The Giver Book Review

The Giver by Lois Lowery mesmerized me by telling a world empty of decisions and choice. Citizens in this community not only lack freedom but the knowledge that freedom exists giving the government total control of the citizens bodies and more importantly their minds. But what happens when someone gains memories of both the good and bad of freedom? Will he choose a land of freedom but full pain or one full of painless emptiness.
Everything is decided for you, and you don't realize that. Pain pills are given if you fall off your bicycle, which is given when you become a nine. When you start to feel strong emotions, pills are given for that too. Everyone is made the same. All is born near the same time, all is killed at the same age. Yet no one realizes that the old is killed and that they will share the same fate. No one but the Giver and Jonas realize truth and have memories of freedom and the price of freedom. The Giver was given these memories from the one before him, and he was given the memories from the the one before him. Jonas is the next in line. The giver gives each valuable memory, one by one. He puts his hands on Jonas's back. Jonas seems to have magically departed to a new place, the Giver's memory. Jonas soon learns true happiness, and true pain. He learns that the old are really being murdered, he learns to stop taking the pills that suppress his emotion. But how far will Jonas go for freedom? Is freedom worth the thing the Giver called "war". Will he want to escape and even if he wanted to, how?
The Giver has captured an epic choice: a free but painful society vs a controlled, choice less but painless world. Read this incredible book.