#the giver quartet

[sunsetthedragon]

There is nothing more upsetting than being in a small fandom with very little fanart and having neither the artistic ability nor the materials to make your own.

[magdalenepie]

giver fandom... r u alive pls pls i am blessing u all with my design of leader jonas

[wilhelmina-murray-harker]

something that like fundamentally changed me in about fifth grade or so was the naming system lois lowry used in "gathering blue" where a syllable gets added to your name the older you get

the main character is named kira, but when there's flashbacks and people address younger her, her name is kir. the oldest character we meet is named annabella, and kira talks about how impressive it is to have a four syllable name. pretty much all of the adults have three syllable names

i think about it a lot. i have so many questions about the practicality of it. i think it's so cool

[valeovalairs]

Since fifth grade when I first read son, I always thought it was so fascinating and that it’d be cool if it had a comic so I got drawing

And then about three years ago I redrew the opening scenes

And here’s the most recent addition

[cantheywinthehungergames]

Submitted anonymously

Tribute Name: Jonas

Age: ~12 (book), 18 (film adaptation)

Restrictions: None

If you would like to see your favorite character either as a tribute or as a mentor, please fill out this Google Form. Just keep in mind that for mentor polls, they will be posted every Saturday so chances are it could take a long time before they are posted.

Please also look at my pinned post for submission rules as well as a list of previously submitted characters prior to submitting your character.

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Silly Game Time: Are you a fan of the post-apocalyptic genre? If so, what's a post-apocalyptic story you really like, and why? (movie, show, book, game, etc.) (could also be blended with any other genre)

THE GIVER QUARTET

The only dystopian novel series ever

A town without color, memory, or agency

A town without justice, freedom, or truth

A town stripped of its love by the pollution of greed

A town locked away where there is no escape

These are the four towns of The Giver Quartet. A boy escapes the first with a baby condemned to death. A girl vows to rewrite the second to save those who barely care for her. Another boy makes a dangerous journey to end all the world’s suffering and save his town. And a woman leaves all she knew behind in search of the one person she never got to know

I freaking love this novel series. And yes, it’s implied to be post-apocalyptic

Second-fave is Adventure Time tho :3

[yveni]

WAIT NO CAUSE WAIT

THERE’S NO WAY MESSENGER BY LOIS LOWRY ENDED LIKE THAT I’M LITERALLY SOBBING AT AIRPORT RIGHT NOW

[12bleupwhat12]

I always forget people usually don’t headcanon Kira as POC (I hc her as half Indonesian) so I always get white girl jumpscared :’0

[sage-green-kitchen]

Unpopular opinion: Messenger is my favorite book in The Giver Quartet

[adaptations-polls]

Which version of this do you prefer?

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Messenger by Lois Lowry

"Hello? Magic forest thing, please don't kill me as I walk through you."

[sunsetthedragon]

I love the significance of Jonas/Kira and Claire/Einar. In both cases it’s a relationship between someone from the Community and someone who is physically disabled. Jonas and Claire leave the Community that emphasizes “sameness” and both fall in love with someone that not only wouldn’t have been allowed to live in the Community, but would have been killed for existed there. And Kira and Einar have such big roles in showing Jonas and Claire what the world outside of the Community is like.

Also the fact that it happens twice in the series just shows these kind of relationships are good and common. It shows that the Community was wrong.

[valeovalairs]

giver quartet fandom what if I said I had drawings

[ikementally-deficient]

Someone was never exposed to Monica Hughes or Madeleine L'engle or Lois Lowry as a kid and it shows.

There are some things that cannot and should not be considered art. Art needs to have meaning and depth. “Middle grade” books and other pieces of media made for or about kids and teenagers simply don’t have the same capacity for deeper meaning. I think it’s fine for adults to consume pieces of media like that ocassionally, but it’s like reading Fanfiction or eating junk food; it has no real value, and it’s self-indulgent in way that is detrimental. Read what you want, but don’t pretend that middle grade or young adult is great literature, or that the people who make them are somehow creating art. It’s that sort of mindset that breeds “writers” like John Green and Becky Albertalli.

I contemplated simply blocking you over this but in the end decided to use your extremely pretentious ask to announce my appreciation of and respect for kid lit and especially middle grade lit. Literature for kids is some of the most important you can ever write, because these are the stories that can make a lifelong reader or turn someone away from literature completely. That anyone could look at books like the Chronicles of Narnia, His Dark Materials, Esperanza Rising, Walk Two Moons, Monster, The Watsons Go to Birmingham, anything by Kate DiCamillo, The House on Mango Street--and hundreds more--and say "there's no art there" just proves that any enjoyment you get from reading lies only in seeming intellectual to others and reveling in that perceived intellectualism, rather than engaging with a writer's creation. It's also overwhelmingly sad. In my experience, the adults that look down on kid literature--despite it being these very books that made them love reading in the first place--tend to be incapable of finding joy in the smaller aspects of life, or in any piece of art that isn't critically acclaimed so they have some proof that their taste is better than other people's.

[kitkat-the-muffin]

Today in the library I found a graphic novel reimagining of The Giver

I took photos of two pages that were important to me when I first read the original book:

The first is when Jonas realized that not only was he living in a dystopia but he needed to save Gabe from the death that dystopia wished on him

The second is just something that stuck with me throughout the seven years since I’ve last read this book. Its portrayal in this comic hurt me emotionally, and I love how that affected me so

I hope I find the time to go back to the library and read the whole thing

[12bleupwhat12]

idk if anyone even cares about The Giver Quartet books but I WROTE A FANFIC YIPPEEEE READ IT IF U WANT