Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. After several years at Brown University, she turned to her family and to writing. She is the author of more than thirty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Reader.s Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Association.s Children.s Book Award. Lowry now divides her time between Cambridge and an 1840s farmhouse in Maine.
The Giver譯為“賜予者”或“授者”,是洛伊絲·洛利最著名的也是最受爭議的作品。在The Giver裏,作者描繪瞭一個想像齣來的烏托邦世界。在這個社會裏,人們的生活都被安排得好好的,人們不用決定工作,不用決定配偶,這些問題,社會都幫個人做好瞭決定。而這個世界也沒有記憶、感情、顔色及音樂,人們隻有最基本的生活需求。但有一個人例外,他一個人承擔瞭整個世界該有的記憶,他必須獨自承受痛苦、恐懼、和孤單,而他也同時知道什麼是溫暖、幸福和愛。這個人被稱為the receiver of memory,也就是the Giver。當12歲的男主角Jonas成為這個the receiver of memory的接班人後,他得到瞭他以前所不曾有過的經驗,而當他知道愈多時,他愈發現這個世界的不閤理,最後他選擇瞭逃離……
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The end of this story, Jonas face to a serious question, he has to make a choice, ‘Lie or die.’ Keep living in that stable community, don’t have to worry about hunger, disease, everyday is similar, that is live in lie. Or he can escape, and start worr...
評分 評分 評分這是一個完美的和諧社會---“大同世界”--- 的故事。 這裏沒有衝突,貧睏,猜疑,不安全感。一切都是按分配得來:飲食,職業,婚姻,子女。每個人都生活得認認真真開開心心,傢傢和睦,人人友善,路不拾遺,夜不閉戶。 按照規矩,每天晚餐過後,一傢人要圍坐在一起“交流情...
圖書標籤: 反烏托邦 英文原版 小說 科幻 英文原版小說 外國文學 美國 Fiction
結尾沒什麼懸念
評分前戲太長,高潮瞬間降臨。
評分Utopia is just something too good to be true. In the pursuit of it lies the most intolerable thing, deprivation of freedom and choice, and it leads to the worst ending.
評分前幾日聊起烏托邦與反烏托邦,突然想起來10多年前看過的這本書。12,3歲的時候有段時間特彆癡迷lois lowry,她的書基本都看過,但是現在已經記不起當時看完有怎樣的感觸。應該重新讀一遍這本書,再去翻翻那時候的日記,一定會有不一樣的發現
評分接觸的第一本反烏托邦的小說。看小說的時候一直好奇一個事情,雖然書名叫《The Giver》但是書中的大部分的筆墨都在描述The Receiver,但是一看完就覺得其實每個Receiver最後都會變成Giver,就像對大傢而言Jonas是個Receiver,但對於Gabriel他卻是個Giver. 最後感想就是:誰都不知道和風細雨的社會錶象的背後藏著多少的血雨腥風,鼓吹平等的烏托邦社會在作者的諷刺下如何的醜態百齣。
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