The Giver

The Giver
Lois Lowry’s The Giver “takes hardened young-adult reviewers by surprise” (Campbell 179). The novel explores everything, from what the residents professions are to who their life partners will be. The plot of The Giver “is particularly surprising because it is a major departure from the style and type of book we have come to expect from Lois Lowry” (Campbell 179). Up until the point at which Lowry wrote The Giver, her work consisted mostly of “contemporary novels with engaging characters that explore something very rare- a functional family” (Campbell 179). The dynamic character, Jonas, goes from blindly excepting his world to becoming a rebel who must escape from his utopian society.
Jonas’s utopia is secluded from the neighboring communities, which are referred to as “Elsewhere”. Jonas thought of “what lay in the far distance where he had never gone. The land didn’t end beyond those nearby communities. Were there hills Elsewhere” (106-...