Report on the book "The Giver"

The Giver was a really good book, the main character is named Jonas the other characters are Lily, Gabe (Gabriel), mom dad, and the giver. It starts off when Jonas is looking out at a window, he sees a strange plane the people turning the community say for the people to go inside the nearest building and leave their bikes were they are. It turned out that the flyer of the plane had gotten lost and stumbled into their community. I should probably mention that in this book Jonas isn’t eleven years old they say that he is an eleven his sister lily is a seven becoming an eight next year. Anyways in the book Jonas is happy but worried about becoming a twelve that is the year you practically become an adult and get your career chosen for you (if you ask me ii don’t want my career picked for me). Anyways Jonas starts to notice stuff changing for like a second like an apple, books, and his friends Fiona’s hair. His father is a nurturer he works at the nurturing center (which is basically a hospital so he’s technically a doctor) He is assigned to take care of a child that isn’t devolving fast enough, so he decides to ask his boss if he can take the little child home instead of keeping it with the night crew. The night crew is not that good with children there mostly trainees and are not very experienced. He snoops around and finds out that the child’s name is Gabriel so he decides to call him “Gabe” for short. When he wakes up they always tell each other their dreams when it usually gets to Jonas’s turn he usually has had no dreams but this time he said in his dream he had stirrings. His mother called a person to get him special pills to stop these “stirrings”. Finally the ceremony for sevens eights and nines comes this is the part of the story where Lilly becomes an eight and nothing really changes. When the ceremony is over they will all out outside and have their evening meal (which is probably lunch in a different form of saying it). Lily is happy she is now a number higher. The next day it is the ceremony for tens elevens and twelve’s. They had the children sit in order with what number they were Jonas’s number was in the teens. Time passed as he was eager and a little afraid for the chief elder to get to him. When the chief elder finally got the person before Jonas he was ready to be given his career job. But something had happened the chief elder had skipped Jonas the crowd was suspicious and worried. After the twelve’s were done she announced the Jonas should be the new “Receiver of Memory” Jonas was shocked then he noticed the old receiver of memory watching him from the audience. Days passed and he had gotten his rules one of the rules was that he could lie and he could not talk about his training to anyone. When he firsts meets the Giver he is very surprised that he looks old but is probably about 50 or 60. They start there training with the giver giving him memories of war, sunburns, snow, love sunlight, and color. The first color he recognizes is red. Soon a year passes and Jonas and the giver have become very good friends the ceremony for the new twelve’s are coming up. And Jonas dads says he will release Gabriel in the morning (release means to kill them with a needle put in a vain that is big enough). The giver and Jonas make a pan for him to escape, its days away before their plan and he sneaks out with Gabriel very sad that he had done this without saying goodbye to the giver. Then he runs out of food and starts catching fish with a homemade net. After a while they get snow he gives almost all of his memories away to Gabriel to keep him alive. At the end of the book they finally find a new town where they will live.

I really liked this book it was interesting how a twelve year old can keep a baby alive in the snow with his memories.