Jonas's mother

{3}{b/g}“Lily,” her mother said fondly, “you’re very close to being an Eight, and when you’re an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without it.”
Jonas’s mother is the stricter of his two parents. She holds a prominent position at the Department of Justice, and her job involves punishing citizens who break the community’s rules.