The Giver by Lois Lowry

The Giver, Book review

"The Giver" by: Lois Lowry has been challenged my multiple schools, libraries, and regions. The book being challenged for the mention of suicide and not saying its a wrong thing and not the right way to end your live. As well as Twins being illegal and one must be eliminated. Although the giver is being challenged for reasonable mentioning, I personally do not agree with that, the book is a grate discussion piece for the students or book clubs to talk about. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, a middle school book should have never been challenged to be banned, there are school officials that both agree and disagree with me.

"The Giver" has been challenged for understandable reasons. First off, the book reached No. 11 on the American Library Association's list of most challenged books of the 1990s. In addition to this information, "In the Denver-area case, Mark S. Hanson argued the book," Mr.Hanson does not like the fact that his 11 year old daughter was reading the "The Giver" in her class, when she brought up the book and how they would talk about suicide, and twins would be illegal.This is yet one concern but the book brings up questions that children would normally not think of, so it's a grate way to bring up question that are needed to be discussed.For example, "South Carolina school librarian Pat Scales agreed the ending is ambiguous, but she thinks the book helps students raise questions about the costs of a controlled life and better appreciate their democratic society.Scales said the book gives students a way to talk about difficult topics already openly discussed in the media. She believes the book is best suited for middle school students, but admitted not every child will be ready for its topics at the same time.'If we waited for every kid to be ready, we'd be the same kind of world Jonas is in," said Scales, the library director at the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities in Greenville, S.C." Mrs. Scales agree with my thoughts on the book, she thinks the book brings up the discussion points of that book that are being talked about in our life right now.

All of the following where given as reasons for the book to be banned: Suicide as a way out of live, all follower and no leaders, having to grow up at a regulated speed and no excelling, everything is neutral colors. First, Suicide is a bad subject to be discussed but the book does bring up questions that are need to be asked in our generation, the book does not say that suicide is the wrong way to leave, but when you discus that with your teacher or fellow class mates is when you find it to be a bad thing and then you have questions which helps the child mind grow.If you keep a child shelter from everything i that can possibly go wrong, then you start to think, "Oh my gosh, what is going to happen