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The Giver  by  Lois Lowry

This book is dedicated as follows:

"For all the children  
To whom we entrust the future"

"The Giver" by Lois Lowry -- an asexual feminist advocating an engineered neutered society

Psychological contrivance and deception has been raised to a fine art by the author of this book. It is so deceptive that it has won many awards from supposedly intelligent and responsible organizations.

A Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor Award

An American Library Association
Best Book for Young Adults

An American Library Association
Notable Book for Children

Winner of the Regina Medal
Booklist Editors Choice

A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year

Responsible people, responsible organizations? Only if one considers service to Lucifer as being responsible. This horrendous book could be used in graduate schools as a study of what can go wrong in a godless and dispassionate feminist meticulously controlled self-centered society. The book is about a utopian mind controlled monochrome –(literally colorless / gray scale / colorblind – it is not stated how this is accomplished as science is only alluded to)– essentially stagnant flatland society that has been thoroughly brainwashed. It is a feministic version of "The Brave New World" that exists without a history or more than an immediate future. It is rule oriented, governed, and adjudicated by women. The only utilization of sex is by birth mothers who will be pampered for three years while in some unexplained fashion (this is a chemically neutered society) they become pregnant (a word not used) and have three children. After that time they serve as laborers, the societies lowest class, until they reach old age. Pregnancy is accepted as necessary but held as a position with very low esteem.

Only specially selected males and females are allowed to enter what is loosely called a marriage. The marriage is without sexual activity and the couple serve as rearing parents for one male and one female child after which they live in a separate environment for childless couples until old age. The Giver is definitely not for reading by those who are below 20 years of age. Yet, it is being promoted for use in both public and parochial grammar schools.

Deceptively, this book is presented as fictional. In reality it is being used to prepare children – not yet able to comprehend the nature of life – for an age when parents do not raise or even know their own children; an age when all sex hormones and sexual feelings are suppressed; an age when crying too much as a newchild (infant), a mistake, or more than two minor infractions of law warrants being released (the death penalty); an age when one is killed and disposed of like garbage for being the smaller of two identical twins. For the first year of life a newchild is kept depersonalized by not giving it a name.

In the utopian society described in this book even personal feelings must be subjected to scrutiny. All aspects of life are organized and controlled. Little freedom exists in this community with set boundaries and curfews. Interactions between males and females are organized in a fashion that helps neutralize (neuterize) sexual instincts, feelings, activities, and associations from early maturity until the beginning of old age.

The community structure is considered so important that there can be no satisfactory escape from this female controlled commune. In the conclusion the young adolescent male – the receiver of memories, who escapes with a small male child scheduled to be euthanized for disturbing the peace by crying during the night – and the toddler sink into oblivion, life fades into non-existence. It is unthinkable that males could escape and survive. The message is that it would be foolish for one to try. This godless feminist mind can allow for no happy conclusion for the unforgivable crime of escape.

While a high percentage of children, adolescents, and adults have been desensitized by media to all kinds of evil, there are still those who understand the origins of evil. It should be seen as a criminal act for this book to be presented for or made required reading for anyone under the age of twenty – thirty would be even better as this would give individuals an opportunity to establish a relationship with life that can be considered reasonably stable. Life experience is not only important but is necessary to facilitate the proper construction of value systems.

This book is a product of one who believes that the world/universe is over populated. It is written by someone who has no concept of the possibilities of science; no recognition of the effects of long term selfish world interests; no realization of the damaging effects brought about by atheistic and masonic manipulation of environment and lifestyle based solely upon this life; no concept that thought control is against the nature of our being and therefore will never work. As an opinion, this book was written by a psychologically, if not physically, sterilized woman who has either lost, or never had a bond of affection for anyone in this life or in the next; she presents the characteristics of an unloved or dehumanized personage.

One credit in the front of the book by the School Library Journal gives an excellent example of a deceptive half truth when it states:

"This tightly plotted story and its believable characters
will stay with readers a long time."

What is not said is that it will give many children and young adults who read it nightmares for days and even weeks to come; that the books readers will be ingrained with concepts that will warp their minds possibly for the rest of their lives. (One twenty-one year old woman reported having nightmares for two weeks after reading this book.) Evils of the highest order are etched into the book and yet church leaders, government officials, educators and parents have themselves fallen so far from the grace of God that the vast majority of them apparently do not understand the destruction of minds taking place in this book through what can only be called "double speak."

    DOUBLE SPEAK:

    • Don't call it a baby, call it a fetus; then the mother can be convinced that it isn't yet alive. Abortion then becomes an acceptable answer. It is difficult to convince a mother to have her baby murdered.
    • Not baby but "Newchild;"  Euthanizing a something that is only a newchild seems more palatable!
    • Present indoctrinations as "Fiction," and potential objections are minimized - If the proposed concepts were presented as intended future Truth / reality, then it would more easily be seen as objectional.
    TERMS USED in this book to direct mind from reality:
    1. Newchild = baby (never called baby)
    2. Released = occurs as execution, suicide, euthanasia, or simply to purge society of what is considered as imperfection of a newchild that warrants termination. Mistakes, errors in judgement, or a three time offender of even a minor rule warranting discipline is seen as reason for "Release." A Receiver in training releases herself by lethal injection (suicide)
    3. Elsewhere = An ambiguous place apart from the community where other things may exist, or where someone goes when released, or death occurs naturally, or by accident.
    4. Number references Ones' through Twelves' = a child's highly controlled age group
    5. Community = a confined and controlled grouping of people
    6. Nurturer = those who are responsible for every Newchild until the Ceremony of One when they are assigned a name and given to rearing parents selected by elders (an approved couple will be allotted only two newchildren). The terms Male or Female are used - Never boy or girl
    7. Family Unit = Father, Mother (biological parents are unknown) and two children (one male and one female only allowed)
    8. Ceremony of Twelve = Assigned a lifelong profession that lasts until entering the House of the OLD or release
    9. The Pill – Everyone - men, women and children when they begin to have stirrings (sex oriented thoughts or dreams referred to as the "wanting") are required to take the neutering Pill which serves to suppress sexual feelings and arousal. It thus acts as a birth control pill. It is required to take this pill daily until entering the House of the OLD, a place where rods of discipline (also used with small children) are permitted to be used to keep them controlled, perhaps while being given their baths by younger members of the opposite sex who are chemically neutered.
    10. Birthmother = selected at the age of Twelve to have three newchildren in three years and then spend the rest of her life doing menial labor until she goes to the House of the Old - She will never see the newchildren she carried/incubated. They are taken away at birth. It is generally considered as an assignment with little honor — Birth fathers are never mentioned, nor is it mentioned how the birth mothers become pregnant.
    11. Chief Elder – is always Female

