Finally, when all the Twelves have gotten their assignments, the Elder addresses the fact that she skipped Jonas. She apologizes, and everyone ritualistically chants, "We accept your apology."
She goes on to say that Jonas has not been assigned; rather, he has been selected.
Selected to be…
The Receiver of Memory.
Evidently, this a big deal, because the crowd all basically gasps.
The Chief Elder explains that the community has only one Receiver at a time, and that the current Receiver—an old man—trains the next one.
Everyone looks over to the Committee of Elders where the current Receiver—indeed a very old man—sits. He has pale eyes, just like Jonas.
The Chief Elder explains that they tried to pick a new Receiver about ten years ago, but it failed. This is clearly an uncomfortable topic for everyone, so she quickly moves on.
There's no room for error here, she says, so they've been careful in selecting Jonas, who now has to lead what is portrayed as a mostly solitary life.
Oh.
Then she starts listing all of Jonas's qualities which qualify him to be The Receiver: intelligence, integrity, courage (there will be pain, she says), and wisdom (although Jonas doesn't have this yet, he'll soon be acquiring it. By the boatload).
There is one more quality, she says, "The Capacity to See Beyond."
Jonas is just about to object and explain that, actually, he doesn't have any special Capacity, when he looks over the crowd and sees them "change," the same way the apple once did.
So he says to the Chief Elder that yes, indeed, he does sometimes see something.
So everything is hunky-dory. The crowd chants his name and Jonas is both proud and fearful of what is to come.
It’s A lot But It Tells A lot Of The Chapter
I: Both hold that humans have a function and that virtue is necessary for its fulfillment.
II: Both hold that certain sorts of actions are intrinsically wrong and that we can know that they are by intellectual apprehension and reason.
III: Both hold that things have natures, that their natures determine what is good for them and what is bad for them, and that wickedness is contrary to human nature.
You can do 100 words
You got this!
If you can only choose one, I'd say the third option is the correct answer.
Answer:
Two words using the root -gest- are gesture and digestion. The original meaning of the root as inherited from Lating was "carry" or "perform". In modern English, however, the word has a separate meaning of "a tale of adventures" or "a romance in verse" (according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary).
Explanation:
Here is a sentence with the word "gesture".
<u>Peter's gift was a very kind gesture.</u>
As for the connection of the word "gesture" with its root: the gift actually "carries" kindness or "performs" an act of kindness.
Each friend will pay $325.
Simply divide 2,275 by the total number of friends, 7, to get 325.
To check, we can multiply 325 by 7 and see that it does equal 2,275, meaning each of the seven friends will have an equal 325 of the rent.
