The Giver by Loris Lowry
The Giver By Loris Lowry Rating 4/5 Genres Dystopian future, Novel world. This is a very short read. My first thought after it ended is isn't there more to this? Because it somehow didn't feel complete. :/ The story is based in a utopia like society where the pain and suffering along with all negative emotions like boredom, hatred, dislike etc are eliminated carefully through ages - to be replaced with contentment, lack of hunger, lack of wanting adding monotony and an absence of color/passion/"life" itself into the mix. Gradually, two very specially psychically endowed people - one that calls himself 'the giver' and the other 'the receiver'(a kid called Jonas) discover it to be indeed very dystopian and make efforts to restore the past. The story ends on a note of hope and bright sunshine as Jonas and his brother Gabriel make it to the regular world outside the constructed world of utopia. I liked the world construction and the charact...