The Color Red
OK, so what do you think of when you think of red? Fire, passion, and love…exactly. Red is a pretty intense color. Possibly the inte...An isolated "community" sometime in the future
Yes, our description rather vague, but so is the setting in The Giver. We can't be sure when the s...Third Person (Limited Omniscient)
The Giver is told in the third person, but focuses exclusively on Jonas. We know what he's thinking and feeling, and we don't...Dystopian Literature, Science Fiction
Jonas's community is an attempt at a utopia – a perfect society with no pain, suffering, or violence. But, as we se...Seductive (Lowry's words, not ours)
Lois Lowry explains in her Newberry Medal acceptance speech that she tried to "seduce" the reader. No, not that way....Plain, Clear
The Giver is a rather straightforward narrative, so you won't get bogged down in ornate language or Faulkner-like, page-long sentences. But...The term "The Giver" refers of course to the old man, the former Receiver, who transfers all his memories to Jonas. The very names "Giver" and "Receiver" remind us of one of the book's central them...
The ending to The Giver is sort of a "take it how you like it" deal. Either Jonas and Gabriel make it to Elsewhere, everyone is happy, and the world is right as rain, or…they die of ex...
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