First Assignment!!!!!

About the Author

I am in the middle of a book called the Giver by Lois Lowry. She has written

many other books though; 34 other books to be exact. She won a Newbery Medea. She was born in Oahu, Hawaii, United States on M

arch 20 1937.

Plot of my Book

My book is about a Utopian society, in which everyone's birthday on the same day, people have their jobs assigned to them based on what kind of things they like to do. If you do anything bad or against the rules three times you are taken out of the society. The main character, Jonas, gets the job of the giver. The giver is in charge of all the memories in this Utopia. He has to go through a long process of memories being transfered into his mind by the current giver. This process is also very painful depending on the memory. He has to deal with both sad and painful memories, to happy and wonderful ones.

Setting of the Book

I would say the book takes place in present time. I say this because nobody uses very old words from th 50's and no one uses odd words like groovy from the 70's so I think this book takes place in modern day. I think the place is the United States because everyone spoke English but didn't use odd British words. The atmosphere so far in the story is happy and normal.

Character Description

I would say the main character is for the most part happy and calm. I would say this because he doesn't seem like he's angry or sad and he isn't hyper or depressed so that's why I would why I would think he's happy and calm.

Review For the Giver

My book so far is semi-enjoyable; it's definitely not my favorite book but it is not my least favorite either. I wouldn't say the book is terrible but I wouldn't call it good. I dislike how slowly the plot moves and I like the fact that it's an easy read. I think this book is very mediocre and I probably wouldn't recommend it to a friend.