5/30/2023 0 Comments The giver novel![]() ![]() ![]() For a kid, it was deep.īut what happens at the end of the book? Jonas runs away from the community with a baby, Gabriel, in his arms, but it’s entirely unclear from the last scene - where he’s sledding downhill toward sounds of music - whether this is a death metaphor or a happy ending. ![]() This was a book that made you think about bigger ideas like “society” and “free will” and “totalitarianism.” Okay, maybe not “totalitarianism” per se, but it certainly impressed ideas about what suppressing individualism does. The story was about a boy named Jonas living in what seemed like the perfect world where there was no hunger, war, or poverty, who then slowly realizes that it’s one deprived of choice, spontaneity, and most memorably, color. So you were in fourth or fifth grade when you had to read The Giver - that book with a gnarly, bearded old guy and a bright-gold medal slapped on the cover. ![]()
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