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The Giver
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The Giver
Book 1 of the Giver series
208 pages · First published 1993
Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in an apparently peaceful community where careers, families, emotions, and even language are carefully regulated to eliminate conflict and pain. Chosen as the new Receiver of Memory, he begins training with the Giver and experiences memories of color, love, war, music, and suffering that everyone else has surrendered. The knowledge makes the community’s celebrated sameness increasingly disturbing. Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal-winning dystopian novel uses a spare, accessible story to ask whether a society can eliminate pain without also destroying freedom, moral choice, and much of what makes life meaningful.
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