The Giver

Can you imagine a world where everything is perfect and everyone is the same? That is what Jonas's world is like, but soon after he turns twelve, he realizes a world of perfection and similarity is not entirely good. Lois Lowry's The Giver interested me with its truthful story of how utopia's are not perfect.

In Jonas's community, everyone gets assigned a role at the age of twelve. Nobody gets to choose how they spend the rest of their lives. All of the members of the community are fine with their role including Jonas. Jonas got assigned to reciece special training from the Giver. During his special training, Jonas discovers feelings, colors, and pain, all of which he has never experienced before and noone in his community except him and the Giver can experience. He enjoyed having feelings like love, and see colors like red. The pain that he experienced like war was good to have. Pain made him stronger. Jonas soon finds that the community that he once thought was perfect was in fact not perfect at all. The Giver and Jonas try to find a way that their entire community could have all of the feelings, colors, and pain that they have to make their community better.