History Characters / TheGiverQuartet

* 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.

%% * InTheBlood: [[spoiler: She was the Giver's daughter.]]

Played by Creator/AlexanderSkarsgard (Jonas's father), Creator/KatieHolmes (Jonas's mother), and Emma Tremblay (Lily) in the 2014 film.

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 -- after [[spoiler:Jonas takes Gabe on his escape to Elsewhere]], 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.

The current Receiver Of Memory, who selects Jonas to become his replacement, a lonely, isolated man who carries all the memories of the time before Sameness. He considers them a burden, but cares deeply about Jonas and the Community and looks out for their best interests.

* 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!

Leader of The Community. Is the speaker at all of the ceremonies in The Community as well.

* BigBad: Of the film.

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Played by Odeya Rush in the 2014 film.

* DisabledLoveInterest: To Claire. Despite his needing a cane 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]].

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Birthmothers are kept off the "pills" that keep deeper feelings in line in order to keep their hormones and such functioning. When Claire is reassigned nobody tells her to start taking them again, so she doesn't. This results in her feeling love for Gabe. Too bad nobody can relate to it. After her memories are wiped she begins to adjust to it (it helps that by this point [[spoiler: she's living in a different community, with people who DO understand love]].

* TogetherInDeath: [[spoiler:It's implied that Rosemary is his biological daughter, and that, after he helps the Community adjust to having emotions, he'll "release" himself to reunite with her]].

* WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove: Birthmothers are kept off the "pills" that keep deeper feelings in line in order to keep their hormones and such functioning. When Claire is reassigned nobody tells her to start taking them again, so she doesn't. This results in her feeling love for Gabe. Too bad nobody can relate to it. After her memories are wiped she begins to adjust to it.

Once called Fierce Einar due to his rebelliousness, he was the first to climb out of the cliffs that isolate their community -- only to come down just as quickly with part of his foot missing, the circumstances of which he refuses to discuss. Having been dubbed Lame Einar, he now tends the sheep.

* AbusiveParents: His father was verbally, physically, and (it is heavily implied) sexually abusive towards him, due to Einar "causing" his mother's death.

* AbusiveParents: His father was verbally and physically cruel to him, due to Einar "causing" his mother's death.

Claire is a girl from the Community three years ahead of Jonas, whose disastrous first birth (by 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, 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 -- after [[spoiler:Jonas takes Gabe on his escape to Elsewhere]], 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.

* NoNameGiven: Jonas's parents are referred to simply as "Mother" and "Father".

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler:Jonas thinks of his dad as a stand-up kind of guy who loves his job caring for the babies. And... he is. But in this society, "caring" for the babies can sometimes mean ''euthanizing them''.]]

* MentorsNewHope: The Receiver of Knowledge who mentors Jonas is revealed [[spoiler: to have had another protege in the past, hinted to have been his own biological daughter (in their society, children are assigned to parents other than their birthmothers), who committed suicide out of despair brought on by the knowledge she received from her mentor, and was unpersoned by the Community]].

* 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]]- ''right in front of the Giver'' (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!

* 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 [[DrivenToSuicide to Release herself]]- ''right in front of the Giver'' (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!

* 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 to much for her to bear and she chooses [[DrivenToSuicide to Release herself]]- ''right in front of the Giver'' (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!

* 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. When he starts giving her the bad ones she quickly becomes overwhelmed. Ultimately, the pain and burden become so great that she ends up [[DrivenToSuicide Releasing herself]]- ''right in front of the Giver'' (unsurprisingly, the poor guy quickly finds himself having to turn his head). Really, it's a miracle the guy managed to stay sane!

* CrapsackOnlyByComparison: Inverted. At first he ''thinks'' that he's in a utopia, but it's actually more of a CrapsackWorld.

* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: People who work with the very young or the old are conditioned to accept [[spoiler:euthanasia]] as a fact of life, starting from their early adolescence. [[spoiler:This includes Jonas's father, who nonchalantly euthanizes a baby.]]

Once called Fierce Einar due to his rebelliousness, he was the first to climb out of the cliffs that isolate their community -- but fell down just as quickly due to an injury he refuses to talk about. Having been dubbed Lame Einar, he now tends the sheep.

* DefiledForever: Few people in her new home want anything to do with her after her TeenPregnancy is discovered.