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Born on March 20, 1937, I Honolulu Hawaii.  She is one of America´s most popular children's book authors. She published her first book at 40 years old and won 2 Newbery Medals.

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The giver is a child's novel that goes around Jonas life, in a futuristic society.
The Giver was published in 1993 by Houghton Mifflin Co., NY NY.
Some awards that this book has received are: A Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Book. Booklist Editors' Choice. A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year.

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The story begins with Jonas, who is  a 11 year old boy who recalls being frightened of a unidentified aircraft, and he feels similar one year later, in the ending of November.
He talks about that time and how he felt. He mentions that the community was asked to go to their nearest building and hide.

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Jonas lives in a place named "the community", which is a society with futuristic ways of living.
We also see that is a society completely controlled by elders.
And supplies are given by cargo plane in this community.

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We get to know Jonas family, which is conformed by his mother, his father, and his 7 year old sister named Lily. They have a ritual called "the telling of feelings", where each member of the family describes an emotion that they felt during the day and discuss about it.

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In the ritual that night, Lily talks about feeling angry because of a child who didn't follow the rules. of the play area. Jonas father talks about a problem at work, as a nurturer. And they discuss ways of fixing the problems and calming their bad emotions.

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In this chapter, we also get to learn about "the ceremony of twelve" which is the ceremony in which every kid who turns 12 will be given a career that suits them and their life as an adult will begin. We also learn that every December, every kid is changed to the next age group.

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This chapter starts with Jonas remembering all of the ceremony he has attended, for example, "the ceremony of one" where newborns are assigned to a family and given a name house, plus the number they were given when they were born, this ceremony happens after spending 1 year at the nurturer center.

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We also learn that no kid has an individual birthday, and kids live situations simultaneously, like when they turn 9, they are given a bicycle.
Although this rules are controlled by the elders, the head is named "the receiver", but no one has ever seen him.

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In this chapter, we learn more about "the ceremony of twelve", and we realize that after this ceremony no one will keep counting how old is he, from the moment of their ceremony life becomes work.
Also in this chapter, Jonas father says he broke a rule, and saw the name of a new born he was worried about, his name is Gabriel. Jonas was surprised by this.

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We learn that another ceremony, is taking stuffed animals away from kids, when they turn 8.
And one of the only rules that can be broken is the one of the bicycles, most kids learn to ride them before.

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While Jonas another parents keep discussing the existing ceremony, and the ones they have attended, Lily enters theorem and asks for her stuffed animal, which is an elephant, but her mother says it will be taken away from her when she is 8, so she most get used to sleeping whiteout it.

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In this chapter Jonas father, brings Gabriel, the kid that he was worried about, to his own home, and Lily says, Gabriel has funny eyes just like Jonas. And later we understand that what Lily meant was that he has eyes in a light color.

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Most of the people that lived in the community, had dark eyes, and just a small group of people had light color eyes, like Jonas and Gabriel.
That's why Lily is thinking that maybe both Gabriel and Jonas had the same birth mom.

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We realize that Lily is being rude, because in the society is consider inapropiate to point out differences in people, she also says she wants to be a birthmother when she is older.

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Jonas thinks about the speakers that gives announce to the society and remembers the time a announce was specifically directed to him.
Referring to a time that instead of eating his apple, he toolkit home to instigate it.

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Jonas took an apple home to investigate it, after seeing that it changed every time he trow it to his friend Asher. Jonas didn't discovered anything, although he investigated it.

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In this chapter we see that kids have to do volunteer hours, since they turn eight. And Jonas looks for his friend Asher, to see where they'll be volunteering.

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Jonas actually enjoy volunteer hours, because there is more freedom, than there it is in other hours.
This time he decides to go to The House of the Old, where he baths an elder women.

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In this chapter they mention a rule that can't be broken is to see someone else naked, but that rule does not apply to the elders and newchildrens.

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In the house of the old, a man Roberto who is also an elder is released, and Larissa the elder who is talking to Jonas, says the release is a beautiful celebration.

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The residentes of the house of the old tossed in Robertos name. None of them actually knows what happens when someone is released, but they like to assume its nice.

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In this chapter we get to know another ritual that Jonas family follow, which is telling their dreams in the morning. Jonas usually don't have any dreams to tell.

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This morning Jonas says that he dreamed that he was in a bathroom at the house of the old, and he tells his friend Fiona, to take off her clothes, so that he could give her a bath. He tells his mom that he felt a wanting.

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Jonas mom tells him that the wanting is a normal feeling at his age, she gives Jonas a pill, to treat that, and tells him to take it every morning, and when he took it, the pleasure of the dream was gone.

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Jonas family discuss some of the gifts that children in the society get each year, at 7 they get a jacket so that they can bottom there selves, at 8 they start volunteering, etc.

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In this chapter we learn that kids must use a coat that closes at the back, before they turn 7, with the propose of learning the importance of interdependance by helping each other buttoning it up.

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In this chapter,Gabe is mention again, and we see that he is unhealthy and too short for his age. That's why normal routine says Gabe should be rebased, but Jonas father gets Gabe 1 more year, but him and his family, have to take care of him.

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All of Jonas family, had to sign a paper, where they promise they won't get emotionally attached to Gabe.
The community is in the ceremony where new borns are assigned to families.

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There is this family that lost their child Caleb, because we drowned in a river, when he was 4 years old, and in this ceremony, this family, just received a new Caleb.

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When Caleb died, there was a Loss ceremony, where everyone said the name of the dead child, over and over again, each time softer, until the kid was forgot.

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In this chapter, the ceremony of twelves finally occur. Jonas and his friends make a line in order of the numbers they were given as babies, before they got names.
The chief elder gives a speech to initiate the ceremony.