Analysis of Ideas in the Text)
Consider the various changes each year of childhood in the community brings (e.g. comfort objects, different kinds of jackets, hair ribbons, bicycles, culminating in job assignment). What do you think about intentionally having rites of passage in our life? Are they good, bad, or just neutral? Explain your answer.
What do you think about the Ceremony of Loss and the Murmur of Replacement Ceremony? Is this a good way of doing things or not? Why? (pg. 56-57)
Theological Analysis: (Sola Scriptura)
How might we relate the truths of Psalm 139 to our current reading?
Virtues/Vices/Great Ideas: (Find them in the Text)
Rites of Passage, Holiday