Family units must apply for children, spouses do not get to choose one another but, instead, are matched, and grandparents do not exist. Each morning, they discuss their dreams that they had the previous night during the evening meal, they share feelings about the events of the day, comforting and supporting each other according to the rules of the community.Īs we learn more about Jonas' family, we also learn about the community as a whole. Jonas' mother has an important job with the Department of Justice, and his father has a job as a Nurturer, taking care of newborns. Jonas' family, like all other families in the community, includes a caring mother and father and two children - one male child and one female child. No evidence of disease, hunger, poverty, war, or lasting pain exists in the community. Through Jonas' eyes, his community appears to be a utopia - a perfect place - that is self-contained and isolated from Elsewhere, every other place in the world. Lowry narrates The Giver in third person ("He said," as opposed to "I said," which is called first person), using a limited omniscient viewpoint (only Jonas' thoughts and feelings are revealed).
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