Mla Citation For The Giver By Lois Lowry

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The book The Giver by Lois Lowry is a different book. This book is a futuristic book, I mean showing beyond the present. It is mainly based on a child, and his future work and or destination, making history in a small community, where everything is quiet and could be said perfect and controlled. Each of its inhabitants is assigned to their job to avoid mistakes. Curiously, the book is about people, not their ignorance, but their lack of life experiences and knowledge of the outside world. This perhaps shows the day that the world will be a miserable world in my view and colorless, literally. It would be an empty, false and perfect life, without errors, and incomplete happiness, where the word love feels like it has lost its meaning and has become somewhat devalued. …show more content…

The cover and title of The Giver did not catch my curiosity and to be honest the cover image did not reveal much about everything that it was going to teach me or about the places that I would be transported to. “Giver, what causes you paint?. But I haven’t suffered, Giver. Not really. Oh, I remember the sunburn you gave me on the very first day. But that wasn’t so terrible. What is it that makes you suffer so much? If you gave some of it to me, maybe your pain would be less.” (Lowry). This fragment shows a little part of the story in The Giver, this is reality. I like this part, because it kind of showed me a little child who wants to learn to help his neighbor. This book reminds me to another, The siever and the Salamander by Ray Bradbury, both books talk about the people’s fear, about the danger of the wisdom, its power. Ignorance of people wanting to feel God. Wanting to have everything under control without knowing that take away life, the meaning of

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