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The Giver by Lois Lowry
Bantam Books, 1993
Bantam Books, 1993
Reviewer recommended age 11 and up.Summary
This 1994 Newbery Award winner is a short novel set in a utopian society where the policy of "sameness" has eliminated all stress and trouble. To his astonishment, 12-year-old Jonas finds out that it has also eliminated all color and emotion.
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This 1994 Newbery Award winner is a short novel set in a utopian society where the policy of "sameness" has eliminated all stress and trouble. To his astonishment, 12-year-old Jonas finds out that it has also eliminated all color and emotion.
Language
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Sexual Situations
- Jonas notices unusual feelings toward a girl his age who is a dear friend.
- When he reports the dreams he has had about the girl, his parents present him with pills he must take daily in order to squelch the "stirrings".
- Some 12-year-old girls are chosen as breeders. They will later be artificially inseminated once a year for three years in order to add to the population.
- Jonas' job is to receive memories about the human race's past in order to preserve them, and yet protect the population from anything troubling. Many of the memories involve intense pain, fear and injury.
- Jonas discovers to his horror that "releasing" citizens from the community really means euthanasia for all considered too old, too weak, or too ignorant to contribute.
- Pills are given to all citizens for illness, mental anguish, and sexual stirrings.
- All people in the community are almost identical.
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