This book is about a boy living in an alternative community of sameness and he has been chosen for the communities most important job. As part of his training he has to receive all memories (good or bad) and because of this, his trainer and he decide their need to be changes made. As a result the boy runs away from home with a baby that would have been released (killed) other wise. I was not really a huge fan of this book, but it does create the opportunity for a lot of discussion. The ending is really what killed the book for me, I would have preferred the ending to of been more defined and left up to less interpretation.
Although I am not a fan of the book, I do think it would be a good book to use in the classroom. Due to the what seemed like a community of complete sameness I think it could lead to a great discussion about whether or not sameness is a good thing. I have a feeling most students would feel as I do, which is that sameness is not good, so I would surely have to play devils advocate. This is one of the concepts in this book that really struck me and I think would be useful. Also, the activity we took part in discussing the different literary elements would definitely be something I would use for this book. I would be interested in seeing how the students depicted the setting, characters and mood.
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