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Book Reports On The Giver By Lois Lowry

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The Giver is a 1993 American young adult novel by Lois Lowry. The novel follows a twelve year old boy named Jonas. He was selected to inherit the position of Receiver of memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before sameness. Jonas struggles with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him. He lives in a community isolated from all except a few similar towns, where everyone from small infants to the Chief Elder has an assigned role. He seeks Reassurance from his father, a Nurturer. Jonas parents are not related to him. His mother, an official in the Department of Justice. His close friends were Asher and Fiona. Jonas has never seen snow, or a sled. Jonas’s father was a murder after injecting a baby with poison before putting the baby in a trash chute. …show more content…

His friend Fiona is adapted to be a love interest for Jonas and assists him with his and Gabe’s escape. The main characters in “The Giver” are Larissa an elderly woman who lives in the house of the old. Jonas bathes her when he volunteers at the house of the old. The Chief Elder is the leader of the community who is newly elected every ten

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