num_pages: 179
description: In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the price.The Giver is set in a future society which is at first presented as a utopia and gradually appears more and more dystopic, so could therefore be considered anti-utopian. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. Jonas' society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan which has also eradicated emotional depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of "Receiver of Memory," the person who stores all the memories of the time before Sameness, in case they are ever needed to aid in decisions that others lack the experience to make. As Jonas receives the memories from his predecessor—the "Giver"—he discovers how shallow his community's life has become.
language: English
title: The Giver
titlecomplete: The Giver (The Giver, #1)
characters: Mother (Lois Lowry), Fiona (Lois Lowry), The Chief Elder (Lois Lowry), Asher (Lois Lowry), Rosemary (Lois Lowry), Father (Lois Lowry), Lily (Lois Lowry), Jonas (Lois Lowry), The Giver (Lois Lowry), Gabriel (Lois Lowry)
genres: Classics, Fantasy, Childrens, Dystopia, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Read For School, School, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 2353931
series: The Giver 
awards: awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Mythopoeic Fantasy Award
category: Children's Literature, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Golden Duck Award
category: Young Adult (Hal Clement Award), awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Garden State Book Award
category: Teen Fiction Grades 6-8, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Buckeye Children's Book Award
category: Grade 6-8, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Grand Canyon Reader Award
category: Teen Book, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award
category: Grade 6-9, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Golden Sower Award
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award
category: Grades 3-8, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Soaring Eagle Book Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
category: Senior, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: William Allen White Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Wyoming Indian Paintbrush, awardedAt: 1357027200000
name: NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Oklahoma Sequoyah Award
category: YA, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, awardedAt: 1262332800000
name: Hea Lasteraamat, awardedAt: 1420099200000
name: Premi Protagonista Jove
category: Categoria 12-14 anys, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Margaret A. Edwards Award
publisher: Dell Laurel-Leaf