extract from chapter 8 - the Chief Elder reports about Jonas' selection
The extract is about Jonas' selection at the Ceremony of Twelves, at which he expects to get his assignment but he never had thought taht he could be selected for something special.
The Chief Elder first skips him but at least he shall come to the stage, where she tells him and the citizens that he has been identified as possible Receiver of Memories many years ago, observed carefully to look wether he has the qualities a Receiver of Memories must have and now he is selected as the new Receiver.
The qualities are intelligence, which could show in his school days, courage, which he could show in his volunteer hours, integraty, wisdom and the ''Capacity to See Beyond'', which he could show in the incident with the apple.
In this incident with the apple he schowed that he doesn't see the things just like they are.
He is looking beyond and he could see the capacity, which an apple could show, when someone looks at the things not just like they really are.
In chapter 8 this happens again, not with an apple but with the citizens.
Thank you for the brief summary of the main qualities of a possible receiver which the Chief Elder thinks Jonas inherits.
ReplyDelete- check the difference between "at least" and "at last"
- the qualities are intelligence, which HE could show in his school days,
- he CAN see sth (keep it to the simple present!)
- you can't "see" a capacity, you rather feel that you have the capacity.