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Laddar... The Giver (urspr publ 1993; utgåvan 1994)av Lois Lowry (Författare)
VerksinformationDen utvalde av Lois Lowry (1993)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives. very late to the party with this one. Finally picked back up on reading the newbery books. Dystopian book from the point of view of a child. think the point is that when you start giving up things for safety and pushing for shared experience, you can lose a lot of diversity, strength and joy. Certainly held my interest throughout Jonas lives in an ideal community, where everything is planned out perfectly for children to learn and grow at the right (same) ages, have a career picked out for them, have a spouse picked out for them, and even have their designated maximum of two children picked out for them. No one is ever unhappy for long, and families discuss their feelings nightly to make sure all is sorted out. Medication exists for minor ailments, but there is no hunger or war to warrant much suffering. But when Jonas is selected not for a career so much as an unusual assignment -- that of Receiver to the Giver -- he learns there is more to life than their community of sameness allows. And that the community's perfect veneer hides a dark underbelly. But what can he do with this knowledge if only he and the Giver have the memories of things that happened long ago? This book is ubiquitous in middle and high school circles and I guess for that reason I was convinced I had already read. But whenever I tried to recall what happens in the book, all I came up with was the plot to Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery," which is a rather different story. So, I decided to finally read this book and see what all the fuss was about. I did appreciate how this book makes you question so many things. It starts off seeming almost utopian (and arguably, some could say it is utopian for some members of this society) and then we slowly see how there are things that are far from ideal. But it opens up questions of what would you trade off if you could? Are colors worth having if people are starving? Is music worth listening to if people are killing each other? The book doesn't provide easy answers, but instead allows the ideas of individual choice versus collective good to sit and linger with the reader. One thing that I didn't necessarily like about the book --- which is not a criticism per se --- is that I wanted to know more than what Lowry showed us. I was curious as to how humanity got from our present day to this society; they certainly had some technology we don't but they also did things like control the weather that sure does seem outside of the capabilities of humankind. It also seemed like this community might be the exception rather than the norm, although that wasn't entirely clear. The ending really left me wondering and hoping to know more. I plan to continue on with the series to see if I find answers to my questions. The audiobook narrator did an excellent job but there was a weird choice to randomly play music during certainly selections of the book. I found this jarring, even though the music itself was not unpleasant -- it just seemed to come out of nowhere and then also leave as suddenly. Ingår i serienThe Giver (1) Ingår iHar bearbetningenStuderas iHar som instuderingsbokHar som lärarhandledningPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
Jonas lever i ett samhälle utan konflikter, fattigdom, arbetslöshet eller skilsmässor. En värld där allt fungerar och ingen är missnöjd. Men Jonas är spänd. Spänd inför den årliga ceremonin då samhällets alla tolvåringar ska säga adjö till sin barndom och tilldelas en livsuppgift. I år är det hans tur. Under ceremonin väljs Jonas ut att bli samhällets nya minnesbevarare. Han får gå i lära hos den gamla minnesbevararen, en man som han kallar Givaren. Ju mer tid Givaren och Jonas tillbringar tillsammans, desto mer övertygad blir Jonas om att något är fel, alldeles fasansfullt fel. Han börjar allt tydligare förstå vilka mörka hemligheter som döljs bakom den perfekta fasaden. Suggestivt gastkramande berättelse om ett på ytan perfekt samhälle. Den utvalde är första delen i en serie om fyra titlar av prisad författare. Lois Lowry är född 1937 på Hawaii. Hon har skrivit mer än trettio böcker för barn och unga och har i sitt hemland USA belönats med många litterära priser. 1993 fick hon ta emot The Newbery Medal för sin bok Den utvalde. Hon har även varit nominerad till Alma-priset. [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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