The next day is the Ceremony, started off with an introduction from the Chief Elder (Meryl Streep). Father assures Jonas that the Elders have been watching him closely since he was a baby, so they know where to put him. He asks his parents if they were nervous before they were assigned to their current positions, for fear that there was nothing left for them. They discuss their recent feelings for the day, though Jonas has to be precise with his language, as certain feelings like fear or love are forbidden.

Jonas has dinner at home with his father, mother (Katie Holmes) and younger sister Lilly (Emma Tremblay). Fiona, having a natural talent with children, is able to calm the baby. They are not supposed to know the child's name but Father says he whispers the baby's name to him to soothe him. The kids find a crying baby, whom Father says is named Gabriel. Jonas's Father (Alexander Skarsgard) is working there.

The three friends go to the Nurturing Center where the newborns are. It is the day before their Ceremony in which they will be assigned their positions in the community, something that makes Jonas rather nervous. We follow young teenager Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) as he rides his bike with his two best friends Asher (Cameron Monaghan) and Fiona (Odeya Rush). The citizens have also had their memories wiped. Set in the near-future, following a great war called 'The Ruin', a community in North America has lived in tranquility without the existence of emotions or color, as these would produce conflicts. Unfortunately for Jonas and perhaps his entire world, every previous attempt to escape has ended in failure. Later, as the weight of that responsibility becomes too great a burden for Jonas to bear, he realizes that his only hope of saving the ones he loves most is to flee. When that history is revealed to Jonas over the course of his illuminating sessions with the Giver, the young man learns that the wisdom he now holds could dictate the fate of the entire society. A mysterious yet seemingly benevolent figure, the Giver is the sole guardian of the community's dark and hidden history. The society Jonas lives in is a peaceful one, in large part because their collective memories have been entrusted to the Giver (Jeff Bridges). Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) was raised to believe that conformity is the key to contentment. A young man living in a future where complacency is valued above all else discovers the sinister secrets that hold his fragile society together after being selected to become the Receiver of Memory in this adaptation of author Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning young-adult novel.

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