The Giver Chapter 8
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Chapter 8
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- when all the Twelves have gotten their assignments, the Elder addresses the fact that she skipped Jonas. She apologizes, and everyone accept her apology."
- We accept your apology!
- Jonas, sorry for skipping you out for the ceremony of the tweles.
- Jonas, to be a receiver you needed the qualities such as intelligence, integrity, courage and wisdom.
- She goes on to say that Jonas has not been assigned rather, he has been selected. Selected to be The Receiver of Memory.
- What?!
- Jonas you are assign to be the reciever of the memory.
- The Chief Elder explains that the community has only one Receiver at a time, and that the current Receiver – an old man – trains the next one.
- Jonas, you also need the capacity to see beyond.
- The reciever is going to train another reciever and be the giver.
- The Chief Elder explains that they tried to pick a new Receiver about ten years ago, but it failed. This is clearly an uncomfortable topic for everyone, so she quickly moves on.
- We tried to pick the new receiver ten years ago but it failed.
- Then she starts listing all of Jonas's qualities which qualify him to be The Receiver: intelligence, integrity, courage (there will be pain, she says), and wisdom.
- There is one more quality, she says, "The Capacity to See Beyond."Jonas is just about to object and explain that, actually, he doesn't have any special Capacity, had only see the apple change once.
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