The+Giver,+Lois+Lower+(Extra+Credit)



__   Plot Synopsis: __        The Book __The Stranger__ starts out with an 11 year old boy named Jonas who is about to turn 12. He lives in a very different world than ours. In his world every thing is in black and white there is no color, no music, and no personalities. It is supposedly a perfect world and no one in the world has to make tough decisions by them self’s.

When the children turn 12 they are given a piece of paper with instructions on it telling them were to go to be tutored for their "job". Before all of this though Jonas and his friend were playing catch with an apple and Jonas had noticed that the apple had changed in a way he couldn’t describe. Jonas took the apple home to inspect it further and found nothing . The ceremony for the jobs was in December the children waited all day to her what they were. When it was Jonas's turn the chief elder skipped over him going from 18 to 20, he started to become frightened and wondered why he wasn’t given a job, thinking that he had done something wrong. At the end of the Ceremony, the Chief Elder apologizes for causing the audience concern and causing Jonas anguish. She tells him that he has been selected for a very special position, that of Receiver of Memory. The community only has on receiver of memory at a time and the current Receiver is getting old and needs to train a new Receiver of memory. The Receiver is a hard job the Receiver needs to possess intelligence, integrity, and courage, as well as the ability to acquire wisdom.

Jonas starts to meet with the Receiver and as the days go on Jonas learns more and more from the giver, as the current Receiver calls himself. What happens is the Giver gives Jonas the memories little by little and the Giver starts to forget the memories himself. Jonas starts to learn the pain, the fun, the hardships, and the reality of normal life. Will Jonas be able to cope with the truth, these new memories given to him, and the changes in his life?

__ Book Criticism: __

   The Book __The Giver__ is a great book I liked it a lot. I liked this book so much because it is about something so hard to believe that it is believeable. You feel the pain and the joy for Jonas as he goes through this great change in his life. This book is also is a great book because the ending is what you would least expect. __ Why Outstanding?:  __ This book is outstanding because it is so original and you can see that the author put a lot of time into this book. It is also an outstanding book because of the great descriptions in the book; the memories that the Giver gives Jonas are very realistic and it showed what it was like to be their, to experience them, even if you have never experienced anything like it before. The book is also great because you can never see what is about to happen next, not only because there are many twists in the book but because this world that the author creates is so original and you never know what to expect from it.

__Why Recomend:__  I would recommend this book to people who like to read stories that you don't know what is coming next in the book. This book had a great theme in the book and it teaches you that some things are better left undisturbed. I think that this is a good book for people who like surprises.

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