The Giver By Lois Lowry

The Giver is adolescent dystopian written by Lois Lowry. This story can be helpful for adolescent because it shows the importance of love, kindness and other important features that must be combined with the strong rationality, the disadvantages of which are also shown in the book. The Giver shows the importance of the balance of rationality and emotions in the social structure and for a personality.
Reading the beginning of The Giver one can hardly say that this is dystopian. The society of the Community where lives the main character, twelve years old boy Jonas seems to be rather utopian. People live in families, they care about young and old, they have strict rules to keep discipline, and these rules do not seem to be too strict to make people suffer as it was in some other dystopias. Every person in this society has his or her role or
At that Ceremony, Jonas found out that his role is very special. He is the Giver - the person who keeps memories of the society. When Jonas starts to learn from the previous Giver his role, the reader can see the differences between the current world and society in the book. People in Community does not distinguish colors, they have no music and no love. Their society is based on the rationality, elevated to absolute. Jonas discovers the disadvantages of such society when he found out that procedure of release, in fact, is euthanasia. Jonas becomes terrified because previously he had thought that all people who were released - old people, people who broke the laws of Community and too restless babies or twins - were just transferred to another