The Giver

I didn't really understand The Giver until I really got into it. The world in this book is so controlled and so found of sameness that they've forgotten how to love and to feel. Jonas (the main character) gets assigned the job Receiver of Memories, and as the Giver is givein memories he sees what it was like "back and back and back". Blue skies, green grass, snow, the ocean, sorrow, war, death, and love. He also realizes that he is tired of living in a black and white movie he wants color and emotion back in the people's life. But he realizes that all the community wants is a controlling community that stops people from making choices on their own, the want sameness.

No one realizes what they're doing because the only people with emotions are Jonas and the Giver. They together make a plan to leave the community and go for Elsewhere. Jonas insisted that the Giver come with him but he objected because he told him that when he leaves the community all the memories he had given him will come back to the people and he needed to be here when that happened.

I loved this book and I hope that you decide to read it. Plus if you really liked this book there are two more in the series; Gathering Blue and The Messenger.

ENJOY!!!