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Title: When simple is too simple
Review: This book has generally been described as a book about a utopia, while we ignore the pressing issue: this book is a dystopia. Much more that a miscategorization, this book is generally poorly written. With little to no figurative language, how can we expect our children to learn to write while reading just the basics of language. Metaphors and irony make political commentaries good.There are also logical errors in her book. It does not follow that death and leaving the bounds of the community would have the same consequence, yet in The Giver, they do. There are much better books that offer much the same message of The Giver while using better language and better logic like Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, Anthem, and 1984. If we are looking to educate on a dystopia, any of those books would provide much more substance.
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