The Giver by Lois Lowry
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| The Giver by Lois Lowry |
The Giver is a 1993 American children's novel by
Lois Lowry. It is set in a society which is at first presented as a
utopian society and gradually appears more and more
dystopian.
The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the thirteenth year of his
life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to
"Sameness," a plan that has also eradicated emotional
depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of
Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the
time before Sameness, in case they are ever needed to aid in decisions
that others lack the experience to make. Jonas learns the truth about
his dystopian society and struggles with its weight.
The Giver won the 1994
Newbery Medal and has sold more than 10 million copies.
In Australia, Canada, and the United States, it is a part of many
middle school reading lists, but it is also on many challenged book
lists and appeared on the
American Library Association's list of most challenged books of the 1990s.
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