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Genre/Form: | Young adult fiction Science fiction Dystopias Curriculum resource Newbery Medal Young adult works Fiction Juvenile works Dust jackets (Binding) Fantasy literature Juvenile fiction |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Lois Lowry |
ISBN: | 0395645662 9780395645666 |
OCLC Number: | 25872578 |
Awards: | Newbery Medal, 1994 Land of Enchantment Book Award, 1997. |
Target Audience: | 760L; Interest age level : Ages 12-17.; Lexile: 720L. |
Description: | 180 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Plot Overview -- Character List -- Analysis of Major Characters -- Jonas -- The Giver -- Jonas's Father -- Themes, Motifs & Symbols -- The Importance of Memory -- The Relationship Between Pain and Pleasure -- The Importance of the Individual -- Vision -- Nakedness -- Release -- The Newchild Gabriel -- The Sled -- The River -- Summary & Analysis -- Important Quotations Explained -- Study Questions & Essay Topics. |
Responsibility: | Lois Lowry. |
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It is a world without conflict, poverty and inequality. Conformity and happiness are a way of life. But for Jonas, things are different. While his friends are selected to be doctors or teachers, Jonas is sent to the Giver where he discovers the secrets that lie beneath the surface of his world.
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The Giver
This book is about the main characters, Jonas and the Giver, who had the memories of the past, the beauty of the earth, those are the memories that the people in the commumity didn't want it. In every generation, the community would choose a person to be the new receiver. Jonas, the new receiver, received...
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This book is about the main characters, Jonas and the Giver, who had the memories of the past, the beauty of the earth, those are the memories that the people in the commumity didn't want it. In every generation, the community would choose a person to be the new receiver. Jonas, the new receiver, received the memories from the Giver. He thoguht, these memories are beautiful, why the people didn't want them. I don't know either, those memories are beautiful, I couldn't think of a reason why they reject to have those memories. In the book, people would get release when they got old. "Release", this word didn't mean those people would go away fromt he community. It mean
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