The Giver is a book I have loved since elementary school. Something about it’s message has stuck with me since that first reading and since then this has been my all time favorite book.
The Giver by Lois Lowry is a dystopian classic that centers around the idea of living in a world where your environment is completely controlled and your freedom of choice is completely taken away from you. In this world there is no color, you cannot lie, and you must have precision of language. It is the ultimate show of how order can be taken to an extreme and how meaningless life would be if you couldn’t choose a path of your own.
Most of all what resonates inside me when I read this novel is how important our emotion is. We need emotion, all emotion. We need to feel in order have compassion. We need to celebrate and we need to mourn. We need connection and happiness. Without emotion and free choice life quite literally would be colorless and mostly pointless. To live a life in coldness is to turn away from what makes us human and The Giver was the catalyst to teach me these things as a young kid.
Every year I reread this book to remind myself of the values that I find important. To remember the beauty of compassion. However, most importantly, to relive the innocence of my thoughts when I first read this story. Young me was appalled at memories of war and pain. However, young me also understood that understanding and empathy for how others feel when they loose someone is important and necessary. Reading this book always made me want to be a little bit kinder everyday.
I love The Giver and I hope to read this book once a year for the rest of my days.
Thanks for reading! What book do you reread often?
-Till next time!
The Book Raven 
I loved this book as a child. I recently watched the movie and decided I need to read it again soon.
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The movie is fabulous! I loved it! I hope you do read it again. It is a wonderful story.
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Great cast! I remember loving the book so much more though. 🙂
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I read the book when I was younger. When the movie came out, I watched it with my husband. It inspired me to re-read the book, and finally read the others in that series. The book I re-read at least once a year is The Great Gatsby!
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The Great Gatsby is a wonderful book! I enjoyed reading it a lot in high school!
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The Giver has been on my TBR list for ages, but you have inspired me to bump it up to the top! It sounds very powerful, I can’t wait to read it. Usually, I will only read a book once – this post has got me thinking about revisiting some old favourites!
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There are a lot of books I only read once, but there are a few favorites that I love to come back to from time to time. The Giver is the only must read for me every year.
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I LOVE his books! Have you read Gathering Blue?
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No not yet! But hopefully I can get a copy of it eventually I’ve wanted to rea all her books for quite some time now!
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This book began my love of dystopias before I even knew what they were!
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Same here! I just love it so much!
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This book is still one of my favorite books even as an adult! I find simplicity really beautiful, and this book delivered its message without needing to be too wordy. Awesome review! 😀
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It is really simple and lovely! I guess that’s another reason for me to love it!
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