Friday, July 30, 2010
News
It is 2037. I am now a middle-aged woman, with signs of age evident on my face. It has been 33 years since I read the Giver. The story, it just cannot leave me. Never once has a book impacted me that much. I miss my life, the life I had before I was burdened by marriage and parenthood. Lost my beauty, my freedom, my everything.
The television, its my best friend now. I shall turn to my best friend again. I turned her on and she showed me a lady reporting the news. News I did not expect.
"Archaeologists have found evidence of a community that existed about one hundred years ago. They discovered a diary of a man reportedly named the Giver. ...."
I jumped up in shock. The Giver. He had existed before? The book Lois Lowry was nothing but a true story?
The next day, I hurried to the nearby newspaper stand to purchase a copy of newspapers.
NEW FINDINGS PROVE THAT LOIS LOWRY'S THE GIVER HAPPENED IN HISTORY.
This is a short extract from The Giver's diary.
Dear Diary,
I transmitted my favourite memory to Jonas today. However, instead of making him happy, have I harmed a child's fragile heart? Will he ever realise that this community will never be able to give him the warmth and love he just experienced? Will he notice that everybody in the Community do not understand love? Will he ever discover that his life, just like everybody else's is a lie the Elders have led them to believe? Diary, it troubles me so much. How can I ever change the this community? How can I tell them that there is so much more than... this?
This entry is filled with question marks, but I hope you understand, for I am at wit's end.
Love,
The Giver
Feelings I couldn't contemplate welled up in me.
It is all coming back to me now.
Murmur 12:46 AM.
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