Can anyone give me a short plot summary of The Giver?

Question

Can anyone give me a short plot summary of the book The Giver by Lois Lowry?

i NEED a really good TWO or THREE paragraphs

Answer 1

One of the best books ever written

Jonas lives in an utopia, where there is no war, pain, suffering, poverty, illness/disease, or crime. Husbands and wives are matched up according to combability of personality. Children are adopted from the town's birthmother. Transportation is limited to bikes, and houses are called dwellings. Everyone in the town cannot see color. Sounds like a perfect life.

On Jonas's 12th birthday, he is assigned a job which he will work for the rest of his life. He is given the most highest job in the town--the Giver. The Giver is the one person in town who takes on the burden of war, pain, illness, disease, loss, grief, violence, and crime--through memories. Jonas can hold the memories and pass them onto others. Soon Jonas begins to see color as well. He becomes an apprentice to the town's current Giver....and what he is exposed to changes his life forever. He begins to notice that he is more emotionally mature than his family, because of what the Giver exposed him to. Because of this, Jonas makes a daring escape from the utopia.

hope this helps

Answer 2

give short plot summary giver

Answer 3

haha i read this in 7th grade, that was years ago, but i can try

in these people town/ world/ whatever, they get picked their jobs, but the little boy, dont know his name, was picked the giver ( there jobs are picked at age 12 ) so the old giver had to teach him the rules and what not of how to be one.
dont know anything else but at the end how his dad job he would like kill babys or people, idk by putting them to sleep

Answer 4

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/giver/

Basically everything you need to know about the book is here.