The Giver1

             In this book, the Giver, an old man gives all the memories of
             a world such as ours to a boy named Jonah. In this world there is no
             color, love, or twins, and the babies and children are bred by
             special people who have the job of birthmother. They then are adopted
             away. Everybody in the town has a special but awkward job. The giver
             tells Jonah of a place such as our normal world.
             After Jonah learns of the world before, he becomes anxious to
             escape and discover if their is a color outside world in which there
             is love, and normal families. The more visions that Jonah receives,
             the more painful they become. He also begins to become more and more
             anxious about discovering what is beyond his dull and controlled
             town. He also soon begins to have strange dreams of bathing one of
             his "girl" friends naked, in a bathtub. His parents then tell them to
             take certain pills to prevent these dreams, he does not because of
             his anxiety to find out what else there is in the world.
             The giver later tells Jonah how Jonah's and his own dinner,
             breakfast, and everything else that they do is monitored and
             controlled. The Giver later gives Jonah his consent to escape their
             town to go search for a normal and happier wolrd. Jonah kidnaps his
             baby brother who's twin gets killed by Jonah's dad. Him and the baby
             escape out the town into a normal world at the end of the book. The
             rest of the book, is about the visions that Jonah has, and explains
             how the "Giver," is the keeper of memories from the village from
             The ending of the book is somewhat uncertain, since you dont
             know if Jonah makes it out of a desert into a new, better world, or
             if the whole thing is a mirage, to Jonah.
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