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===The Giver By: Lois Lowry ===

**__ Synopsis: __** "The Giver" was a story about a young 11/12 year old boy by the name of Jonas. Jonas lives in a community where everything is perfect. There is no pain, grief, or love. The Community Elders revolve around Sameness for the community, to avoid so called "chaos" of which they know.There are rules for everything, rules for apologizing, rudness, interuptions, and even how many children families are able to have. Each family unit contains one boy and one girl child. No more and no less. People do not choose who thier spouse is and they don't have their own children. Certain people are chosen for jobs, like a birthmother. Birthmothers are the people who have the children for you. In order to have a spouse or children you must apply for one. Same with "release". "Release" is mainly for the Old and for people who don't want to be part of the communiy anymore. The catch is that the people think that being "released" means going Elsewhere. But truthfully, it's death.

Jonas is anxious to become a 12 in December. Being a 12 means that children are now considered adults and are to start training for their career. Every person in the community turns a certain age all on the same day. Jonas's little sister Lily is to turn a 7 when December comes. They stop celebrating Ceremony's of age once a person turns 12. At the Ceremony of 12's Jonas and all his other friends are assigned a certain job by the community elders. Some jobs are more important than others in the community. People are specifically chosen for certain careers because then, usually the Community Elders are right, they have the correct job that they enjoy and can do best for the community as a whole. For example, Jonas's father is a Nurturer at the Nurturing Center for small infants and his mother works for the department of justice, enforcing the rules on the community. Jonas, is assinged to be the new Reciever. The most secret, important, mysterious, and rare job anyone could be assigned.

Jonas is to be trained by a wise old man which he tells Jonas to call him by the name of Giver. The Giver. The Giver holds true memories of the "past", memories of true pain and pleasures of life. It is a hard journey for Jonas. He recieves all those memories from The Giver. Jonas believes his community should be the way the world "used to be". A world with color, love, snow, pain, and all other sorts of pleasant and even unpleasant things. The people of the community did not see color. Jonas and The Giver are the only ones who can in the entire society. The Giver and jonas discover a plan. A plan to change thier world as they know it now. Will Jonas achieve this dangerous task or will he fail and not know what is to come of his perfect little community? To learn more about The Giver [|click here.]  Lois Lowry is the middle child of her family. She has an older sister, Helen and a younger brother, Jon. Helen and their mother got along very well. They spent time together being family oriented and such. Jon and their father worked on electric trains and when Jon got older, they took car rides together. Lois was left alone, and that's exactly how she wanted it to be. She was able to expand her imagination and read her books. Lois grew up in Maine with her children. She started to write her books after she got her degree for professional writing in the University of Southern Maine. To read more about Louis Lowry [|click here] .
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__** Additional Books By Louis Lowry: **__

Louis Lowry wrote many other books such as Gossamer, Number the Stars, and A Summer to Die. If you really liked "The Giver" i recommend reading [|The Gathering Blue] . Another futuristic story about a girl named Kira in a community almost like Jonas's in "The Giver".

One thing that worked extremely well in "The Giver" was the suspense throughout the book. It's such a page-turner. After every chapter there is something that is left unsaid and it makes a person want to keep reading to find out what happens next. Another thing is all the detail put forth withing everything. There's so much detail that it almost feels like the reader can experience everything that is going on. All the pain, love, joy, grief, and fear, are explained with so much passion that a reader could forget they're actually reading, it's almost as if it's a movie playing in their head.
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For example, in one moment of the book The Giver gives Jonas a memory about war. Jonas sees a young boy spraweld on the ground begging for water. "One of Jonas's arms was immobilized with pain, and he could see through his own torn sleeve something that looked like ragged flesh and splintery bone" (Lowry, 119).

Even while there were great things that were going on throughout the book there was one simple problem. It was hard to relate to the book. As far as the community goes. With all their rules and ways of living, it was just really strange sometimes. A person has got to have a really open mind when they read "the Giver". To imagine what it's like not to see color or not to feel pain is really hard for some people. As long as a person has a big imagination this book would be a great one to read.
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I think "The Giver" was placed on the __"Outstanding Books for the College Bound"__ list because it was very intense and suspensful. "The Giver" was a book made for people who want a challenging read and for people who like to read about futuristic things almost. It's an interesting perspective on life and that's what made "The Giver" be on the list. I would **definately** recommend this book to someone else. Great page-turner and imagination-builder.
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"The Giver" really was an //outstanding// book. The quality of the details and the emotional parts that just take over a person's imagination makes this book outstanding. A great read for all ages and also a great leap into a pool full of different ways of life that some people just need to notice. No one know's what they've got until it's gone and "The Giver" shows people this lesson by taking away things that normal people wouldn't bear to live without.


 * __Additional Review on The Giver by another Wiki Member:__ Mizzi- The Giver**.