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📚 On Legacy: In the Context of Lowry's The Giver

What The Giver can teach us about the fine line between caste systems and functioning families.

Eleanor Konik
Nov 09, 2022
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The Giver is many things, but in some very important ways it is the story about what you give up when you orient a society around mass producing families instead of letting them happen organically. To me it's always been a story about the dangers of specialization, and the importance of a society that values fuzzy emotions instead of pure rationality.

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