Kira also learns more about the truth of her village and the terrible secrets that it holds. She begins to learn the art of dyeing threads different colors except for blue, which nobody in her community knows how to make except Annabella, Kira's mentor. Kira's gift for embroidery convinces the Council to keep her around to mend and update a beautiful robe, which shows the society's history. Kira's mother did embroidery for the Council and taught Kira some of her talents. Since she is an orphan, Kira needs a reason for the Council of Edifice to keep her in the village, rather than to send her to the Field, which is certain death at the hands of the Beasts. Kira's mother had died recently from a mysterious illness.

Kira's father was thought to have been taken by the Beasts while he was on a hunt before she was born. The central character, Kira, who has a deformed leg, is orphaned and must learn to survive in a society that normally leaves the weak or disabled exposed to die in the fields. Gathering Blue is a 2000 children's dystopian novella that is set in the same future time period and displays some of the same themes as the Giver. The novel forms a loose quartet with three other books set in the same future era: Gathering Blue (2001), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012). In Australia, Canada, and the United States, it is a part of many middle schools' reading lists, but it also appeared in many challenging book lists, such as the American Library Association's list of most challenged books of the 1990s.

The Giver won the 1999 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 10 million copies. Sameness emphasizes the utopian qualities of the Community. The Community lacks any color perception, climate variation, or terrain depth variation (such as hills and valleys) all terrain is completely flat. Jonas learns the truth about his utopian society and struggles with its weight. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, who stores all of the past memories of the time before Sameness, in case the memories that the others lack are ever needed to aid the community leaders, or Elders, in their decisions. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting itself to 'Sameness,' a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. The novel follows a boy, Jonas, in his twelfth and thirteenth years. The Giver is a 1993 American children's novel, generally for young adults or older, which is set in a society that is at first presented as a utopian society but gradually appears more and more dystopian.

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