She arranges her day so she encounters the Nurturer riding his bike home with the child and overhears the Nurturer whisper the boy's name: Abe. She learns that her son has trouble sleeping at night, and that one of the Nurturers takes the child home with him at night, to relieve the strain on the evening shift. She begins visiting the Nurturing Center, where they've taken Product 36, then starts volunteering there.
Lowry explores the nature of love between parent and child, the unnamable bond, forbidden in a community that places a high priority on detachment. I mean that it's fine." But it's too late. The official also lets slip that "he's fine," then corrects herself, "It. Claire is "suffused with a desperate feeling of loss." She asks what the Product's number is, and she's told it's Product number 36. But something goes wrong, and they have to carve the Product out of her. We meet Claire at age 14, as she is being blindfolded in preparation for giving birth to her first Product. And after she produces three Products, Claire will be reassigned. But life in the Birthmothers' Dormitory with the other Vessels is good she is well fed and even pampered. Lowry here tells the story of Claire, assigned the role of Birthmother, though she had "secretly hoped for something more prestigious." Her older brother, for example, was selected for the Department of Law and Justice. Son begins in the community of The Giver, where children leave the Nurturing Center as Ones (one-year-olds) to be adopted by their new families, and the Chief Elder announces their vocations at the Ceremony of Twelve. While it is not necessary to have read the previous three books ( The Giver Gathering Blue and Messenger), it is astonishing to see how Lowry has woven a web that connects all of her characters and their journeys into this moving, climactic finish. With Son, Lois Lowry offers a spellbinding finale to her The Giver quartet, revisiting themes from her earlier titles in surprising, deeply resonant ways.
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