One of the first things Jonas notices about the Giver is that he seems somehow separate from everyone else. In the novel, the author writes “…and the Chief Elder's eyes were now on the one who sat in the middle but he seemed strangely separated from them. It was a man Jonas had never noticed before, a bearded man with light eyes. He was watching Jonas carefully. (Lowry 60-61)” The next day, when Jonas has to report for training, he meets the Giver and begins stammering over his words. He keeps stumbling and then becomes fixated on what was the “precise” thing to say for fear of breaking the rules (Lowry 75). Sitting down, the Giver invites Jonas to sit. Start this meeting in a way that feels relational. He tries to make Jonas feel comfortable because he felt what Jonas is feeling now. When he tries to talk to Jonas about the transmission of memories, Jonas is confused because he thinks that Giver is talking about his childhood and his life, not the life of everyone and everything (Lowry 77). The Giver tries to explain how all these memories “burden” him by descriptively saying, “It's like going...