What are the rules in The Giver with page numbers?

The page numbers that the rules are located on are going to vary depending upon the copy/edition of the book which you own. Thus, to make this answer as consistent as possible, I will provide an outline of the rules according to the chapter that they take place in:

Chapter 1:

• Planes may not fly over the Community. 


• Precision of language must be used to prevent any sort of confusion. It is necessary to say...

The page numbers that the rules are located on are going to vary depending upon the copy/edition of the book which you own. Thus, to make this answer as consistent as possible, I will provide an outline of the rules according to the chapter that they take place in:

Chapter 1:

• Planes may not fly over the Community. 


• Precision of language must be used to prevent any sort of confusion. It is necessary to say exactly what one means.


• Every family unit must have two children (one male, one female).


• The third time someone violates a rule, he or she will be brought before the Department of Justice and released from the Community.

Chapter 2:

• The Naming List, which lists out the names of the new children in the Community, is to be kept secret. 


• Bicycle riding is not permitted until one becomes a Nine. 


• Comfort objects are to be confiscated when one become an Eight.

Chapter 3:

• Objects are not to be removed or taken home from the Recreational Center.

Chapter 4:

• One should not brag about one's own accomplishments.


• Volunteer hours must be completed in order to receive one's assignment as a Twelve.


• Eights are given the freedom of choice. 


• Members of the Community may not look at each other naked, with the exception being the elderly and new children.

Chapter 5:

• Stirrings are to be treated with the consumption of morning medicine, and Stirrings are to be reported so that treatment may take place.

Chapter 6:

• Fours, Fives, and Sixes are to wear jackets that button in the back.


• Sevens are to wear jackets that button in the front.


• Elevens are to transition into clothing appropriate for their adolescent bodies.


• One may, technically speaking, request to be released to go Elsewhere.

Chapter 10:

• Doors must not be locked within the Community (with the exception of The Giver's door).