The Giver
The Giver by Lois Lowry is a Newbery Award winner, was and is unfairly banned from many elementary schools because this book provokes thoughts which people are not ready to deal with. Imagine living in a world of delusion with nothing to set you apart from any other person. Where weather does not change and colors do not exist. Where feeling get masked and differences in views were punished. This is a world in which a twelve-year old boy, Jonah, lived in and soon changed for himself. This book was banned from many elementary schools because many parents felt that this book was “ …putting thoughts into a young child’s life that he/she are simply not ready to deal with at eleven or twelve years of age�. This was a specific complaint of one of the parents who felt that this book was too strong for young readers. Another argument presented by a number of parents in 1995, was that the book discussed “infanticide and sexual awakening.� Yet, anot
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Approximate Word count = 651
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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