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