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Le Passeur
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Read in 2005, this book has been responsible for my future enthusiasm for books! :)
The story is about Jonas, a young lad in a happy totalitarian society, where individuals are free from emotional strife and happiness is granted to all. Happiness, that is chemically induced ataraxia...
Every member has to take daily medication to rid themselves of emotion. They cannot see colour. And their parents are not their actual parents. And their elders are nowhere to be seen.
Now, when his time has come, Jonas is assigned a job unlike any other. He is to be instructed by The Giver, to become the next Receiver of Memories, the only depositary of all mankind's emotions and history.
Music to play along :
Jean Sibelius - Valse Triste
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Parmi les premières lectures marquantes.
L'histoire, c'est celle de Jonas, un jeune garçon dans une société où le bonheur est un acquis commun. Une société qui a su éradiquer l'émotion.
Chaque membre de la communauté suit un traitement contre les émotions. Ils ne voient pas en couleur. Et leurs parents ne sont pas leurs véritables parents.
Seulement, Jonas fait connaissance avec le passeur. L'unique dépositaire des émotions de l'humanité.
Support musical :
Jean Sibelius - Valse Triste
The story is about Jonas, a young lad in a happy totalitarian society, where individuals are free from emotional strife and happiness is granted to all. Happiness, that is chemically induced ataraxia...
Every member has to take daily medication to rid themselves of emotion. They cannot see colour. And their parents are not their actual parents. And their elders are nowhere to be seen.
Now, when his time has come, Jonas is assigned a job unlike any other. He is to be instructed by The Giver, to become the next Receiver of Memories, the only depositary of all mankind's emotions and history.
Music to play along :
Jean Sibelius - Valse Triste
-----------------------------------------
Parmi les premières lectures marquantes.
L'histoire, c'est celle de Jonas, un jeune garçon dans une société où le bonheur est un acquis commun. Une société qui a su éradiquer l'émotion.
Chaque membre de la communauté suit un traitement contre les émotions. Ils ne voient pas en couleur. Et leurs parents ne sont pas leurs véritables parents.
Seulement, Jonas fait connaissance avec le passeur. L'unique dépositaire des émotions de l'humanité.
Support musical :
Jean Sibelius - Valse Triste
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Reading Progress
Started Reading
January 1, 2005
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Finished Reading
February 18, 2018
– Shelved
July 2, 2018
– Shelved as:
utopia-dystopia
February 27, 2020
– Shelved as:
science-fiction
February 27, 2020
– Shelved as:
ideology
May 20, 2020
– Shelved as:
ya
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Jun 04, 2018 08:04AM
Boy, it's refreshing to see Lois Lowry's books making a big difference over in continental Europe. The conservative backlash against her writings in America is good enough reason for EVERY literate person to read The Giver!
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Hi Fergus, could you tell me more about what fosters this controversy in the US?
I just ordered it....thanks for review P.E.!
My pleasure, Jim! Please tell me about it when you're finished ! have a nice read with this one!
PE, my understanding is that some school boards in more conservative areas have banned it from their curriculums - the days of proscribed reading are far from over!
That's a shame... Is there a better way for kids to grow curious about reading than to allow them to read books raising controversial questions? I don't know if that is done everywhere but in my middle school, they would put a fair number of books on a table and let to pick your favourite as part of the literature course, how original and rewarding! :) How narrow-minded to ban a book because it deals with sensitive issues or calls for critical thinking :/
Agreed! Yet in my long life many have been the times when it was silenced. Inborn guilt bears monstrous progeny!
How lovely to be able to pinpoint a specific book for starting your love of literature!
The memory of caring French teachers & literature teachers in the secondary school help, Cecily ;)
I was also blessed with a truly wonderful, inspiriting, and encouraging literature teacher, too.
