The Giver By Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is a book about a dystopian community that on the surface appears to hold the secret to happiness. However, the main character Jonas soon discovers this secret, and it is terrifying. All the members of the community are kept in complete ignorance about the real meaning of true life, beauty, humanity, and free will. Through isolation from pain and suffering, the members are turned into a type of robot, who fail to think for themselves or see beyond their limited roles within the community. When Jonas is assigned the important job of being the “Receiver” of memories of the past, he learns that life is extremely complex. It is scary and beautiful, and more precious than the rest of the community cares to understand. The Giver teaches the lesson that life is miraculous and the memories of it are a source of wisdom. We learn from our mistakes and the memories of them should not be suppressed in order to warn against the possibility of bad things happening.
He sees the color of the ball, the color of fruit, and the color of flowers, and realizes something wonderful has happened to him. Jonas does not understand what this means and questions the Giver. The Giver reveals to him the ways of the Elders, how they have manipulated the members of the community into seeing and remembering only what they choose for them to remember. The Elders believe that seeing the real world in all its glory is too much for them to handle. Jonas, on the other hand, loves the fact there is beauty in the world and feels the Elders are unjust in their withholding this beauty just for the sake of