The Giver book

"The Giver" is basically the story of a young boy named Jonas who lives in a dystopian society in which there is very little pain or emotion. Jonas is named the new Receiver of Memories, and he is apprenticed to the Giver, who passes along communal memories from the past, filled with both pain and pleasure. Jonas eventually comes to see the disadvantages to his society's way of removing all emotion from life, and he runs away, releasing the memories to the rest of the community.