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The Giver by Lois Lowry

September 22, 2017
By Rly.Medina BRONZE, Arlington, Texas
Rly.Medina BRONZE, Arlington, Texas
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The book ‘The Giver’ is a Teen Utopian Dystopian genre book. The book is about a boy named Jonas, the main character who lives in a uniformed society and is given the special assignment of being the ‘Giver’. In the book, a giver is a person who contains all the memories of the past and can transmit them to any given person. The author, Lois Lowry does a phenomenal job of describing all of the thoughts and feelings of Jonas while also doing an amazing job at describing each and every one of the situations. I would personally recommend this book. It is an endless classic with a story plot like no other because it is written with patience and with more detail than a painting.
        

Jonas starts off in the book acting and thinking very much like a robot with little to no emotion giving a very monotone, adult-like dialogue such as in “Though he respected his father’s work, Nurturer would not be his wish.” (Lowry 16). Giving his dialogue a very mature adult-like feeling. Even throughout this time where he is still oblivious to the true horrors, Jonas is aware to some extent of how he is different from others. “Jonas laughed too, and with his laughter tried to ignore his uneasy conviction that something had happened.” (Lowry 24).  So, throughout The Giver, we see the changes that come within Jonas being given the assignment of the Receiver, the most important elder of all. He sees and knows things that no-one else does while keeping it all away from his family, but as he uncovers more and more of the truth Jonas knows that from where he is know there’s no going back.



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