Pain doesn't exist. Colours don't exist. Only grey does. Jonas, a twelve year old is destined to become a receiver of memory but the qualities just don't seem right for him.
Being the receiver means seeing things beyond what others can see and worst of all, experiencing the pain…I have always wanted to read this book as the film adaptation came out recently and lots of people in America have been reading it in school.
This is a classic, dystopian Young Adult read. One of the most interesting things about this book is that although it was written in 1993, it has the elements which you would find in a modern YA dystopian book today.
I felt the Divergent series has a lot of similarities with The Giver. For example, in Divergent you would have to choose a faction to be a part of and in the Giver your job is chosen for you.
