At the age of twelve, Jonas, a young boy from a seemingly utopian, futuristic world, is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, who alone holds the memories of the true joys and pain of life. When I started reading this amazing book I was astonished. The community in the book was as scary as it was thrilling to read. The people who live there and their rules are very different from ours, and the fact that nearly nobody noticed the difference between a dystopia