The First Time, When I had heard we had to read a fictional story I was not very pleasant about it. But my first impressions totally changed while reading through the whole book until the end. The protagonist of the story by Lois Lowry is the eleven-years-old Jonas. He lives, at first glance, in a wonderful community protected from pain, illness, unemployment or unhappiness. Jonas is approaching his twelfth birthday, the day on Which he wants to receive the assignment for his future life. He is chosen to become the new Receiver of Memory. His teacher, The Giver, stores all the memories generations before had Given up to live in sameness. During Jonas' training in becoming the new receiver he learns a lot about emotions, animals or different weather conditions, Things That The Other community members had never known before. Jonas began to see his family, Their Lives and the whole community in a different way. He Could not understand why They had Given Up These beautiful things, Things That Make Life Worth! He Could No Longer be the only one who knows the truth. That's why he tries to find a solution how to share his memories with all the other people living next to him. At the end, he left the community and his family to find the place where he could live as to individual! That book is absolutely a great one. While reading the book Through the Eyes of Jonas more and more questions were raised - Somewhere answered, some not. You get a closer look on your own life, your life as to individual, your life in society. How would life be without happiness? Or Without Pain? What is life living in sameness? What is a protective society? Where do we have to draw the line between creating protection and taking away the Things That Make Us Human? And what is it Exactly did make us human? Lowry does not offer us any answer, more effective, she makes us think of our own thesis how questions will be answered. I have really enjoyed reading the "The Giver" and I guess it what the right decision by the teacher "making" us reading it. It was worth the time it Took to read and understand ...
