A Brief discription of the Giver:

By: Maxx Gillhamer!

Jonas lives in a world were every aspect in life is already desided for him. What he is gonna be when he grows up, who he will marry, and how many kids they will assign him. These dicission makers are called the Committee of Elders. These Elders all live in a place called the House of the Old. When Jonas and the other "Elevens" become "Twelves" in December, they are then presented their life job. Jonas is assigned the most important job or assignment of them all. He is assigned the "Reciever of Memories". This is were the one person in the community is incharge or all of the memories of the past. he knows things that no one in the community has acces to, or remembers. With this ability also comes all of the burden and pain of what these memoring bring.

Jonas starts his training with the reciever, whom he calles the Giver. At first the Giver gives Jonas happy memories that Jonas has never know before. But then, these momories soon become unbearable. So together Jonas and the Giver come up with a plan to change the whole community that their forfathers have tried so hard to protect. He decides to flee to the Elsewhere were Jonas has only heard of. If Jonas leaves, then all of the memories obtained by the Giver will leave Jonas and make their way back to the community were all of the residence will soon find out what they have been missing their whole lives. After a long journey to the uncertain, Jonas sees salvation in the distance and is confident that he has reached his destination.

if i had to ask the Author questions about this book, it would have to be how he even started to think of the story line, how the final product impacted him, and if there is any kind of hidden meaning to life found in this book.