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“One of my favorite children's novels, The Giver twists our definition of utopia and is creative and vibrantly detailed. Jonas is a twelve-year-old boy in a very utopian society. Everyone gets the same things as everyone else, and there is no overwelming joy, but also no pain. One lives for the community, and takes what the community offers them in return. But through his unique job assignment as Receiver, Jonas realizes there are better ways to live than that of what they have been. He realizes the truth of pain, war, and death, but also of love, passion, and joy. Jonas is given a decision: to leave the society as it is, or to try to end the system the people have, which could end up destroying them all. The Giver is very thought-provoking, and left me pondering long after it was finished.”