Jonas is stunned when his turn is passed by, and he is increasingly conspicuous and agonized until he is alone. All of the Community is present, and the Chief Elder presides. The day finally arrives, and Jonas is assembled with his classmates in order of birth. He is told that the Elders, who assign the children their careers, are always right. He seeks reassurance from his father, a Nurturer (who cares for the new babies, who are genetically engineered thus, Jonas's parents are not biologically related to him), and his mother, an official in the Department of Justice. With the annual Ceremony of Twelve upcoming, he is nervous, for there he will be assigned his life's work. Jonas, a 12-year-old boy, lives in a Community isolated from all except a few similar towns, where everyone from small infants to the Chief Elder has an assigned role based on the tastes and qualities on the selected member. The novel forms a loose quartet with three other books set in the same future era, known as The Giver Quartet: Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012). In 2014, a film adaptation was released, starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep and Brenton Thwaites. designated it the fourth-best children's novel of all time. In Australia, Canada, and the United States, it is on many middle school reading lists, but it is also frequently challenged and it ranked number 11 on the American Library Association list of the most challenged books of the 1990s. The Giver won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide as of 2018. The Community lacks any color, memory, climate, or terrain, all in an effort to preserve structure, order, and a true sense of equality beyond personal individuality. Jonas struggles with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him: whether they are inherently good, evil, or in between, and whether it is even possible to have one without the other. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, as there may be times where one must draw upon the wisdom gained from history to aid the community's decision making. The society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. The novel follows a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. It is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry.
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