#the giver

[remusjohnslupin]

LITERATURE SERIES: Dystopia

“Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — for ever… And remember that it is for ever. The face will always be there to be stamped upon." ― George Orwell (1984)

#literatureedit #litedit #booksociety #booknet #thgedit #1984 #fahrenheit 451 #the hunger games #brave new world #litseries #the giver #a clockwork orange #the stand #stephen king #QUEUE. #1k

[stoat-party]

This exchange from The Giver still haunts me.

#the giver #lois lowry

[best-childhood-book]

#best childhood book #poll #the hobbit #the book thief #the giver #little women #charlotte’s web #eragon #his dark materials #the maze runner #where the sidewalk ends #miss peregrine’s home for peculiar children

[haveyoureadthisseries-poll]

#tumblr polls #the giver #lois lowry

[sunsetthedragon]

There is nothing more upsetting than being in a small fandom with very little fanart and having neither the artistic ability nor the materials to make your own.

#fear street #the giver #the giver quartet #fazbear frights #tales from the pizzaplex #what remains of edith finch #restart gordon korman #thirteen ghosts #haunting hour #I'm really outing myself as an enjoyer of niche fandoms #And in my second Tumblr post ever #I'm sure to get followers now

[papercranesandpride]

Can we talk about The Giver by Lois Lowry from the perspective of a loveless person?

I'm going to start with a passage that runs through my head all the time when I think about my lovelessness, because it resonates with me in pretty much the exact opposite way that it's supposed to.

"Do you love me?" There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then Father gave a little chuckle. "Jonas. You, of all people. Precision of language, please!" "What do you mean?" Jonas asked. Amusement was not at all what he had anticipated. "Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete," his mother explained carefully. Jonas stared at them. Meaningless? He had never before felt anything as meaningful as the memory. "And of course our community can't function smoothly if people don't use precise language. You could ask, 'Do you enjoy me?' The answer is 'Yes,'" his mother said. "Or," his father suggested, "'Do you take pride in my accomplishments?' And the answer is wholeheartedly 'Yes.'" "Do you understand why it's inappropriate to use a word like 'love'?" Mother asked. Jonas nodded. "Yes, thank you, I do," he replied slowly. It was his first lie to his parents

I agree with Jonas' parents here. You aren't supposed to agree with them, because they're expression the views of the average person in this dystopian society where love has been eliminated. You're supposed to think "wow, this is a really fucked up society if parents don't love their children." More importantly, you're supposed to think "wow, this is a really fucked up society if no one feels love at all." But I agree with them. "I enjoy you" is a vastly more correct and useful thing for me to say. I do wish people used more precise language instead of the term that's been diluted to meaninglessness. I would love a world where we say things like "I'm happier when I talk to you" or "it's cool to be able to say I know someone so talented" instead of "I love you." That's exactly what I'd like.

I just... As someone who grew up to be loveless, it scares me how much I loved this book as a kid. I grew up to be the kind of person this book views as missing an essential part of the human experience. Lois Lowry thinks that being like me is dystopic. It's not fun to realize that about a book I read over and over, and then read again in school as the first book I really, properly analyzed for English class. Some fundamental part of me was formed when I wrote my first very angsty fanfiction about it for a school project. And this book looks at me with revulsion.

Lois Lowry is just wrong. I used to feel love and then stopped feeling it (and I need to post about that sometime, because all the loveless people I see talk about never having felt love and so I want to voice my own experience). I don't think I'm missing out. I have no desire to get it back. To be clear, I don't think I'm better off without it, either. It's a neutral thing. Some people feel it, some people don't feel it, and neither group is worse off. I wasn't any happier with it than I am without it.

I don't really have a point, except just that it sucks that the whole origin point of the teen dystopia craze that formed all of YA during my peak YA-reading years sees lovelessness as bad. But you know. Of course it does. So does the rest of the culture.

#loveless aplatonic #loveless apl #loveless aromantic #loveless aro #loveless #the giver

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

#the giver #lois lowry #young adult #dystopian #book poll #have you read this book poll #polls

[toss-a-coin-to-your-stan-account]

just remembered the time in my high school science fiction class where we were put in groups and had to figure out what a utopian society would look like for us and that across the room I could hear one of the students in the other group bragging that in his utopia the elderly and disabled and anyone who couldn't contribute to his idea of a utopia would be left in a deserted area to fend for themselves. the project was part of a lesson on utopia vs dystopia and was fucking leading up to us reading. The Giver. The Fucking Giver. the irony cannot be clearer and also I hope he's miserable.

#got reminded by the last post i rbed but its a hopeful/positive post so im not talking about it on there #mine #ableism #the giver #how did you be asked to create a utopia before reading 'the giver' and #1. speedrun right into making fascism #2. prove the point of the fucking giver #fuck you h***** fuck you to hell

[dumblr]

If you are a giver please learn your limits because the takers don't have any.

#quotes #feelings #emotions #facts #the giver #soul taker #limits #wise words #be wise #be careful #thoughtful #life quotes #lessons learned #dumblr

[chaosandstardust]

I will never understand filmmakers who claim to love the source material of something and then completely gut it of all of its charm, significantly changing the characters, oftentimes taking the entire story well outside the realm of it’s source material, before slapping the name of the thing on the title and insisting that they’re the same story and that they love the original

JUST WRITE SOMETHING ORIGINAL OR FIND A STORY THAT YOU ACTUALLY LIKE

#yes this is about THAT Persuasion interview #stay away from pride and prejudice! #persuasion 2022 #persuasion #netflix persuasion #but this is also about so many other terrible adaptations that gut beloved books #percy jackson #the dark tower #paper towns #the giver #beautiful creatures #eragon #the lonely bones #vampire academy #and the list goes on and on and on

[artificial-librarian]

#ray bradbury #fahrenheit 451 #do androids dream of electric sheep #philip k. dick #1984 #george orwell #a brave new world #aldous huxley #suzanne collins #the hunger games #the giver #lois lowry #dune #frank herbert

[haveyoureadthisfantasybook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#fantasy #books #The Giver #Lois Lowry #poll #result: yes #l: English

[lemonswrite-sing]

Nah but who was going to tell me?!

#brenton thwaites #dick grayson #dc titans #titans #nightwing #henry turner #pirates of the caribbean #pirates of the carribean: dead men tell no tales #jonas the giver #the giver #jonas #prince philip #maleficent #same actor

[redheartstollen]

~ "The Giver" by L. Lowry

#quotes #poetry #classic literature #life #love #book quotes #the giver #writers and poets #aesthetic

[sidewalkdaydreams]

Going thru a “obsessed with the classics, dystopian and fantasy novels of my childhood” phase. Gosh i just love stories. Books are everything.

#classic literature #dystopian #chronicles of narnia #frankenstein #the giver #anne of green gables #the mistmantle chronicles