The Giver

The Giver is a 1993 American children's novel by Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth and thirteenth years of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness," a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, in case they are ever needed to aid in decisions that others lack the experience to make. Jonas learns the truth about his dystopian society and struggles with its weight.The Giver won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 10 million copies.^[1] In Australia, Canada, and the United States, it is a part of many middle school reading lists, but it is also on many challenged book lists and appeared on the American Library Association's list of most challenged books of the 1990s.^{[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Giver)}

^{This is a book that i read in high school. I decided to put it up because it makes me think about how being able to be your own person and be different from everyone else is so important and that everyone being the same doesn't make life better. They are also came out with a movie for it this year.}