The Giver

[Manifesto]

Does that book "The Giver" by Lois Lowry try to find a way to show Communism gone bad?

[redSHARP]

not directly, it was more of a general attack against" 1984" type of governments. generally coupled with basic American propaganda, the kids reading it would connect it with communism and fascism. personally, when looked at logically, that country wasn't that bad.:lol:

[Manifesto]

The fascist part of it was really the worst of it, I mean everybody was white, only one person there had red hair and if anybody had a defect they were were executed.

[Manifesto]

And wasn't it a community or something? Which I think was a way to relate it more to Communism.

[#FF0000]

The Giver has nothing to do with communism at all.

[Manifesto]

I mean like to Right-wing Americans that don't really know what it is.

[#FF0000]

I mean like to Right-wing Americans that don't really know what it is.

Well, yeah. Any book about a dystopic society is either perceived to be about communism or corporatism. But The Giver has literally nothing to do with communism. It was just some sort of bizarre oligarchy.

[Manifesto]

It was just some sort of bizarre oligarchy.
It was kinda fascist.

[Communist Theory]

I had to read it in 7th grade.
I only remember there wasn't any color or something but that kid started to see in color.

[Manifesto]

I had to read it in 7th grade.
I only remember there wasn't any color or something but that kid started to see in color.
Yeah the scientists genetically engineered everybody to where they can't see in color or have any emotions

[Andrei Kuznetsov]

Oh God, I forgot about that book. What a chore to read THAT was.

I always saw it as an anti-communist novel, but I'm not going to put words in Lowry's mouth. She did ONE good kid's book though, Number The Stars, about the Danish resistance during WWII.

[LOLseph Stalin]

I hated this book. I had to read it for grade 9 English. Considering I read it back when I was quite apolitical I can't really give a political perspective on it, but I can say it's not even worth reading. Now that I look back though it does seem very totalitarian. The families were created by the state. They were told who to marry, which children they could have, and even which careers they could have.

[Jack]

The Giver is my favorite book ever.

It's more akin to the story Harrison Bergeron (I think by Kurt Vonnogut) that talks about enforced equality, but that of outcome, not economic status. Everyone has the nessecities, which can be called Communist, but the authoritarian control, and forced equality of outcome and material possesions makes it not so.

[Code]

LOL

Summary of this thread;
Is the giver communist
No
I Hate it
I hate it
I hate it
It's my FAVORITE!


Personally I quite disliked it

[redSHARP]

it was cute for what it was. but i think it was anti-authoritarian (referring to hitler and stalin), with a hint of Huxley thrown in.:lol:

[Agrippa]

I think the reason children in elementary school are forced to read The Giver is so they don't read 1984, We, and A Brave New World instead...

[Andrei Kuznetsov]

I think everyone should check out "The Giver" on Goatse... he's a lot more entertaining and impressive than Lowry's book.

[thecoffeecake1]

the giver was just another republican garbage attempt at trashing communism. shitty book too

[Jack]

the giver was just another republican garbage attempt at trashing communism. shitty book too

Fail post is fail; Lowry's obvious liberalism is obvious.