I read this book a long time ago in school and I decided to reread it to see if I still liked it like I did all those years ago and I did it was very well written. I liked the characters they were well written I really liked the Giver and Jonas they were so very well developed I liked how Jonas changed the more the learned or was showed by the Giver. I liked the story it was well written and well deserving of all of its awards the world that this book is set in is very odd I would never want to live in that kind of world and more he learned the more Jonas wanted to get out and wanted nothing to do with that world anymore the story was so good I loved it. So overall I loved this book and would read it again and I like that it is required reading in school.