In a perfect world, Jonas begins to see the flaws...
THE GIVER is the classic award-winning novel that inspired the dystopian genre and a major motion picture adaptation for 2014 starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Katie Holmes and Taylor Swift.
The Giver
For fans of Gone, Hunger Games and Uglies, see where teen teen dystopian fiction all started. Lois Lowry's classic The Giver is a coming of age tale about the power of knowledge and the importance of individuality. Jonas lives in a perfect world with no fear, pain, war or sickness, a perfect society that has converted to the sameness. But life as he knows it is about to change when Jonas is chosen to inherit all memory of the time before the sameness from the one they call The Giver. The more he learns the more Jonas questions the society he was brought up in. The Giver is a special book that has stuck with me a long time. Reviewed by 08sv
QBD, 28/08/2014
The Giver
Jonas lives in a community where there is no war, no hunger or pain. It is through his eyes that we discover he lives in a very different world to our own. A controlled world, where everyone has their path in life chosen for them. Mates are chosen, children are applied for. There is no music, and there are no colours. Even the climate is controlled. By why is it this way, and why isn't anyone asking questions Everything is the way it is and always has been. It is only when Jonas is selected to become the next Receiver Of Memory, we start to discover this world wasn't always the way it is now. A short tale with big possibilities. As Reviewed by 43MS
QBD, 28/07/2014
