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Title: Shameless hack of Orwell
Review: That's all there is. This book is nothing more than a watered-down kiddie version of 1984. It uses the same central theme--disallusionment of "the system", rebellion against "the system", and the ultimate breaking of the disallusioned.The story is slow (and painful, if you've read any other society-gone-to-hell pieces), the characters are bland. Heck, the only reason Jonas and the Giver are any bit interesting is that Lowry seems to have fashioned them off of Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi.
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