Note: A great many passages in this book are excessively graphic for many children to read without having a psychological affect.

pp. 147 - 151 Tells of twin males and the murder of one in graphic detail - Jonas is a
           Twelve. His unnatural father is a Nurturer who must choose which male is to be
           released (killed).

p. 151 Relates the tale of an assisted suicide.

After reading this book I am very concerned about the type of a future our young people, who have been brain washed with this philosophy, will enforce upon future generations. Reading this book has caused me to remember a movie seen in childhood called HITLER"S CHILDREN. Ideas from scenes in that movie are reflected in this book, The Giver. History relates well what one man (Adolph Hitler) did with such ideas.

Originally written by: Mrs. Eleanor K. Ramsey
Revised and added to by: Fr. David C. Trosch

EDITOR"S COMMENT:  The reviewers of this book, on amazon.com, who favor it
          are either children or those whose value systems are untrained or amoral. For the
          untrained mind this book seems to have merit, but as one reviewer commented,
          "They (the characters) never focused on one thing or went into description
          on what I thought were some very important issues."

It is not hard to understand why the content, though seemingly complex, is in fact shallow. It is written for mentally careless or untrained people, especially children, that can be easily led astray if the content does not bring attention to unresolvable problems. Insofar as being used as class assigned reading material for study it should be recognized that most teachers are incapable of sufficient analysis of its content in order to explain it properly to their students.

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February 1, 1999

Fr. James F. Zoghby
Corpus Christi Parish
6300 McKenna Drive
Mobile, AL 36608

Dear Fr. Zoghby,

I am a member of Corpus Christi Church, a widow and the parent of an eighth grade student in Corpus Christi School. Approximately two years ago I converted to Catholicism after doing a massive amount of reading and study on the teaching of the church and of Bible history. Although Charlene has not yet converted I had hoped that she would do so.

My reason for this letter is that I believe strongly in the chain of command when trying to resolve a problem.

Recently Charlene came to me and told me of a book her class was reading "The Giver" that made her feel very uncomfortable. That evening I read five chapters and was appalled by what I read.

The next day I went to see Mrs. Elseiver and spoke with her about the book. She told me she had not read it and would have the teacher, Mrs. Bynum, who was teaching it give me a call. She did and justified it because it was on the Diocesan approved book list.

I told both women that Charlene was not to read one more word out of the book nor to be in the room where it was being read aloud. They have complied with my wishes.

Since then I have finished reading the book and now finding that other children are now talking about the assisted suicide epic in the book.  Notes are attached along with transcripts of selected objectionable material taken out of the book.

I will list my questions here for the sake of clarity:

  1. This book is classified as fiction -Does that make it Alright?
  2. Is it alright to show certain twelve year old girls as being officially assigned as birthmothers who will be nothing more than brood sows to produce three babies in three years for others to adopt, and then spend the balance of their lives working at hard labor?
  3. Is it alright to present, in story form, that everyone at twelve is to take the "Pill" every day for the balance of their lives until they go to the house of the Old. This includes every one including married couples - all except those girls who are Assigned as birthmothers?
  4. Nowhere in this book does it say how the birthmothers get pregnant. Is it possible that artificial means are being implied and that somehow men are not needed for procreation anymore except as a sperm bank donor? Or that sex in marriage for the purpose of producing children is wrong? Read the enclosed clipping from the Mobile Register, January 31, 1999.
  5. Is it alright to show in graphic detail a newborn baby (called newchild) being murdered in a "good" way? and then an assisted suicide in detail?
  6. I am sure you have not read this book - please do - it is on the seventh grade book list but for some reason eighth graders are the ones reading it.
  7. Mrs. Elseiver told me that she could not comment on this or any other book brought to her attention as long as it is on the list approved by the Diocesan school office -WHY NOT? Since I placed my child under her care as principal I feel it is her job to look out for the best interest of that child while she is in this school. Why must I now feel that perhaps there are other things I should know about that no one connected to the school wants to take a stand about these days?

I will be looking for your reply in the very near future.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Eleanor K. Ramsey

P.S.  Mrs. Frances Moore, a mother of another eight grade student at Corpus Christi
         School, has looked up reviews on this book on the Internet (copies enclosed),
         mailed them to me and told me that I could tell you that she too is very
         disturbed by the contents of this book.

EDITOR'S NOTE:  Mrs. Ramsey related that she had been told by Fr. Zoghby that he had
         forwarded the letter to the archdiocesan offices.  As of one year later, February 2000,
         there has been no reply from anyone in regard to this matter.

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