Summer Blog

     I have finished reading The Giver by Lois Lowry. It is a good book about a society in the future that is controlled by the government.  It was a Newberry Medal book and is definitely worth reading.  I enjoyed reading it.
    
     In this book, Jonas is named to be the memory keeper and he holds all the good and bad memories of their society.  Often in his society people are "released" and they supposedly go on to another perfect world called Elsewhere.  They never say what being "released" really means although as the reader, you kind of think it means that the person dies.

     I kept wondering as I read this book what it really meant when a person was released and then Jonas began to wonder the same thing.  It was weird when people in Jonas community disappeared and were released.  Most people were sad not because someone died, but because they thought no one would ever want to leave their perfect community.  This is different from our world.  When someone we knows die, we are sad because we know we will never see them again.

    At the end of the book, Jonas is going to be released, but he is released in a different way.  You will have to read the book to find out what happens.