Book · Kindle · 1993
Pass it on
The Giver
60Watch it awake.
Worth an evening for a reader who can ask what the calm is hiding.
The review
The community is kind, clean, and killing babies and the old behind a euphemism. Jonas's courage is not a battle. It is refusing the calm. That maps onto a house more closely than a dystopia usually does: the danger is a life with no grief and no music.
It is short, and the ending does not explain itself. Let it stay unexplained for a night. Do not rush to the sequels.
Journal
Keep The Giver in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 60. Yours can differ.
The glance
Household and Piety are the thin ones.
Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Christy
74 instead of 60
Christy is still a novel book, and it scores 74 instead of 60. What you gain is piety: Faith is the reason she is there.
The eight
- 6Industry
Jobs are assigned. The work of memory is the only one that matters, and it is lonely.
- 4Household
Family is a unit assigned by committee. Love is the thing they have no word for.
- 3Piety
Awe is medicated. The ceremony replaces conscience.
- 8Courage
Jonas leaves, knowing the sled may not be enough.
- 5Republic
The community is order without neighbors who can refuse.
- 7Temperance
The book is against a life with the pain edited out.
- 8Truth
Samelessness is the horror. He chooses to feel it.
- 7Stewardship
He carries memory for people who did not ask, and then he tries to give it back.
Where to read
Finding the page.
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