The Giver is a dystopian novel that takes place in the future. It doesn’t exactly give an exact location, but I’m pretty sure it is in North America. The setting is a city-like “community” where there is no forest, only buildings from what I can gather. The Giver’s setting is similar to Fort Wayne in the fact that everybody is held up to a certain standard and there is a nursing home-like place and a building kind-of like a newborn ward at the hospital. It is a civilized community with advanced building structure. It is different from Fort Wayne because everybody there is constantly monitored and it is against the laws for people to be impolite or rude  and they have to apologize is they even break a minor rule.

Jonas is a boy who is nearing his Ceremony of Twelve. Jonas is not an awkward person, but he doesn’t feel connected to any of the jobs that the other children in his community are attracted to. His community influences him a lot because of all the rules and the way that they learn. He is anxiously awaiting his Ceremony, but when it’s his turn, he isn’t called. He thinks that maybe he just didn’t do enough and he’s not getting an Assignment, but at the end of the Ceremony, Jonas learns that he has not been Assigned, but instead he has been Selected to be the new Receiver of Memory. He has to train differently from everybody else because he is the only Receiver of Memory-in-training. I can’t really relate to Jonas in any way, because I am not color-blind and I just don’t live that life.