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Imagine if you had been told that, as old twelvemonths, you had to get a job... and then keep it for the rest of your life. Terrifying? Try this: imagine if you had been always been viewed over by an obscure brute force. Yikes? All of this is dreadful, however The Giver is the gift that keeps on giving (you nightmares): envision a society in which there are not any emotions.

No love, no hatred, to bliss, no jealousy, no aggravation.

Excuse us while we spend the following day beneath our comforter, quaking in fear.

Lois Lowry printed The Giver at 1993. However, because two is definitely better than one, she won a second Newbery to get The Giver.

The Giver tells the story of a young boy named Jonas residing in an extremely controlled community a time in the future. The novel fits into a larger genre of cautionary stories known as "dystopian literature." A utopia is a society where everything is ideal, thus a dystopia is the contrary: what has gone wrong. The novel explores Jonas's experience with memories of "the past," a time similar to ours, where individuals still had the freedom of selection.

And, because anything meant for young adults who mentions government or sex is frequently labeled "controversial," it was prohibited. A lot.

That is funny, right? A novel about a society which simplifies seasons, free will, music, colours, emotions and books... was prohibited.

So whether you're a fan of YA or some scholar of Kant, a middle-school pupil or a smart old grandmother, you need to read The Giver.

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