13 Facts About The Giver

The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry, set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but is revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses.

The Giver won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 12 million copies worldwide.

The Giver seeks reassurance from his father, a Nurturer, and his mother, an official in the Department of Justice.

The Giver is told that the Elders, who assign the children their careers, are always right.

Since he now considers his father a murderer, Jonas initially refuses to return home, but the Giver convinces him that without the memories, the people of the Community cannot know that what they have been trained to do is wrong.

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Lowry said of the people living in The Giver, they have lived in a sterile world for so long that they are in danger of losing the real emotions that make them human.

The Giver's likens the lack of difference and literal color blindness of The Giver's community with color blind attitudes that act as if racial difference does not exist, and suggests that the book shows the way that colorblindness erases people of color and their experiences through their lack of visibility.

The Giver's further suggests the release of those who do not fit societal conventions represent the ways that eugenics were employed by the society of The Giver.

The Giver argues that through bio-technical planning, people's bodies become vehicles of state control rather than the locus of their autonomy.

Some readers have felt that The Giver should be listed under "Young Adult Fiction" due to its graphic content detailing euthanasia, mental health and death.

The Giver's describes how parents feel that they have a responsibility in protecting their children from explicit content which results in not reading Lowry's work.

The Giver has things to say that cannot be said too often, and I hope there will be many, many young people who will be willing to listen.

The Giver saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried in its slow-moving water; and he knew that there was an Elsewhere from which it came, and an Elsewhere to which it was going.