![]() ![]() The Giver won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide as of 2014. ![]() The Community lacks any color, memory, climate, or terrain, all in an effort to preserve structure, order, and a true sense of equality beyond personal individuality. Jonas struggles with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him: whether they are inherently good, evil, or in between, and whether it is even possible to have one without the other. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, as there may be times where one must draw upon the wisdom gained from history to aid the community's decision making. ![]() The society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. The novel follows a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. It is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. ![]() The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. ![]()
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