It's a perfect world, where everything looks right. But ugly truths lie beneath the surface! It is the future. There is no war, no hunger, no pain. No one in The Community wants for anything. Everyone is provided for. Each Family Unit is entitled to one female and male child. Each member of The Community has their profession carefully chosen for them by the Committee of Elders, and they never make a mistake. Jonas, a sensitive twelve-year-old boy, had never thought there was anything wrong with his Community, until one day. From the moment Jonas is selected as the Receiver of Memory at The Ceremony, his life is never the same. Jonas discovers that The Community is not as perfect as it seems. Although they appear to have everything, they are missing something of great importance. It is up to Jonas, with the help of the Giver, to find what long ago had been lost. And so Jonas embarks on an adventure to save the world as he knows it. Simply and beautifully written, The Giver is sure to touch the heart of every reader. Lois Lowry deals with issues of everyday life that are so often taken for granted.Through the noble character of Jonas, she presents a glimpse of what could be the future. As the tension in the novel mounts, so does the number of questions that Lowry confronts the reader with. The Giver is a book of courage and adventure, and most importantly, one of deep thought. Once readers make contact with Lowry's treasure, they may never see things exactly quite the same. Lowry presents a forceful novel that demands to be heard and philosophically dealt with.
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.
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...
评分 评分这是一个完美的和谐社会---“大同世界”--- 的故事。 这里没有冲突,贫困,猜疑,不安全感。一切都是按分配得来:饮食,职业,婚姻,子女。每个人都生活得认认真真开开心心,家家和睦,人人友善,路不拾遗,夜不闭户。 按照规矩,每天晚餐过后,一家人要围坐在一起“交流情...
评分 评分读到中后段,那种近乎残酷的对比开始撕裂了表面的和谐,简直像被硬生生地拉出了一片色彩斑斓却又充满创伤的世界。我完全理解了“给予者”这个角色的沉重与孤独。那种承载着人类全部历史、所有欢笑与泪水、所有战争与爱情的重量,是任何一个普通人无法想象的。作者通过对话和内心独白,非常细腻地刻画了主人公从懵懂无知到逐渐觉醒的心理转变。这种转变不是一蹴而就的,而是伴随着对“真实”的渴望和对“虚假安全感”的憎恶。书中对色彩、音乐以及深层情感描绘的文字,充满了诗意和张力,与前期世界的单调形成了鲜明对照。我特别欣赏作者对于“记忆”的哲学思辨,记忆不仅仅是过去发生的事情的记录,更是构建个体身份和社群道德基石的关键。一旦被抹除,剩下的就只是被驯化的服从,这种深刻的洞察力,让我对我们自身文化传承的重要性有了更深的敬畏。
评分这本书的叙事风格简直是一次精妙的文字手术,冷静得令人毛骨悚然,却又在不经意间刺痛你的神经末梢。它没有宏大的战争场面来展示压迫,而是聚焦于最微小的个体体验——比如一次不被允许的拥抱,一次对过去事件的模糊记忆。这种“小处着手”的描写,反而让反乌托邦的恐怖感更加真实可触。我尤其被那些关于“消除差异”的制度所震撼,当所有人都被鼓励去“循规蹈矩”时,那种对独特性的扼杀,远比直接的暴力管制更具毁灭性。主角的逃离过程,与其说是物理上的远走,不如说是一场精神上的解放,是对被剥夺了的人类体验的勇敢追寻。每次读到他开始感受到寒冷、饥饿,这些曾经被视为“不适”的体验,此刻却成了他拥有生命力的证明,这种反向价值的颠覆,是我阅读过程中最着迷的部分。
评分从文学技巧上来说,这本书的结构简直是教科书级别的范本,它巧妙地利用了“信息不对称”来驱动情节发展。读者比主人公知道得要多一点,但又被作者限制,只能通过主人公的视角去逐步拼凑真相。这种“已知但不完全知晓”的状态,极大地增强了阅读的代入感和悬念感。对于成年读者而言,这不仅仅是一个关于成长的故事,更是一部关于“系统性遗忘”的寓言。那些关于家庭、爱、以及最基本的生老病死等生命议题的处理,都带着一种近乎冷酷的效率感,让人反思现代社会中,我们是否也在不知不觉中,为了追求某种效率或安全感,而放弃了生命中那些本质上更混乱、却也更丰盛的部分。作者的笔触非常精准,没有丝毫的煽情,但字里行间流露出的对人性的关怀,却是无比深沉而有力的。
评分这部作品给我留下的最强烈的印象,是它对“不适感”的珍视。在充斥着即时满足和过滤后信息的今天,我们太容易将那些带来焦虑、痛苦、甚至只是轻微不便的情绪和体验,统统视为需要被“优化”掉的bug。但这部小说坚定地告诉我,正是这些“不适”,构成了我们作为完整人类的意义。我花了很长时间去消化结局带来的那种模棱两可的开放性,它没有提供一个简单的答案或一个光明的保证,这正是它高明之处。它迫使读者自己去面对:当我们最终获得自由时,我们是否有勇气去接受伴随而来的所有不确定性和痛苦?这种阅读体验,不像是在看一个故事,更像是一次深入骨髓的哲学辩论,它挑战了你对“幸福”的既有定义,并在你心中种下了一颗关于记忆与自由的种子,让你在合上书后,仍然久久无法释怀。
评分这部作品给我的震撼是久远的,它不是那种一目了然的畅快淋漓,而是一种层层剥开、令人心悸的缓慢渗透。故事的开端,那种刻意的、近乎麻木的平静,简直是教科书级别的反乌托邦设定。我仿佛跟着主人公一同呼吸着那个被精心控制的社区里的空气,干燥、精确,没有任何多余的情感波动。你看着那些被分配了终生职业的居民,那种“命中注定”的宿命感,让人不寒而栗。尤其是关于“选择”这一主题的探讨,作者用极其克制的手法,描绘了当“痛苦”和“记忆”被系统性移除后,人类精神世界究竟失去了多少宝贵的东西。我一度沉浸在对这种“完美”社会的质疑中,思考我们如今所珍视的自由和情感的混乱,是否才是真正有价值的。作者的叙事节奏掌握得炉火纯青,前半段的铺陈如同冰冷的雕塑,细节一丝不苟,让人不得不去揣摩每一个看似无害的规定背后,隐藏的巨大代价。这种前期酝酿的压抑感,为后续的情感爆发埋下了深厚的伏笔,使得阅读体验充满了智力上的挑战和情感上的共鸣。
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评分反乌托邦小说经典之作。是学校推荐书单上的书,初一的时候看过中文版。
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