The Giver

The Giver
Lois Lowry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

179 Pages

 

This week, I am currently reading the book The Giver . It is a book that our whole grade is reading together but I am trying to finish the book before others. It is a very enjoyable book that was not very interesting in the beginning but as I kept reading, it became very fascinating. The book is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas, living in a different environment and community than ours. In their community, people can only see in black and white, they say "released" to kill someone by law and it is rare to see people with light colored, or "pale" eyes. In this community, when you become a year older, you receive a gift from the community. Everyone has the same birthday which is December first. When you turn one, you receive a family. When you are nine you receive a bycicle and so on. As you tun twelve, you receive an assigned job. Until this twelveth birthday, he has no idea what kind of job he will receive. But then, he does not receive a job, he gets selected as the Reciever of Memory which is the most important elder job in the community. A word I came across while reading that I did not know the meaning of was the word dismayed. "But he was a litle dismayed that his schedule left no time, apparently, for recreation." Dismayed means to be alarmed or a sudden complete loss of courage. This word and sentence was on page 68th page of The Giver. (Lowry 68)

 

 

-sooyoungbyun7a