/lit/ - Literature

Their yearly gift was different for each gender.

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Is this a thread about YA literature?
Don't mind me, just stopping by, being respectable...

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The Giver- Lois Lowry

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I don't know what you guys think about The Giver, but personally, I felt that for what it is, it makes its point, and it's enjoyable to a degree. Gathering Blue and Messenger, on the other hand, were terrible books. I forced myself through Gathering Blue and have no recollection of it and I could barely read a chapter of Messenger.

But perhaps the stupidest thing about this book isn't the book at all. I had to read it in eighth grade, and the English teacher I had that assigned it gave us an assignment where we had to... wait for it... WRITE AN ALTERNATE ENDING THAT SHOWS WHAT HAPPENS AFTER END. Yes, she basically assigned us with the task of writing a fanfic. Now, I know that you're supposed to form your own opinion about the ending, but she wanted us to, and I quote,

>"Finish the process of the Hero's Journey by writing about Jonas and Gabe's return"

No. You're missing the point. Why would they want to go back to that place? Jonas was trying to escape, to find somewhere that wasn't so horrible. I even asked her if she's ever read Messenger, (which clearly states that Jonas and Gabe found another place to live) and guess what? She said she was fully aware of Messenger's existence.

The fuck. You know exactly what happens in that series's canon, yet you force us to write an alternate ending fanfic just to give us an idea of how The Hero's Journey works? Fuck you, eighth grade English teacher. Fuck you.

I'm really, REALLY disappointed in you guys. Nobody said "The Giver" not once. That book reeks of dystopia and shit OP would like.

I'm looking for a certain book that had the following contents. Details are vague since it's been a while.

It was like a utopia of some sort where everyone was similar. Nobody was faster than another and nobody was smarter than another. One guy managed to break free of it and became (I THINK) all powerful and he was defeated I think by the police who made people equal. It was similar to "The Giver." Oh and it was a short story I think considering I read it in an English Book.

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What does /lit/ think of The Giver?
It was one of my favorite books as a child but I want to know how tinted my nostalgic glasses are.

Hey /lit/. I'm a junior high English teacher, and I was wondering if you lot could recommend some deep or philosophical books about whose main character is a child or early teen. Coming-of-age stories are especially great.

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An influential book for me as a kid. I always had a thing for order and perfection, but the horrors of a perfect society were never really apparent to me until I read this book. Looking back, a lot of my current political standpoints wouldn't be the same unless I had read this. Discuss.

Even back then I kept thinking to myself "Logan's Run ripoff".

A challenger appears!

I'm looking for a download of The Giver, preferably in PDF form. I read it when I was younger, and I've had a craving to read it again. The local library is out of copies though, which I hope are being read by little kids who are enjoying it. Can anybody help me out?

O K /lit/ I'm looking for a good story to read. I just finished the giver (yea yea i know its a low grade book, get over it) and i like it. I never got a chance to read it when i was a kid. But it has sparked a fire in me to want to read more stories.

1. I don't care for war, "big brother", politics, wizardry, horror, philosophy (I do love it but its not what im looking for at the moment so please don't try to act like your oh so deep and unique)

2. The animals don't die.

Basically I'm looking for a book where you're on an adventure, you get attached to the characters ( usually with a comic relief character thrown in)

"Holes" is an example of one i enjoyed in 6th grade. I'm looking for things like that. Yes its low grade, but i dont care about the easiness it is to read. I just care about the imagination and story it takes you with.

Halp!

picked it out of the class' library in 5th grade and i fell in love with this book.

Hello /lit/

First time on this board and I just wanted to ask if people had the same opinion of this book that I did.

The Giver.

Summer reading bullshit in 9th grade. And I picked this book. Usually I would spark note it and then do average on the tests come the first days of the new school year.

But this book. This book just captivated me.

Can anyone recommended me books like this? I just graduated highschool last month, and till this day. I still re-read this book over and over.

What does /v/ think of this book?

ITT: Worst cliffhangers. GO

The Giver, alt. plot interpretation:

A boy who does not have many noteworthy friends (and may therefore be a loner) is selected from his elementary school grad class by a politically powerful, but otherwise lonely old man. 'The Giver' conducts 'lessons' with 'The Receiver" in complete, unrecorded privacy and forbids him from telling anybody about them. He is told that he can't run away, otherwise something absoutely ridiculous will happen, and hurt everybody he knows (essentially, they will all experience 'lessons'). The lessons themselves arouse incredibly vivid and intense hallucination sequences, many of which are so excruciating that 'The Receiver' requires pain-relief meds afterwards. As the novel progresses, he becomes more and more distant from his friends and family.

Eventually, 'The Giver' makes a plan to get the youth 'Elsewhere', but the boy is forced to take his baby brother and get him the fuck out before his dad kills the infant. In the wild, he imitates 'giving' on his little brother over and over until it stops feeling good. They freeze to death, probably nowhere near a hill.

The Giver, alt. plot interpretation:

A boy who does not have many noteworthy friends (and may therefore be a loner) is selected from his elementary school grad class by a politically powerful, but otherwise lonely old man. 'The Giver' conducts 'lessons' with 'The Receiver" in complete, unrecorded privacy and forbids him from telling anybody about them. He is told that he can't run away, otherwise something absoutely ridiculous will happen, and hurt everybody he knows (essentially, they will all experience 'lessons'). The lessons themselves arouse incredibly vivid and intense hallucination sequences, many of which are so excruciating that 'The Receiver' requires pain-relief meds afterwards. As the novel progresses, he becomes more and more distant from his friends and family.

Eventually, 'The Giver' makes a plan to get the youth 'Elsewhere', but the boy is forced to take his baby brother and get him the fuck out before his dad kills the infant. In the wild, he imitates 'giving' on his little brother over and over until it stops feeling good. They freeze to death, probably nowhere near a hill.