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The Giver (Graphic Novel)
by Lois Lowry
Reading is such an interpretive experience. We can read the same book and have different pictures in our minds of the world, characters, and the like. Literature adds another layer to that interpretation complexity. Some of the questions that surfaced for me while reading this book: Is Lowry using the setting in The Giver to take jabs, and perhaps even upper cut punches, towards society? If yes, which society has she chosen to target? Do connections arise between The Giver and Jonathon Swift’s A Modest Proposal essay, because both creators use the murder of infants to communicate a dire message?
Your reading experience of literature will be 100% different from mine; you may not even leave with questions after reading this piece of literature, but rather with more answers to questions that were in your mind prior to reading.
Onto the point— this graphic novel is faithful and it rocks!
This graphic novel’s illustrations do not overwhelm. Most importantly, the graphics in this work help add to readers’ imaginations that may have stemmed from the original novel. It maintained all literary elements. All questions I have plus more seem to be addressed in this graphic novel version as well.
With this final point in mind, reading the original book before the graphic novel would benefit. Reading each form alongside each other may also kindle an interesting experience.
Your reading experience of literature will be 100% different from mine; you may not even leave with questions after reading this piece of literature, but rather with more answers to questions that were in your mind prior to reading.
Onto the point— this graphic novel is faithful and it rocks!
This graphic novel’s illustrations do not overwhelm. Most importantly, the graphics in this work help add to readers’ imaginations that may have stemmed from the original novel. It maintained all literary elements. All questions I have plus more seem to be addressed in this graphic novel version as well.
With this final point in mind, reading the original book before the graphic novel would benefit. Reading each form alongside each other may also kindle an interesting experience.