1 00:00:00,430 --> 00:00:05,190 As I promised in the first video, in this second video I will be talking about one of 2 00:00:05,190 --> 00:00:10,410 my favorite novels of all time and one of my favorite dystopian novels as well, which 3 00:00:10,410 --> 00:00:12,390 is The Giver by Lois Lowry. 4 00:00:12,710 --> 00:00:20,329 This novel tells the story of a dystopian society by following around the protagonist. 5 00:00:20,690 --> 00:00:26,809 So the main character, his name is Jonas and he's a 12-year-old boy and you basically see 6 00:00:26,809 --> 00:00:32,250 his life in this society, and you figure out things about this society as Jonas figures them 7 00:00:32,250 --> 00:00:39,030 out as well. In general, the society in which Jonas lives is one that tried to get rid of pain and 8 00:00:39,030 --> 00:00:43,530 suffering. So they were trying to get rid of pain and suffering by using a thing that they call 9 00:00:43,530 --> 00:00:49,130 sameness. So what they do is they take away all difference. You don't, no one in the society has 10 00:00:49,130 --> 00:00:54,689 any choices, so their jobs are assigned, their partners, you know, their husbands or wives 11 00:00:54,689 --> 00:01:01,030 are assigned they're assigned children so they don't have children naturally there are no emotions 12 00:01:01,030 --> 00:01:07,969 they take pills so that they don't feel hatred envy annoyance or any positive emotions they 13 00:01:07,969 --> 00:01:14,590 also don't feel love or fondness or anything like that and they even live in a world that is black 14 00:01:14,590 --> 00:01:19,750 and white so there's no color at all either there's just no difference at all I think that 15 00:01:19,750 --> 00:01:26,090 as a society they were originally trying to take away difference for a good reason but there are 16 00:01:26,090 --> 00:01:31,230 a lot of problems that come with taking away that difference and I won't spoil anything but 17 00:01:31,230 --> 00:01:38,250 the novel really gets into the things that the society is missing out on because they have 18 00:01:38,250 --> 00:01:45,030 sameness and they're living with this sameness. In terms of why I like it other than the reasons 19 00:01:45,030 --> 00:01:50,849 that I like every dystopian novel. I really like that the language isn't too complex or 20 00:01:50,849 --> 00:01:59,409 difficult to read. So I first read The Giver when I was 11 or 12 years old. And I most 21 00:01:59,409 --> 00:02:07,290 recently read it a year ago when I was 23, probably. And the ideas are complex, but the 22 00:02:07,290 --> 00:02:12,370 language itself is also really accessible. It's really easy to read and understand, which 23 00:02:12,370 --> 00:02:17,330 I really like and I've gotten a different perspective out of it every time that I've 24 00:02:17,330 --> 00:02:22,650 read it which I think is really cool as a novel that you can have different realizations and 25 00:02:22,650 --> 00:02:28,729 understandings the more times you read it so I really really enjoy that if you are interested 26 00:02:28,729 --> 00:02:33,569 I would really recommend reading the book there is also a movie that I think is on Netflix 27 00:02:33,569 --> 00:02:40,449 which I would recommend watching after reading the book they change a few big things from the book 28 00:02:40,449 --> 00:02:48,789 from the original story and I do have some personal uh some personal issues with some of 29 00:02:48,789 --> 00:02:53,389 the big things that they change but I think it's really interesting to read the novel and then 30 00:02:53,389 --> 00:02:59,430 watch the movie to see how the writers of the movie and the directors of the movie tried to 31 00:02:59,430 --> 00:03:04,810 represent the book and to maybe think about ways that they were successful in representing the book 32 00:03:04,810 --> 00:03:09,289 and the ideas and the moral of that original story 33 00:03:09,289 --> 00:03:11,289 and maybe ways that they were less successful 34 00:03:11,289 --> 00:03:13,370 in their interpretation of it. 35 00:03:13,550 --> 00:03:15,669 So yes, that is one of my favorite novels 36 00:03:15,669 --> 00:03:17,250 and I really, really recommend it.