โ Scribed by Lois Lowry
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
In the "ideal" world
into which Jonas was born, everybody has sensibly agreed that
well-matched married couples will raise exactly two offspring, one boy
and one girl. These children's adolescent sexual impulses will be
stifled with specially prescribed drugs; at age 12 they will receive an
appropriate career assignment, sensibly chosen by the community's
Elders.
This is a world in which the old live in group homes and are
"released"--to great celebration--at the proper time; the few infants
who do not develop according to schedule are also "released," but with
no fanfare.
Lowry's development of this civilization is so deft
that her readers, like the community's citizens, will be easily seduced
by the chimera of this ordered, pain-free society. Until the time that
Jonah begins training for his job assignment--the rigorous and
prestigious position of Receiver of Memory--he, too, is a complacent
model citizen. But as his near-mystical training progresses, and he is
weighed down and enriched with society's collective memories of a world
as stimulating as it was flawed, Jonas grows increasingly aware of the
hypocrisy that rules his world.
With an eerie futuristic
setting, Lowry is once again in top form--raising many questions while
answering few, and unwinding a tale fit for the most adventurous
readers.
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