Lois Lowry's The Giver

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a book that has made an impression on me. The Giver is a a story of a boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect city. In this city all forms of emotion, such as happiness, fear, pain, love and sadness, are removed. The emotions are all stored inside one person called the "Receiver of Memory" who holds memories of the past. The memories are kept away and brought out when decisions are needed to be made to prevent making similar mistakes. In this world there is no color and they kill off defective people. The book made an impression on me because it shows that you cannot have a perfect world. Our flaws are what help make us who we are.

The City of Ember Book Summary

The City of Ember, a science fiction novel by Jeanne DuPrau, takes place in an underground city that was made to keep the human race alive after the war/plague. The underground city, Ember, is falling apart and running out supplies such as food, clothes, soap and school items. It is a dark, damp, mold filled, dying city. The people in the city have become less aware of what humans used to know and do not know how to fix broken things and only know how to replace them. This is why, when supplies start to run out, they are forced to leave the city because they do not know how to survive. In the book, the main character, a 12 year old girl named Lina, finds a piece of paper with instructions. The instructions explain how to leave Ember once Earth becomes safe to live on again. While on her journey, Lina gets help from a boy named Doon.  In the end, the people of Ember get to the world above, but have no idea how to survive. The book seems to be addressing that today we do not make our own things anymore and we are materialistic consumers.

A Book Summary: The Invention of Hugo Cabret by Brian Selznick

The story takes place in a train station in Paris.

Hugo is twelve-year-old  boy who lives inside the train station. Hugo's father, a watch-maker, finds an automaton in a museum, and in his free time, he tries to fix it. An automaton is a complex, gear-driven machine that does a task.Unfortunately, the museum burns down and the father dies. Hugo goes to the burned museum, finds the automaton and tries to fix it with found and stolen materials.

Isabelle is a girl who helps Hugo go on his adventures.

Papa Georges is an older man who works in a toy booth in the train station and is Isabelle's godfather.

  The story ends with Hugo living with Papa Georges and Isabelle. he goes to school and makes his own automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret is over 500 pages but more than half of them are very detailed and descriptive pencil drawings.