Book Summary #10
Submitted by 86315 on May 9, 2011
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Book Summary #10
Summary of “The Giver”
Meet Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy who lives in a rigidly controlled society sometime in the future. In his "community," there is no suffering, hunger, war, and, as you will soon see, no color, gender, music, or love. Everything is controlled by "the Elders," right down to who you will marry, who you receive as children, and what you will be "assigned" as a job. Individual identity has gone the way of cassette tapes, and everyone is essentially just like everyone else. It seems that no one has really left the area, except to visit other neighboring communities. To get "released" is a big deal. It only happens to sick infants or really old people, or to...
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