Foreshadowing in "The Giver"

All right guys, so today we're gonna be talking a little bit about the literary device foreshadowing and what that is is a device that's used when a writer gives a hint of what is going to happen later on in the story. This can not only be used in literature, but it can be used in movies as well. For example, we've all seen The Lion King. And I'm sure you remember the scene where Mufasa and Simba are having a father son moment and looking out over the stars and Mufasa says, look at the stars, the great kings of the past look down on us from those stars. So whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you and so will I. Why do you think that at the beginning of this movie Mufasa and Simba had this father son moment and Mufasa also included and so will I, this tells us that something bad is probably going to happen to Mufasa and unfortunately it does. So my question for you today is how Lois Lowry used foreshadowing to let readers know that Jonas will be assigned the receiver of memory. We just found out that Jonas received this job at the end of chapter 8, so now what we're going to do is we're going to look back and look at all of the clues that lower dropped to show us that this is going to be that this was going to be his assignment. First of all, in chapters one through 8, we learned character traits about all the other characters in the book early on, except for Jonas. We learned that Asher talks very quickly. He's very good humored. His father was a natural nurturer and very caring. His mother works for the Department of Justice and is very understanding. Lily is just 7 years old. She's very youthful. Fiona, Jonas friend is very naturally good at caretaker. Take caretaking, but we don't know too much about Jonas himself. Even though we don't know too much about Jonas, we do know that he is different. For example, we learned that he has pale eyes, sort of like Gabriel, but he Gabriel and another four in the community are the only people who are noted to have pale eyes. We also learn about the apple incident when he's playing catch with Asher, and then when the apple is flying towards him, he realizes that something changes. So these are two major hands to note that Jonas is different from everybody else in the community. Now, changing gears, we also learned about a lot of the job assignments. For example, the pilots deliver food and supplies to the community, the committee of elders assigned the different jobs. The nurturers are in charge of raising new children until they hit the ceremony of yuan, and the laborers are responsible for physical labor jobs. But the receiver was only mentioned briefly in his job was not being very clear. Lauer only tells us early on in the book that the receiver is the most important elder. He is important, but he isn't mentioned again. Weird. I definitely thought so. So towards the end of chapter 8, the chief elder stands there and she lists all of the reasons why Jonas was qualified for this position. She gives us 5 and says that he is intelligent and that he was a top student and always does well in school. He demonstrates integrity in her example was that he always presented himself for chastisement because everybody in the community breaks rules and they were hoping that he would come clean, which he always did. He needed to have courage and in his childhood this was shown through small acts of bravery. They also said that he needed to have wisdom. She mentioned that he doesn't exactly have wisdom yet, but it's something that he can attain. And last but not least, the capacity to see beyond. And we know that he has this because of the apple incident early on in the book and because when he's standing there in front of the entire community, the crowd changes just like the apple does. So in conclusion, Lois Lowry intentionally leaves out details about Jonas and the job of the receiver in order to help the readers predict that this was the job at Jonas to be receiving at his ceremony of 12.