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Mentor is the teacher of Jonas and Gabe’s village at the end of the novel. He’s passionate about education and supporting his students. He grudgingly shares that years ago, he traded away his honor to Trademaster to become more handsome so he could court a woman—and he was so unpleasant after the trade that she rejected him. In the present, he has returned to his normal, honorable self.
Mentor Quotes in Son
The Son quotes below are all either spoken by Mentor or refer to Mentor. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Book 3, Chapter 4 Quotes
The veer worked. But not in the way Gabe had planned. He found no math answers there. Instead he had an overwhelming feeling of a kind of passion: for knowledge, for learning of all sorts—and for the children who sat that day at the small desks, as Gabe did. He felt Mentor’s love for his students and his hopes for them and what they would learn from him.
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Book 3, Chapter 10 Quotes
“Evil can do anything, Gabe,” Mentor said, “for a price.”
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Mentor Character Timeline in Son
The timeline below shows where the character Mentor appears in Son. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Book 3, Chapter 4
...he’d told Matty about it. Gabe later learned to control it. Once, he veered into Mentor to try to cheat on a math test, but in Mentor’s mind, he only found...
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Book 3, Chapter 10
Seeing Mentor outside, Jonas tells Gabe to follow him. They catch up to Mentor, and the man...
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...is too caught up in his own thoughts (he now believes Claire) to listen to Mentor say that he did become young and handsome, but without his honor, the widow didn’t...
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Book 3, Chapter 13
...starve die. Returning to his own body and mind, Gabe asks Trademaster if he remembers Mentor—and he says Mentor is now honorable and happy. Trademaster gasps. Gabe mentions Einar, who he...
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