“I’ve seen you taking walks,” he said. The Giver sighed. “I walk. I eat at mealtime.
And when I am called by the Committee of Elders, I appear before them, to give them counsel and advice.”
“Do you advise them often?” Jonas was a little frightened at the thought that one day he would be the one to advise the ruling body.
But The Giver said no. “Rarely. Only when they are faced with something that they have not experienced before.
Then they call upon me to use the memories and advise them. But it very seldom happens.
Sometimes I wish they’d ask for my wisdom more often—there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change.
But they don’t want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable—so painless. It’s what they’ve chosen.”
“I don’t know why they even need a Receiver, then, if they never call upon him,” Jonas commented.
“They need me. And you,” The Giver said, but didn’t explain. “They were reminded of that ten years ago.”
“What happened ten years ago?” Jonas asked. “Oh, I know. You tried to train a successor and it failed. Why? Why did that remind them?”
The Giver smiled grimly. “When the new Receiver failed, the memories that she had received were released.
They didn’t come back to me. They went...” He paused, and seemed to be struggling with the concept.
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