He realizes that no one around him has ever felt any real emotions at all. Needless to say, this completely changes how Jonas looks at this world. While Jonas gets to experience lots of fun things like Christmas and birthday parties, he also has to deal with bad memories, like sunburn, loss, death, and warfare. The very first memory he receives is that of sledding down a hill in the snow. The memories are from before their community was established, back when there was color and love and music and emotion and hills and snow and sunshine, all of which are notably absent from Jonas's world. These aren't just any old personal memories rather, the old man is passing on to Jonas all the memories of humanity, going way back.
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Then Jonas starts his training, which consists of receiving a series of memories from the old Receiver, who is now referred to as the Giver. They tell him that he isn't allowed to discuss his Receiver "training" with anyone, that he's allowed to lie! He can ask anyone any question he wants, even if it's rude. Now the Jonas has been selected to be Receiver, he gets a list of rules. If the baby doesn't get better within a year or two, he's going to be released from the community. Speaking of light eyes, Jonas's family has been taking care of a sick baby named Gabriel with this same unusual characteristic.
This is also a big deal Jonas is one of the very few people in the community with light eyes. Jonas looks over at the current Receiver, an old man, like Jonas, has light eyes. The Chief Elder finishes the ceremony, and explains that Jonas has been "selected" to be The Receiver of Memory, which is a big deal. Jonas watches all his friends get their jobs, but then he's skipped. There's a big ceremony at which the decisions are announced. It only happens to sick infants or really old people, or to people who break the rules. Jonas is almost twelve, and it's almost time for him to get assigned a profession. It seems that no one has really left the area, except to visit other neighboring communities. Any sign of individual identity no longer exists, and everyone is essentially just like everyone else. Everything is controlled by "The Elders", right down to who you will marry, who you receive as children, and what you will be "assigned" as a job. In his "community", there is no suffering, hunger, war, and, as you will soon see, no color, music, or love.
The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is about an eleven-year-old boy who lives in a rigidly controlled society some time in the future.
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