We lived in a world where differences weren't allowed. Take that back! Whoever is listening, please, please, do not make me Vice Chancellor of Waste Management! Please! Fiona, well, she was the girl who made everyone smile. Asher was the boy who made everyone laugh. I got Asher to come say goodbye to Teacher. I always felt like I saw things - differently saw things other people didn't. Tomorrow we'd be assigned our jobs, our purpose. That day, the day before graduation, I admit it, I was scared. Rules like: use precise language, wear your assigned clothing, take your morning medication, obey the curfew, never lie. Rules were the building blocks of that equality. The novel forms a loose quartet with three other books set in the same future era, known as The Giver Quartet: Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012).Īfter The Ruin we started over, creating a new society, one of true equality. In 2014, a film adaptation was released, starring Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep and Brenton Thwaites. designated it the fourth-best children's novel of all time. In Australia, Canada, and the United States, it is on many middle school reading lists, but it is also frequently challenged and it ranked number 11 on the American Library Association list of the most challenged books of the 1990s. The Giver won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 10 million copies worldwide as of 2014. The Community lacks any color, memory, climate, or terrain, all in an effort to preserve structure, order, and a true sense of equality beyond personal individuality. Jonas struggles with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him: whether they are inherently good, evil, or in between, and whether it is even possible to have one without the other. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of Receiver of Memory, the person who stores all the past memories of the time before Sameness, as there may be times where one must draw upon the wisdom gained from history to aid the community's decision making. The society has taken away pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan that has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. The novel follows a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. It is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses. The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry.
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