Does a surrogate mother never feel attached to a child that she delivers? A mother will always love the newborn. I feel it’s the magic of the umbilical cord that connects the mother to the child. It’s a gush of mutual love.
The final instalment of ‘THE GIVER’ quartet is a journey of this mother, Claire, who undertakes a journey to hunt down her son. Claire is from the dystopian society mentioned in ‘THE GIVER’ where people are assigned roles once they turn twelve. Claire was assigned the role of a birth mother and her role was to deliver babies. They artificially inseminated her and when she got pregnant and was about to deliver, some complication occurs due to which she is moved out of the birthing center and she is moved to a hatchery unit. She delivers a baby boy, and she only remembers that the baby has a fixed number of 36. Her motherly instincts push her towards the baby which is taken care of in the nurturing unit.
I admired the resilience and the courage that Claire sported and the determination that propelled her towards the baby.
The story has many twists and turns and moves between different places that have different cultures and spirits. Having come from a place that is deprived of colours, animals, birds, etc. Claire is alarmed, scared, and has mixed
The final book knits together all the events from the previous parts. Suddenly coming across names that you have read earlier rings a bell and makes you refer to the earlier books and then there is an ahh moment.
A character that I detested in books three and four was the ‘Trademaster’. I think he was symbolic of a capitalist, who keeps trading to gain more for himself, portraying the selfish, greedy mentality.
The four books in this series have dystopian societies and the ultimate victory of empathy and humanity is what I enjoyed the most. All the books are amazing, and I thoroughly enjoyed them.