Jobs like Nurturers are given in capital letters, treating them as proper nouns. What do you learn about the community from this?
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Jobs
Jobs in the community are selected at the Ceremony of Twelve by the Committee of Elders. The Committee watches children from the age of three to twelve and determines their job within that time period.
• Pilot- The pilots fly cargo planes and deliver supplies to the landing field across the river (Lowry 2). It is against the rules for the pilots to fly their planes over the community (Lowry 1).
• Street Cleaners- They clean the streets (Lowry 2).
• Landscape Workers- They work on the land and streets around the community (Lowry 2).
• Instructor- They are similar to teacher (Lowry 4).
• Nurturer- They are responsible for all the physical and emotional needs of every new child during its earliest life (Lowry 9).
• Night Crew Nurturers- They take care of the new children at night when the Nurturers go home. The night crew is known as a “lesser” job in the community (Lowry 10).
• Department of Justice- They are basically like a court in today’s time (Lowry 11).
• Committee of Elders- They watch the children from ages three to eleven and observe where they spend their volunteer hours, so they can figure out what the child’s assignment will be (Lowry 19). They also make a list of the new children’s names for the naming ceremony (Lowry 15).
• Receiver of Memory- This person has all the memories of the world (Lowry 98). They get these memories from The Giver. The Giver is the current receiver of memory who then passes the memories on to the child that is chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory (Lowry 98).
• The Gardening Crew- These people make the community look nice (Lowry 125).
• Fish Hatchery Attendant- This person makes sure that the fish hatch properly (Lowry 66).
• Birth mother- This person gives birth to the children of the community (Lowry 67).
• Instructor of Sixes- This person a teacher for the group number 6 (Lowry 67).
• Doctor- This person takes care of the people in the community if they have been injured (Lowry 71).
• Engineer- This person fixes and makes machines for certain things (Lowry 71).
• Law and Justice- This person is apart of managing the law and making consequences for people who break the rules of the community (Lowry 71).
• Caretaker of the Old- This person works at the House of Old and they take care of the elderly before they are released (Lowry 71).
• Laborers- The laborers do basically whatever labor the community needs (Lowry 59).
• Speaker- This person gives announcements to the whole community throughout an intercom system (Lowry 47).
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