Part 1

The author of “The Giver” is Lois Lowry. Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937. Lois
Lowry was born in Pennsylvania. While raising her children, Lowry completed her degree in
English literature at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, Maine, in 1972. Lois Lowry
lives in Maine. She won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 12 million copies
worldwide. A 2012 survey by School Library Journal designated it as the fourth-best children's
novel of all time. She is the author of several books for children and young adults, including The
Giver Quartet, Number the Stars, and Rabble Starkey. The Illustrator of “the Giver” is Bagram
Ibatoulline. Bagram Ibatoulline has illustrated many acclaimed books for children, including THE
MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE, HANA IN THE TIME OF TULIPS, and GREAT JOY.
The publisher for “The Giver” is Houghton Mifflin. The copyright date of the book is 1993.

With no specific time and a focus on the present, The Giver is set in an unspecified
future. The Community is where The Giver takes place in the future. As The Giver progresses,
the tone of the book shifts. As we discover more about Jonas and the society he lives in, the
atmosphere is initially calm, secure, and even humorous. In The Giver, Lowry describes a
utopian society—the ideal world as imagined by its founders. It has eradicated the things that
most of us would like to see disappear from our own society: fear, pain, hunger, ailment, strife,
and hatred.

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