CliffsNotes on Lowry's The Giver: Literature Notes

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CliffsNotes on Lowry's The Giver explores a world in which disease, hunger, poverty, war, and lasting pain simply don't exist. The members of this utopia have given up all human emotions and memories to live in a state of Sameness.

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