Assess students' ability to analyze how narrative perspective, recurring symbols (notably color and memory), and world-building in Lois Lowry's The Giver develop the novel's central themes—such as conformity vs. individuality, the ethics of control, and the value of memory. Tasks include close-reading selected passages, identifying and interpreting symbolic details, explaining effects of the third-person limited perspective, and citing textual evidence to support claims about how literary craft shapes meaning.