She discovers that 36 will be given the name “Abe” when he is finally assigned. She continues to volunteer at the Nurturing Center. Due to an oversight, she was never put back on the medication. Claire used to take the pills, but was ordered to stop while she was a Vessel. She realizes it has something to do with the pills everyone else takes daily. She never remembers feeling these emotions for anyone else or receiving them from her parents in the past. They tell her that it has something to do with a Giver and a Receiver.Ĭlaire wonders why she is the only person who seems to have an emotional attachment to her son. Claire’s friends don’t understand what he was selected for. After the Ceremony, Claire is told that a boy named Jonas was not given his Assignment. At 12, all children are given their occupations in the Community. Claire also learns the Nurturer has a boy named Jonas who will soon be going through the Selection Ceremony. It is on one of those meetings that she learns 36 was not given to a couple to raise, but will be spending more time at the Nurturing Center to see if he can acclimate to society. Claire develops a kind of friendship with the Nurturer who does this, learning his habits so she can “bump” into him as he takes 36 on errands or to his home.

It also allows the other babies a better night’s sleep because 36 cries throughout the night. One of the workers at the facility regularly takes 36 home at night, hoping that the added stimulation will help the child. She volunteers to help with the babies in her free time so she can be near her son. Eventually, she tracks him down in the Nurturing Center. Although she enjoys the work and the people, she is haunted by thoughts of her son. Before she leaves the area, she is able to discover that her child, number 36, was a boy and did survive birth.Ĭlaire struggles to fit in with others in the Fish Hatchery. She is removed from the Birthmother Dormitory and sent to work among the Fish Hatcheries, as it is determined that she will not be able to deliver another child without complications. The process does not go smoothly for Claire, and the medical staff is forced to cut the Product from her body. Fourteen-year-old Claire is a Vessel, a girl chosen to be implanted with a child, who will, about a year after its delivery, be given to a married couple to raise.

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