The Giver

This trimester i am reading The Giver by Lois Lowry. Lois Lowry had wrote some of the most famous book out there for example Number the Stars in 1990 l. The Giver and Number the Stars both won the Newbery Medal in 1990 and 1994. Lois Lowry is best known as a children's writer. She wrote over 30 children's book now back to the book The Giver is a scientific fiction book or a young adult fiction book.

Jonas is a 12 year old boy who lives in a small community that isolate itself from other places. The residents signed rolls by their elders base on their personal strength. Mainly the residents are assigned as doctors or even a cook. In his community it is rare to see people differently from each other. Everyone is supposedly the same. Jonas lives with his mom and dad and sisters. His mom works for the government and known as an official in the Department of Justices or a lawyer. When that day came for him to get signed to a job he was scare. Normally they would signed jobs with the ages of the students. As they announce students jobs one by one Jonas was last to be announced. As he looked scare he now was finally announce but not like any other jobs he was assigned as the next Giver or Receiver of Memory. This was rare for his community. It wasn't something normal. Going toward on the stories The Giver hold all memories of all the community. He knows all about the history and only have access to it. The receiver have the memory of all the residents and nows its histories. The former Giver was getting old and as he ages someone had to replace him and here is where Jonas comes in. He was the next Giver. As they start transferring the memories Jonas had to face the reality of the community and to government. He now knows all that no one else in the community does. Jonas see and hear all that no one else knows. Jonas needed to something about it and had to face the challenges of facing the government and helping out the other citizen.

I really do recommend this book if you're a scientific fiction lover because it brings you into a whole new world and knowing how detail it is  and with a lot of drama. It brings you this sort of curiosity and feels like you're in the book. I absolutely love this book because it brings me into the book and gives me this really mysterious vibe to it. It's a really good book and I really do recommend you to read it.

Book Review by Gao Nou V.