| Description |
1 online resource (180 pages) |
| 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. |
| Summary |
Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal, if colorless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he begin to understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community. |
| Audience |
760L Lexile |
| Study Program |
Accelerated Reader AR MG 5.7 7 8568 |
| Note |
Companion book to: Gathering blue, Messenger, and Son. |
| Summary |
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Science fiction.
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Individuality -- Juvenile fiction.
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Liberty -- Juvenile fiction.
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Social control -- Juvenile fiction.
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Social prediction -- Juvenile fiction.
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Memory -- Juvenile fiction.
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Dystopias -- Juvenile fiction.
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Control (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Freedom -- Fiction.
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Memory -- Fiction.
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Self -- Fiction.
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Dystopias. |
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Individuality. |
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Liberty. |
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Memory. |
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Social control. |
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Social prediction. |
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Individuality -- Juvenile fiction. |
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Freedom -- Juvenile fiction. |
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Social control -- Juvenile fiction. |
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Social prediction -- Juvenile fiction. |
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Memory -- Juvenile fiction. |
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Dystopias -- Juvenile fiction. |
| Genre |
Science fiction.
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Dystopian fiction.
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Fiction.
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Juvenile works.
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Science fiction.
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Dystopian fiction.
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Science fiction.
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Cloud Library eBook. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lowry, Lois. Giver Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993 0395645662 (DLC) 92015034 (OCoLC)25872578 |
| ISBN |
9780547345901 : $9.99 |
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0547345909 : $9.99 |
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