I have selected the book: The Giver, by Lois Lowry. The book is about a boy named Jonas who is just like everybody else. Or so he thinks. Jonas unlike everyone else, has lighter eyes, and is more intelligent and athletic. In this paper I will discuss the properties of this book. The book is about a perfect society which is completely controlled by four to five people, if you count the receiver of memory. Jonas was chosen to the receiver of memory, not assigned to his job like the rest of his peers. All his peers and everybody else in the community are assigned to their jobs. This is because their jobs aren’t as important as the receiver of memory. When Jonas was skipped over in the ceremony of twelve he and everyone else in the community had
