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……
這是一個貌似和諧的理想社會,沒有戰爭,沒有不公,沒有強權,人口穩定,衣食無憂,就業不愁,少有育嬰所,老有養老院,中間的不怕討不到老婆——組織分配包你滿意,懶姑娘也不怕找不著工作——birthmothers歡迎你……這裏也有友誼,也有義務,也有責任,更有無上的榮譽,這裏...
評分"The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." Various memories is filling our daily life. They could be gotten by experience or listening. And what is the exactly meaning of memories? ...
評分書寫給兒童的,語言簡單,適閤入門。 書中無非兩個世界,一個黑白,一個彩色。黑白世界井然有序,大傢各司其職,沒有衝突沒有戰爭,但人性被最大程度地壓抑。彩色世界充滿人性充滿選擇,但同時還存在人性的陰暗麵。 看完後,大傢做個選擇吧?其實這就是密爾的經典問題:“寜願...
評分結尾?
评分兒童讀物。。。隻可惜當我還是個兒童的時候沒讀過
评分還是兒童讀物比較有耐心讀完
评分天下文章一大抄
评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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