![]() In the event, he is named "Receiver," to replace an Elder with a unique function: holding the community's memories-painful, troubling, or prone to lead (like love) to disorder the Elder ("The Giver") now begins to transfer these memories to Jonas. Father, a "Nurturer," cares for "newchildren" Mother works in the "Department of Justice" but Jonas's admitted talents suggest no particular calling. ![]() In a radical departure from her realistic fiction and comic chronicles of Anastasia, Lowry creates a chilling, tightly controlled future society where all controversy, pain, and choice have been expunged, each childhood year has its privileges and responsibilities, and family members are selected for compatibility.Īs Jonas approaches the "Ceremony of Twelve," he wonders what his adult "Assignment" will be. ![]()
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