The Giver

Reviewed by: Matt
Lois Lowry
Houghton Miffin
179 pages

The Giver is about a eleven year old boy who lives in a futuristic place where there is no war, pain, fear, or hatred. Everyone looks the same and acts the same. At age 12 children are assigned jobs. Their spouses are chosen and then each couple gets assigned 2 children. Everything is organized and planned for everyone. There is one job called receiver and that job is to remember everything from the past. Jonah is elected to have this job and he develops a friendship with the past receiver who has to pass the memories on to him. The previous receiver calls himself the giver and the giver and Jonah want to release all the memories so people can live normal and experience joy and pain.

I think people that people would like this book would be people that like books like the Hunger Games. Both of these books are set in the future and they both show different ways our world could look in the future. In both of the books the citizens don't really have too many choices to do what they want.