History Characters / TheGiverQuartet

* DisabledLoveInterest: [[spoiler:To Jonas. Unlike most examples, it's pretty permanent.]]

* DisabledLoveInterest: To Claire. Despite his needing a pair of makeshift crutches to walk they easily bond, and Einar teaches her how to climb. They do not, however, end up together, as Claire eventually moves on [[spoiler:to Village, in order to find Gabe]].

* HeroesWantRedheads: He has his Stirrings (basically a first crush) over Fiona, who has red hair. [[spoiler:He ends up with the dark-haired Kira, though.]]

* UncannyValley: An in-universe example. In ''Son'', he's described as having slit pupils and no lips.

* FriendToAllChildren: He's describes as being quite patient with all of his students.

* TookALevelInJerkass: He becomes much less kindly [[spoiler:due to his trade with Trademaster.

* YoungAndInCharge: It's pointed out that he's much younger than plenty of the people he leads, but is in such a position because of the wisdom brought about by his PsychicPowers.
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[[folder: ''Son'']]
!!Claire
Claire is a girl from the Community three years ahead of Jonas, whose disastrous first birth (by emergency C-section) terminates her assignment as Birthmother and gets her reassigned to Fish Hatchery. However, thanks to a slip-up by one of the handlers (they forgot to put her back on the Stirrings pills), she can't stop thinking about her son, Number Thirty-Six: whom the readers know as Gabriel. Overwhelmed with love and grief -- feelings she's kept bottled up due to them being forbidden -- she ends up amnesiac and living with a caring seaside community. As her memories slowly return, she knows she has one goal -- to find her son.

* AgeLift: He was eleven going on twelve in the book, but has been aged up to sixteen for the movie. This may have been due to child labor laws.

* AgeLift: He was eleven going on twelve in the book, but has been aged up to sixteen for the movie. Tis may have been due to child labor laws.

* AgeLift: He was eleven going on twelve in the book, but has been aged up to sixteen for the movie.

* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: She performs some pretty amazing things in the name of finding Gabe but retains a fear of water after nearly drowning in the sea.

* AdultFear: Perhaps one of the most extreme examples of this trope out there. As part of the process of training [[spoiler: his daughter Rosemary]] to be the next Receiver, he is forced to give her all of the memories that he holds- good and bad. She does okay with the good ones, but the bad ones quickly become too much for her to bear and she chooses to [[DrivenToSuicide Release herself]] -- ''with the Giver watching'' (unsurprisingly, the poor guy quickly finds himself having to turn his head). It gets REALLY bad when you consider that not only did the Giver [[spoiler: lose a child]], but he couldn't even turn to his family or community for support- because they literally don't have any concept of what grief even IS (let alone the love that leads to grief!) Really, it's a miracle the guy managed to stay sane.