The GIVER
I read 'The GIVER' as a summer reading assignment. This book is science a fiction story in 1993. This book won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 5.3 million copies.
Lois Lowry
Lois lowry (on March 20, 1937) is an American author of children's literature. She always writes complex issues as racism, terminal illness, murder, and the Holocaust among other challenging topics.
The reason why I chose it is because my friend recommended it. She said it was easy to read and understand, and it was also interesting. That's why I chose The GIVER.
This world has no worry, no hunger, no mental pain.... so it is like Utopia. There are also no feeling, no color, no choice....On the other hand, there are a lot of strict rules. Many things are prohibitted in order to protect people from dangerous or wrong choices. It is strange world. The main character a boy, Jonas who is 12 years old. He is appointed The Receiver of Memory. This assignment is to receive all memories of whole world. He knew feelings, 'happy' 'love' and 'lonliness' 'cruel of war' like mental pain. He noticed the world with feelings was better and it was important to have them, so finally he decided to try to change the commity.
First I thought the scary of the controled world. There is no character and no free. If so, we cannot have the meaning of living! It is good because everybody is different each other. Second I thoughtthe importance of individual. The world in this book has no choice, but we have to choose by ourselves! Because we should think and understand ourselves.Actually it is hard to decide something by ourselves, however, the result whether the choice is good or not doesn't matter. The behavior of choosing by ourselves is important. Finally I noticed the imporyance of mental pain. I know mental pain, so I can know mental happiness. For example, I know war is terrible thing, so I also know peace is imprtant.
I like this book. I really enjoyed reading it. I hope the world like this controled crazy world will not come in the future!
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返信削除I read "The Giver" too, and I thought the world without any choices is terrible, too. I think this world is interesting because of many emotions.
I enjoyed this book, of course, and I enjoyed your reaction, too :)
Thank you!
Nice reaction, Rena! Well-written and insightful. I agree that this book helps us think about the role of decisions, pain, and emotions even though they can be stressful or undesirable in our lives.
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