The Giver
A boy chosen to receive hidden memories discovers the cost of his community’s perfect, controlled sameness.
First published 1999 · The Giver
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Story
Jonas lives in a carefully ordered community where choices are made for everyone and life seems peaceful on the surface. At age twelve, he is singled out for a special assignment unlike any other child’s, beginning training with the only person who holds the community’s memories.
As Jonas receives those memories, he learns what his society has removed in the name of safety and sameness. Color, emotion, pain, love, loss, and the past open up a larger reality than he has ever known, and he begins to question the rules and values of the world around him.
That growing knowledge forces Jonas toward a difficult decision about his future and the community’s. The book builds toward an ending that many readers describe as ambiguous or open to interpretation, leaving its outcome and implications unresolved in the text itself.
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Details
- Authors
- Lois Lowry
- First published
- 1999
- Genres
- Young Adult, Classics, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Fantasy, School, Middle Grade, Read For School, Graphic Novels
- Subjects
- Social control · Control (Psychology) · Juvenile fiction · Fiction · Science fiction · Memory · Ethics · Dystopias · Blind · Braille language materials · Books and reading · Children's fiction · New York Times reviewed · Literature · Dystopian · Sci Fi · Novel · Children's literature, study and teaching · Children's literature, examinations, questions, etc. · Newbery Medal · Ciencia-ficción · Classic · Individuality · Comic books, strips · Graphic novels · YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Dystopian · YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Fantasy · YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Comics & Graphic Novels / Coming of Age · Adventure and adventurers, fiction · Liberty · Social prediction · award:Newbery_award · Children's literature
- ISBN-13
- 9780385732550
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