The Giver
by Lois Lowry
Rating - Writing ***** (5 stars); The plot turns of the author ** (2 stars)
Have you ever had a book that was so wonderfully written that you were completely ingrossed in the charactors. Yet, at the same time you see the story unfolding and you want to scream - no that is not the way it is suppose to be. Why would you ever make that choice. What about this, this would work, this would make for a much better plot. Why go through all the drama if the end result is the same? That is this book.
The Giver is a dysatopian novel about a society who has given up memories in exchange for sameness. They have even managed to eliminate color. Yet, one person has to hold the memories for the entire society. When gets old, a new person is chosen to train in his place.
Both know that society should not continue on as it is, so the devise a plan to fix it. Except the plan makes absolutly no sense. I have no choice but to continue on in the series to see if I can come to terms with why the author wrote the novel the way that she did. Yet any novel that can bring about this much turmoil must be one of the greats.
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