The Giver is a 1993 young adult dystopian novel written by American author Lois Lowry, and it is set in a society which at first appears to be utopian but revealed to be dystopian as the story progresses.

Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft had overflown the community twice. He had …

Not until his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind this fragile community. Twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until his life...

The Giver: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Brenton Thwaites, Jeff Bridges, Meryl Streep, Alexander Skarsgård. In a seemingly perfect community without war, pain, suffering, differences, or choices, a …

A short summary of Lois Lowry's The Giver. This free synopsis covers all the crucial plot points of The Giver.

Apr 26, 1993 · 'The Giver' serves as a cautionary tale to the human race, warning of what can become when we censor our very emotions and blot out all of the differences that make us unique individuals.

Based on the beloved young adult novel. A young man (Brenton Thwaites), who lives in a seemingly ideal world, must escape after discovering the deadly truths of his community’s secret past. Stream …

In Lois Lowry’s Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark …

Jonas begins training under the present Receiver of Memory, an older man whom Jonas calls The Giver. The Giver lives alone in private rooms that are lined with shelves full of books.

Lowry’s second Newbery came in 1994, for The Giver (1993), a novel about a futuristic world without social ills and a 12-year-old boy who questions his seemingly perfect society.