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As Jonas begins his work as the Receiver of Memories, he gains wisdom and through that wisdom, learns that in protecting the Community from the memories, their lives have lacked feeling and understanding.
The Giver tells the story of a young boy named Jonas living in a highly controlled community some time in the future. The novel fits into a larger genre of cautionary tales called "dystopian literature." A utopia is a society in which everything is perfect, so a dystopia is the opposite: everything has gone wrong.
