The Giver by Lois Lowry
TITLE: The Giver
AUTHOR: Lois Lowry
I looked in the Memories and was very surprised when I didn't find this novel in there. A lot of my friends had to read this in High School - I didn't but I got along well with my 10th grade English teacher and we made a deal that she would read my favorite novel if I read hers; she handed me this novel.
7 years after originally reading it I came upon it in a discount/overstock store for $2.50 and grabbed it immediately. I re-read it and still feel that it is very powerful and definitely disturbing in the way that 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World are.
The Giver is a novel written by Lois Lowry and published on April 16, 1993. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore, it could be considered anti-utopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. Jonas' society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan which has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of "Receiver of Memory," the person who stores all the memories of the time before Sameness, in case they are ever needed to aid in decisions that others lack the experience to make. As Jonas receives the memories from his predecessor—-the "Giver"-—he discovers how shallow his community's life has become.
-Wikipedia
AUTHOR: Lois Lowry
I looked in the Memories and was very surprised when I didn't find this novel in there. A lot of my friends had to read this in High School - I didn't but I got along well with my 10th grade English teacher and we made a deal that she would read my favorite novel if I read hers; she handed me this novel.
7 years after originally reading it I came upon it in a discount/overstock store for $2.50 and grabbed it immediately. I re-read it and still feel that it is very powerful and definitely disturbing in the way that 1984, Animal Farm, and Brave New World are.
The Giver is a novel written by Lois Lowry and published on April 16, 1993. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopian society and gradually appears more and more dystopian; therefore, it could be considered anti-utopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. Jonas' society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan which has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of "Receiver of Memory," the person who stores all the memories of the time before Sameness, in case they are ever needed to aid in decisions that others lack the experience to make. As Jonas receives the memories from his predecessor—-the "Giver"-—he discovers how shallow his community's life has become.
-Wikipedia
