It’s The Giver’s job to transfer the memories to Jonas, the same way he had memories transferred to him. The transfer is abrupt and jarring, almost violent. In the book it’s so gentle and ...

That scared off some potential financial backers. “The Giver” tells the story of Jonas, who’s tasked with inheriting all the memories of the past before his seemingly-utopian society came to be.

The book begins in the same time period as The Giver, and it follows Claire, who is Birthmother of Gabriel (the baby that Jonas saves). Something goes wrong with Gabriel’s birth, and she gets ...

Red Mask Teens will present “The Giver,” adapted by Eric Coble from the Newbery Award-winning book by Lois Lowry June 13-15 at the Kathryn Randolph Theater in Danville. The play follows the key ...

Left off the poster, but certainly not off our radar, is Shameless's Cameron Monaghan, who plays Jonas' friend Asher. The Giver is set in a peaceful, colorless community where human suffering is ...

For those who didn’t have The Giver as required reading while in school, the story follows Jonas (Brenton Thwaites), a boy living in a utopian-like society in which everyone is the same and ...

Given all this, Jeff Bridges's long-gestating adaptation of The Giver would have inspired grumbles no matter who it chose to play Jonas, the young boy at the center of the story. That said ...

Based on a young adult dystopian sci-fi novel, “The Giver” follows the story of Jonas, a young boy chosen to be his community’s “Receiver of Memory,” a revered position responsible for ...

Teens involved in Red Mask Players took part in performances of “The Giver” at the Kathryn Randolph Theatre in Danville this ...