The Giver by Lois Lowry
My rating: 3/5 cats
snif. this book marks the end of dystopian month in grad school. it’s okay, it was getting a little bleak in here. i’m not sure if this counts as dystopian, because it reads more like a teen cult novel. with magic. we never really find out what is happening in The World Outside—this could all take place in some small gated community like that one in disney which is totally creepy in its forced perfection. i absolutely support lowry’s apparent stance on the twin agenda, but the rest of it seems underthought out. even if you are simply setting up a small allegory for a teen audience, it can still make sense. actually, i think you have to make more sense than with an adult audience because kids still have all that interest in life, and may be more accustomed to asking “why?” and”why not?” and “how?” and “blah.” again, this may be a book i am too old to read now, and if i had read it when i was younger, or not last-in-a-string of similarly-themed works that treated the subject better (mostly), it could have been different for us. but that’s where it is.
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