With this career, Jonas learns unsettling truths about his society which he handles well until it affects his own family. He learns that these memories are kept from the community members “for their good,” but could overwhelmingly return to the people if the Receiver ever left the community. Jonas will receive memories of pain, death, love, sensations of temperature and getting sunburnt, he will “feel” peace, even experience color, and more. Jonas is given a prestigious career as the new “Receiver of Memory” where his mentor, “The Giver”, begins to transfer memories from all of time. When each child turns 12, they’re given their career which they will work until the Committee sends them to “Elsewhere”. This dystopian novel is based on Jonas, an 11-year-old boy, and his life in a perfect society.įamilies are designed by a Committee that “gives” children to married couples, where they discuss their feelings from the day, have perfect manners, are obedient citizens, experience no suffering, no pain, and yet, no one reads books, no one experiences the love of a family, no one deals with pain from an injury or trauma from tragedy, and no one has memories to share from their experiences.
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