I am reading The Giver by Lois Lowry about a 12 year old boy named Jonas. He lives with his parents and sister Lily in a society that has no pain or war but is controlled by the government. Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory because he can see colors and no one else can do this.
I would not want to be Jonas! His job is to keep all the bad memories so they won't be forgotten. He has to feel the pain of these bad things and nobody else can feel this. But, he does have good memories that make him feel awesome and no one else in his society feels this way either. One example is when he feels the memory of sledding down a hill on a sunny day. I have good memories of sledding too so I could understand his feelings. I have done it before too and remember the great feeling of crusing down a hill in the snow.
The sled is also a good thing for Jonas at the end of the book. When he tries to save his friend and escape, he leaves his society on a sled and it looks like he is able to get to a normal life.
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