The Giver
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- OfficialKatK
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Re: The Giver
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My sister received it as an assignment in high school when i was really young.
Although I was too young then to really understand it , I became a bit obsessed with it.
As I grew my understanding of it grew as I watched the world around me.
It showed a few sides to certain situations, so I believe it helped me remain more moral then I would have been without it.
No, i am not saying this book is a rule book of morals, but you can use parts of it as parables.
This book does have a lot of depth to it, especially if your looking for it.
A Must to read!!!
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I would rate this story 4 out of 4 because of well everything about it appealed to me and I think if you like dystopian or sci Fi or even the Matched series this book would be for you.
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The Giver by Lois Lowery a 1994 Newberry Medal Winner. This book is about Jonas who lives in a colorless world of conformity and contentment. When he receives his life assignment as the receiver of memory he begins to see him community in a different light. A darker one that is full of complex secrets.
I recommend this book to teenagers and adults.
This book reminded me a mix of The Hunger Games and 1989 but more of an innocent or childlike edition. I recently watched the movie and thought they did a good job. I enjoyed it.
This story is haunting and powerful. All of us say we want world peace. This book shows what sacrifices would have to be made to truly have that peaceful world. One choice would have to be taken away from us.I am not sure the quote is in the book but in the movie she says ” Choice. When a person chooses. They choose wrong.” We all know someone like that it doesn’t matter how hard they choose to do the right thing. They always choose wrong. Eve chose wrong many years ago when sin entered the world.
This is not a happy feel good book. It leaves you thinking about many things in our world.
Here are my favorite quotes:
“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an echo.”
“I liked the feeling of love,’ [Jonas] confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall, reassuring himself that no one was listening. ‘I wish we still had that,’ he whispered.”
“…now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow – moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going”
“Things could change, Gabe,” Jonas went on. “Things could be different. I don’t know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents,” he added, staring through the dimness toward the ceiling of his sleepingroom. “And everybody would have the memories.”
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”
I rate this book a 4 out of 4 stars.
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After the Giver I moved to Ayn Rand's Anthem. It remains one of my favorite books, and I just wish it was longer.
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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As an adult, I've read the whole series and The Giver is my favorite book of the series. But I hated the movie.