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Daniela Viteri

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18/11/2014

Kodi Kelly

From the book "The Giver"

I haven´t really read The Giver. All  I have done is look at the outside of the book and a very interesting quote that said “For all the children to whom we entrust the future.” There is only one perspective I see on the quote, no room for interpretation. What Lois Lowry meant by this, in my opinion, is that the book is dedicated to all the children, the children who will be in charge of the future after that generation is gone. The children who will have life as we know it on their hands, what the world may become depends on the decisions we, the children take when we are older.

After reading the summary found on the back of the book many questions come to mind. What I can infer about the little information I know about the book is that on the future, the world will have no flaws. Everything controlled in a way that the world doesn’t feel what humans usually do, pain and joy. But there is always this character who is different, who is able to notice something is wrong. In this case Jonas is the character who notices that life isn’t really perfect at all. He will find that there is only one man who really knows what living a life full of purposes, sadness, love and happiness really is. This man is known as The Giver and he lives hidden of the new government that changed life as it was. I think Jonas will find this man and the giver will tell him everything he could probably say except for the answer Jonas went looking for because the new government will interfere. Making The Giver disappear forever.

The book seems interesting at first. However, I don’t think it would be worth reading because the plot is very good but the development of how the story will really be does not look very clear or interesting. Nevertheless, I will still read it with an open mind because books can always have an element of surprise.

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