星期六, 4月 28, 2007

The giver

中文介紹

The background of this book is a Utopia community in the future. In this community, everything is controlled by the elders. They control the weather, childbirth, colors, and occupations. The leading role – Jonas is assigned to be the receiver of memory at the December ceremony when he is 12. Jonas’s responsibility is to take all memories to prevent the community collapse. During the job training, he needs to take all memories in the community by the giver, for example all sadness, the war, all loneness, love, happiness, colors, the sun, the snow, or anything will cause damage to the order of the community. At this moment, he finds everything is not as happy as he sees. He knows the truth, but he is not allowed to tell his friends, and his family. Even he tries to tell them the reality, no one believes him because others don’t have those memories in their life. Jonas is very frightened and he can’t live with knowing everything. He wants to change something. So he and the giver make the decision to try to change something. I like this book because all the action is tightly-knit and the outcome is opposite what I thought. This is also a little sad story.



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