![]() 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. ![]() 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. 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. 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. ![]() 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. ![]()
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