The Giver Page #3

After training, return

immediately to your dwelling.

Two:
From this moment,

you are exempt from all

rules governing rudeness.

You may ask any question.

Three:
Aside from

your daily injection,

you may not receive other medicines,

especially those for pain.

Injected. S-7- 5- 2.

Four:
You may not discuss

your training with anyone.

Ever.

Yours look so important.

I don't know. I stick out.

Well, yeah, there's only

one Receiver of Memory.

Two.

What did they say again?

You have the capacity to see beyond?

Yeah.

Can't wait to hear

every single detail.

Five:
You may lie.

Asher and I, we used

to dare each other

to get close to his place.

It was built right on the Edge.

We'd all heard of people

getting lost to the Edge,

never to be seen again.

And yet, here I was,

being told that I'd have to

get close to it every day,

for the rest of my life.

Welcome.

Hi.

- I'm Jonas. I'm...

- Please gaze at the sensor.

Welcome, Receiver of Memory.

They're called books.

Your books.

- My name is...

- I know who you are.

Of course.

I apologize.

I apologize.

Don't say that.

"I apologize."

Don't apologize to me ever again.

Not here.

We haven't the time.

"I apologize."

That's an automatic pleasantry.

It doesn't mean anything.

I apologize. I'm sorry.

I mean...

We are here for only one purpose.

Simply stated, although it

isn't really simple at all,

I will transmit to you all the

memories that I hold within me.

Memories of the past.

I would be very interested

to learn about your life.

No, no. Not...

Not my life.

You will learn the secret

history of the world.

Before me, before you, generations...

Back and back and back.

When things were different,

when there was more.

More?

The chair.

You see, no one in our Community

has any memory of the past.

Only me.

When the... Elders need

guidance on matters that are

beyond their experience,

I provide wisdom.

That is now your role.

To provide guidance in the present

using memories of the past.

Move closer.

Where to begin?

Move closer.

Closer.

There is no way for me to prepare you

for what I'm going to do now.

You can take comfort in knowing

you are completely helpless.

If any of this proves too much

for you, tell me immediately.

I just have...

Holy night

All

That was...

It was...

How did that happen?

What do you mean, how? It happened.

But it's impossible.

And yet, it happened.

Well, why?

Why don't we have...

Th...

That thing?

Go on. The memories,

they give you the word.

It's not a "thing." It's...

- Sled.

- Sled.

And the...

- Snow.

- Snow.

Did my parents have them? Did you?

No, no. It's a very distant memory.

Simply stated, there is no snow

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