The Giver译为“赐予者”或“授者”，是洛伊丝·洛利最著名的也是最受争议的作品。在The Giver里，作者描绘了一个想像出来的乌托邦世界。在这个社会里，人们的生活都被安排得好好的，人们不用决定工作，不用决定配偶，这些问题，社会都帮个人做好了决定。而这个世界也没有记忆、感情、颜色及音乐，人们只有最基本的生活需求。但有一个人例外，他一个人承担了整个世界该有的记忆，他必须独自承受痛苦、恐惧、和孤单，而他也同时知道什麼是温暖、幸福和爱。这个人被称为the receiver of memory，也就是the Giver。当12岁的男主角Jonas成为这个the receiver of memory的接班人后，他得到了他以前所不曾有过的经验，而当他知道愈多时，他愈发现这个世界的不合理，最后他选择了逃离……
作者简介
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Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them th...
Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader.s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association.s Children.s Book Award. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine.
A committee was studying the idea. When something went to a committee for study, the people always joked about it. Rules were very hard to change. Sometimes, if it was a very important rule, it would have to go, eventually, to The Receiver for a decision. The Receiver was the most important Elder. (查看原文)
是作为文学读本，读的过程中特别留意一些小词的用法，比如the air was thick with smoke that hung, hung这个词有点大漠孤烟直的意思。会再看，继续琢磨词。
故事的话，没看书评之前没意识到反乌托邦，倒是觉得很精神分析，人类为了逃避痛苦，逃避了一切感觉，而失去了感觉的人类，也失去了思考和智慧。
The end of this story, Jonas face to a serious question, he has to make a choice, ‘Lie or die.’ Keep living in that stable community, don’t have to worry about hunger, disease, everyday is similar, that is live in lie. Or he can escape, and start worr...
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"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." Various memories is filling our daily life. They could be gotten by experience or listening. And what is the exactly meaning of memories? ...
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Book review on The Giver This book has raised lots of thoughts and questions in my mind:questions about my own life,my own future,my own family,my community,decisions I’m making,values I’m wondering for the first time. At the beginning of the story,I find...
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3 有用 甤特 2012-11-13 21:11:17
结尾？
3 有用 estelle 2020-07-01 18:47:53
是作为文学读本，读的过程中特别留意一些小词的用法，比如the air was thick with smoke that hung, hung这个词有点大漠孤烟直的意思。会再看，继续琢磨词。 故事的话，没看书评之前没意识到反乌托邦，倒是觉得很精神分析，人类为了逃避痛苦，逃避了一切感觉，而失去了感觉的人类，也失去了思考和智慧。
6 有用 意闲 2015-08-09 09:11:44
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1 有用 tt 2024-02-16 21:37:03 浙江
故事编得有一些漏洞和一些故意煽情的地方，但是我认为很适合中学生读
2 有用 k氏 2019-03-29 16:01:54
哭惨了的两处：一个是the giver说自己最宝贵的记忆是音乐，一个是the giver对jonas说i love you