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This was a Dystopian novel set in a strange world where everybody is same. The world has no color and difference. Everybody and Everything is same, how our hero learn more about the world he lives in and how he learns that the things are not always how they seem.
People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but even those once in ...more
People who don't read generally ask me my reasons for reading. Simply put I just love reading and so to that end I have made it my motto to just Keep on Reading. I love to read everything except for Self Help books but even those once in ...more
I didn't read this book in grade school like everyone else in my generation, and gosh, this is deep, heavy stuff. It's the kind of heavy that kids can understand and also imbues them with responsibility. I say that because that is how I felt after reading it: that I need to recognize gifts and be grateful for my world, to help others who are powerless or knowledgeless, to take bold risks for justice. What a great book.
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Jonas lives in a world of control and uniformity, personal urges are suppressed with pills and the society chooses a fitting profession for the individuals. Jonas is chosen to become the Giver, the one person within the society that holds the memories of past generations to advice the government based on the experiences he is slowly receiving from his mentor, the current Giver.
Bit by bit he not only discovers beautiful moments of past generations he is not experiencing in his world, where people ...more
Bit by bit he not only discovers beautiful moments of past generations he is not experiencing in his world, where people ...more
The Giver is one of the most challenged and banned books (#11 on the list of 100 at the ALA, according to the previous link)currently taught in schools. And here I am, teaching it in Korea. Can't say I love discussing the Stirrings with my middle schoolers.
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