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The Giver
 

The Giver is a story about a society in which everyone is equal to each other. The Giver was originally a book and later a movie.
 

The people in this community have no feelings so not any one person can feel what the other person doesn’t, which in theory makes them all equal. By having no memories of love or feeling love, there is no heartbreak when two people like the same person and they can only like one person back. According to this society, then, it would be unfair to love someone when another person does too.  Also because everyone in this community has all the same things, they are equal. By having the same things, people won’t be envious about something that another person has that they don’t have. As my teacher says, this would be a good way to keep away thieves. However, if you do not have feelings, that would only make you a robot.

The main characters in this story are Jonas, his brother Gabriel, and The Giver. The Giver is a person who was the past Receiver of Memory. The Receiver’s job is to receive all the passed memories. The people in the community feel that memories are pointless, so only one person like Jonas receives them all from The Giver.
 

Except for The Receiver and The Giver, no one has memories about the past. No one else can see colors as well. At first, in the movie version, the film is all in black and white. My teacher says that there was a procedure so the scientists made them all colour blind so they could be more equal. Jonas at the age of twelve receives his job as the Receiver of Memory (all of the children receive their jobs from the leaders of their community at the age twelve). In the end, Jonas tries to fix the fact that people in his community, except for him and The Giver, don't experience memories. To fix this, The Giver explains to Jonas to pass the wall of memories so that the people will have their memories back.

I have read the book and watched the movie and I highly recommend both because it shows you a new type of society, its rules, and how the future might look. For example other books about the future don’t often talk about the rules of future societies. Also, this book has a saying that “everyone is equal” and today people are not equal. So if you want to know more about a future society with rules about equality, this is going to be the right book.

The author doesn’t provide a clear ending, which allows the readers to imagine their own ending. I think the ending would be happy because everyone would receive his or her memories and emotions back.