The Giver

by Lois Lowry

The Giver: Genre 1 key example

Genre
Explanation and Analysis:

The Giver is a dystopian novel aimed at young adults. Dystopian fiction is a subgenre of speculative fiction in which the writer imagines a "dystopia" or "bad place" that is deeply corrupt and often authoritarian. The world is generally either imaginary or futuristic so as to highlight moral themes and ask what the world would be like were it to adopt or further pursue certain solutions to social problems.