The Giver - Book Review The Giver is about Jonas, his family, The Giver, Asher, and Fiona. It’s about the community that they live in. The community is different from ours because it seems to be “perfect”, and it supports all the needs of everyone. Some themes that stand out are Memory Concept of Release Emotion Growing Up Responsibility Lois Lowry writes in a strange science-fiction style. In my opinion it seems like it is for 10-12 years of age. She uses a variety of complex words in her book;there are also statements and expressions for children/teens that are easily relatable. However, I found it difficult to relate to the characters in the book. Lois Lowry writes for people just around the middle age group between kids and adults, but leaning just a bit over to the kids’ side. I 100% DISagree with the idea of the whole community in The Giver. I feel it isn’t right to have changed the whole community this much! Taking away color, brightness, and basic human experience like joy and pain must be very difficult! But that’s not the way the world is supposed to be! On page 94, The Giver states, “Once, back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called color” (Lowry, 94). I recommend this book to anyone wondering about how a brain works, or anyone who thinks a lot. The first time I picked up the book, the cover didn’t appeal to me. Someone had recommended it to me, but based on the cover it didn’t look very interesting.

In a so called Utopian society, young Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memories of the real world. Bit by bit Jonas comes to realize the cost of living in a "perfect" world- the loss of humanity itself.

At his Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas is given the assignment of Receiver, and keeps the memories of his society's past. He has memories no one else has: color, feeling, sunshine... but also pain, sunburn, hunger. Then Jonas is able to see there was more to life than the utopian society life he'd been living in. And lastly, when little Gabriel is welcomed into his family for a while and then may be Released, he dares to do something he'd never thought of before, helped by the Giver. Deprssing book, with a cliffhanger ending. Slightly imaginative, but Lois Lowry could do better.

Characters: Plot: DARK and DEPRESSING ending.

" Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas became the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives." (Novelist Review)