Today I am going to talk about:
THE GIVER MOVIE COMMERCIAL
I know that many of you have read the wonderfully sad book The Giver by Lois Lowry for school, but for those of you who haven't encountered it yet, this is the summary:
December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve year old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for something special. When his selection leads him to an unnamed man -the man called only the Giver -he begins to sense the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world.
Told with deceptive simplicity, this is the provocative story of a boy who experiences something incredible and undertakes something impossible. In the telling it questions every value we have taken for granted and reexamines our most deeply held beliefs.
Like every dystopian novel, this book has a society that looks good on the outside, but on the inside it is broken. I read it first in Middle School and loved it, but it has mostly been forgotten by my mind (one instance it came back was when I read Son, the last book in the series).
I was shocked and excited to find out that they were going to make a movie about this amazing book, and even more excited when I saw names like Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep in the cast list! I know for sure that this is something that I would like to know about, so I'm sharing it with you here. :)
I'm going to have to find and re-read this now.
Well, that's all for now!
See you in the next one!
~Sea-Solo
EXTRA! EXTRA!
Listen to the first chapter of The Giver by Lois Lowry!
December is the time of the annual Ceremony at which each twelve year old receives a life assignment determined by the Elders. Jonas watches his friend Fiona named Caretaker of the Old and his cheerful pal Asher labeled the Assistant Director of Recreation. But Jonas has been chosen for something special. When his selection leads him to an unnamed man -the man called only the Giver -he begins to sense the dark secrets that underlie the fragile perfection of his world.
Told with deceptive simplicity, this is the provocative story of a boy who experiences something incredible and undertakes something impossible. In the telling it questions every value we have taken for granted and reexamines our most deeply held beliefs.
Like every dystopian novel, this book has a society that looks good on the outside, but on the inside it is broken. I read it first in Middle School and loved it, but it has mostly been forgotten by my mind (one instance it came back was when I read Son, the last book in the series).
I was shocked and excited to find out that they were going to make a movie about this amazing book, and even more excited when I saw names like Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep in the cast list! I know for sure that this is something that I would like to know about, so I'm sharing it with you here. :)
I'm going to have to find and re-read this now.
Well, that's all for now!
See you in the next one!
~Sea-Solo
EXTRA! EXTRA!
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