The Giver by Lois Lowery #3

            The book I recently finished with my book club was The Giver by Lois Lowery. In my last blog post I predicted that Gabe would be able to see beyond. I was right Jonas transmits memories to Gabe when he is having trouble sleeping. Since my last post a lot has happened. Jonas learned that Release from the community is actually death.  He also made a plan with the Giver to give the community emotions and colors. Now I will tell you a little more about their plan.

            If the Receiver of Memories dies or leaves they community then the memories they have will be sent out into the community.  The Giver knows this because when the past Receiver was released from the Community all of the memories she had were sent out into the Community. They decide that Jonas will travel by night out of the Community and once he is far enough away from the Community the memoires will start to come back. The Giver will be there to help the people through the process of learning with the memories. They decided to do this because they want the people the community to experience the same things that was experienced before Sameness.

            Overall I really love this book and how it addresses the fact that we cant all be the same. If everybody is the same than life gets boring. Also people cant make all of are decisions for us we need to be able to express are feelings and emotions through choices we make. We need to be able to express ourselves in life.