Reflection On The Giver By Lois Lowry

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a fiction story about a boy named Jonas who is given quite an interesting job. He is assigned to be a receiver of memory. He lives in a community that treats its people unfairly because they have no decisions, no feelings, and no color. I disagree with Jonas’s community because you have no options, no emotions, and there are no colors. Readers need to understand this because they will have a clearer opinion of exactly why Jonas decided to leave the community. In the community you have no choices. It says in the book itself that you have one stuffed animal as a child, one coat, one bike, and when you are twelve, you are assigned a job. It also says that you are married to someone that you most likely do not