书籍介绍
本书是一部科幻小说，描写的故事发生在一个乌托邦世界里。在这个世界里一切事情都在控制之中．人们安居乐业，衣食无忧，也没有战争或痛苦的感觉．大家所要做的事情早在一开始就被确定好，没有改变的可能。孩子们都在规定好的统一模式里长大。当12岁的乔纳思成为新任的“记忆传授人”之后，他却陡然发现支撑这个社会的不过是谎言于是他决定要改变一切……这是一本颇富创意、鼓励青少年自主思考与行动的优秀少年读物。
AI导读
核心看点
- 反乌托邦设定，探讨无痛社会代价
- 少年觉醒，揭开完美社区谎言真相
- 纽伯瑞金奖作品，引发深度思考
适合谁读
- 青少年及初高中学生群体
- 反乌托邦与科幻文学爱好者
- 关注教育与社会规训的读者
读前提醒
- 前期铺垫较多，需耐心阅读
- 结局开放留白，引发多元解读
- 色调压抑，做好心理准备
读者共识
- 设定精巧，被誉为儿童版一九八四
- 结局评价两极，有人嫌虎头蛇尾
- 深刻揭示痛苦与智慧并存真理
本导读基于书籍简介、目录、原文摘录、短评和书评生成，不等同于全文精读。
精彩摘录
- "He remembered when hiss family received lily, the day she was named, the day that she had become a one."
- "A committee was studying the idea. When something went to a committee for study, the people always joked about it. Rules were very hard to change. Sometimes, if it was a very important rule, it would have to go, eventually, to The Receiver for a decision. The Receiver was the most important Elder."
- ""I think newchildren are so cute," Lily sighed. "I hope I get assigned to be a Birthmother." "Lily!" Mother spoke very sharply. "Don't say that. There's very little honor in that Assignment." "Three years," Mother told her firmly. "Three births, and that's all. After that they are Laborers for the r"
- "There was never any confortable ay to mention or discuss one's success without breaking the rule against bragging, even if one didn't mean to. It was a minor rule, rather like rudeness, punishable only by gentle chastisement."
- "It was the sort of thing one didn't ask a friend about because it might have fallen into that uncomfortable category of "being different." Asher took a pill each morning; Jonas did not. Always better, less rude, to talk about things that were the same."
- "The entire community had performed the Ceremony of Loss together, murmuring the neme Caleb throughout and entire day, less and less frequently, fofter in volume, as the long and somber day went on, so that the little Four seemed to fade away gradually from everyone's consciousness. Now, at this spec"
- ""Asher," she said, "Thank you for your childhood.""
- "The Giver sighed. "You're right," he said. "But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want that. And that's the real reason The Receiver is so vital to them, and so honored. They selected me---and you---to lift that burden from themselves.""
作者简介
洛伊丝·劳里，1937年3月出生于夏威夷，父亲在军中担任牙医，他们一家人也随着军队迁移世界各地。二次大战期间，她住在外祖父母位于宾州的老家，十一岁到上高中之前，则在日本度过。后来她进布朗大学就读，但只修完两年课程便结婚了，直到生完四个孩子后才重拾学业，从南缅因大学毕业。洛伊丝·劳里的写作生涯起步较晚，四十岁时才尝试完成小时候的梦想——当一名作家。结果却一鸣惊人，如今她不但是世界知名的作家，还获得两次纽伯瑞金牌奖的肯定。除了写作儿童小说、短篇故事，她也撰写评论、专业的论文。
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