It is so deceptive that it has won many awards from supposedly intelligent and responsible organizations. Only if one considers service to Lucifer as being responsible. This horrendous book could be used in graduate schools as a study of what can go wrong in a godless and dispassionate feminist meticulously controlled self-centered society. It is rule oriented, governed, and adjudicated by women. After that time they serve as laborers, the societies lowest class, until they reach old age.
Pregnancy is accepted as necessary but held as a position with very low esteem.
Only specially selected males and females are allowed to enter what is loosely called a marriage. The marriage is without sexual activity and the couple serve as rearing parents for one male and one female child after which they live in a separate environment for childless couples until old age. The Giver is definitely not for reading by those who are below 20 years of age. Yet, it is being promoted for use in both public and parochial grammar schools. Deceptively, this book is presented as fictional.