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Start: Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver of Memory. Such a selection is very, very rare. We have had one Receiver for a very long time. It is he who will train his successor.
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End: You must also have a quality which none of us will understand. But perhaps Jonas will. The Receiver calls it the Capacity to See Beyond. Jonas. You will be trained to be our next Receiver of Memory. We thank you for your childhood.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Eric Coble, The Giver, Dramatic Publishing, 2016, pp. 21-22.
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