The giver
By Loris Lowry
220 pages
Science fiction


During the last weeks in class we have been reading the giver, it is about a whole community, children, adults etc. except there are some things that just seem weird. For example the fact that every person celebrates their birthday on the same day however it is only counted until one reaches the age of 12. One may not choose his/her assignment they will do, instead the head counclers will pick after observing each individual during their years. Jonas is the main character, and in the last chapter we read these are some of the thing that happened:

• The big ceremony is coming up
• Jonas is nervous because he is about to get his assignment
• The first day of the ceremony all the new children get their families assigned and their new name
• Lili, Jonas's sister becomes an eight and receives a jacket with pockets to show 8's are independent enough to keep track of their own things
• The second day, time has come for the new 12's to get their assignment 
• The Chief skipped Jonas, he gets very nervous however the chief continues
• At the very end the chief excuses herself, and says she didn't forget about Jonas, but he won't be getting an assignment, he has been selected
• Being selected is meant to be very important (from the Chiefs perspective)
• Jonas doesn't know what that means but tries to act cool

My predictions are that maybe Jonas will be the one that either tries to save Eutopia or maybe the one that will change it into the bad Distopia. I find it also very interesting that the previous receiver also had light eyes like Johan and little Gabe. I am excited to read on and see what happens next.