If there is a better book than Lois Lowry’s The Giver, I have yet to read it. Not only would I give the book to any teen-aged girls I have befriended, but I would also give it to teen boys, adults, and middle-grade readers. I would give this to my boyfriend (a literary snob), to my best friend (a doctor and lover of The Hunger Games), to my mother who claims to hate anything but the most realistic of books, to my brother or father who live off of non-fiction and political diatribes.
It’s just that good.
I read this book as a kid, and multiple times as an adult. I wrote my very first college paper comparing The Giver to Fight Club (if this sounds unlikely, please note I went to drama school and such things were encouraged, if not down right required). Not only did the book open me to the idea of dystopian novels, it also began to define my understanding of the world and the value of a life fully lived and fully remembered.
Jonah, keeper of the community’s memories and emotional history, is the pinnacle of understanding that there can be no pleasure without pain, no absolute joy without absolute sorrow.
Um, is there a more useful lesson? Especially at the holidays? So read the Giver. And give the Giver. You won’t regret it.
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I do agree, for i am reading this book for a class project, i didnt like it at first but i cant put it down.
its that good