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Book Review
In her book review of Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Natalie Jackson focuses on the main character’s dilemma, or problem.
Better Safe Than Sorry?
Beginning:
The opening sets the scene and states the focus (underlined). Imagine a “safe” world with no muggings, stealing, or war. Would you like to live there? What if this place didn’t let you make your own choices? Would you still be interested? In Lois Lowry’s science-fiction novel The Giver, Jonas lives in such a place. He is quite satisfied with his life until he meets the Giver, and then everything changes.