Dystopian Community in Lois Lowry’s Novel The Giver
Dystopian Community in Lois Lowry’s Novel The Giver

Summary/Abstract: This article analyses how, as a dystopian novel, Lois Lowry’s The Giver depicts various kinds of abuse exercised by a totalitarian power over its citizens in order to transform them into a mass of pliable material and also how the book offers a way of liberation from oppression through the recovery of memory. In order to obtain total control over the bodies and minds of the people, the authority tries to keep the community in an eternal, colourless present, by employing different repressive techniques: reproductive control, prescribed social functions, strict routine, surveillance, indoctrination, suppression of human emotions, disruption of personal relations, manipulation of language and history, etc. The reconnection with the past allows dystopian citizens to regain their humanity and their future.

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