Jonas is apprehensive. He is twelve, and twelve means receiving your adult assignment and beginning training for what you will do with the rest of your life. He has good reason for his apprehension, for he is not assigned a job, he is instead selected for the mysterious position as The Receiver of M...
This is, by far, one of the best and thought-provoking books in the young-adult and fiction genre. There are a plethora of books published about perfect worlds and societies, where change is unacceptable and cookie-cutter human beings have become part of forced living communities, as a result of the...
The topic of this book at first may sound chessy. But it really touches me as I read further and further. When I read the last chapter, I was so attached to the main characters... It's so touching.
The Giver is a classic YA dystopian. In fact I had to read it for sixth grade English. I even still have my copy with its highlights.It features Jonas who lives in a strict society. We see the book through his eyes so initially everything seems normal. But as the book goes on we learn how everything...
Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain a...
I really did not expect that. I thought this book was just another dystopian fiction, but it was more than that. This book is set in a community where people are all the same. They do not chose their job, they do not chose their spouse and they're assigned children. They received their bike at 9 a...
Si bien las distopías son moneda corriente en la literatura juvenil de hoy en día, su presencia ha existido por más de un siglo. Algunos con una gran fuerza reflexiva, con un impresionante (y escalofriante) poder de percepción del futuro, o simplemente con una capacidad de entrar en un mundo diferen...
Was there such a thing as YA Dystopian literature before The Giver? I don't know, but I'm quite certain we'd never know Katniss or Tris if Jonus had never existed.I missed out on reading The Giver in my youth. It was published as I was graduating high school, which was immediately followed by life, ...
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