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The author of The Giver is Lois Lowry. The novel has 180 pages. The book is about a boy named Jonas who lives in The Community (an isolated compound where everything is the same). There are no differences in color that anyone in The Community can see. There are no situations where it is polite to notice another’s differences. The Community is rigid and change is extremely slow. Mistakes are punished severely. If a member of The Community makes too many mistakes they are released. The members of The Community believe to be released means to be sent Elsewhere, but really people who are released are killed. If twins are born they are released, a