The Giver
Elements of a book: characters, plot, setting, tension, climax. -pg. x "A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his imagination as he does." "The important thing is that another medium--stage, film, music--doesn't obliterate a book. The movie is here now, on a big screen, with stars and costume and a score. But the book hasn't gone away. It has simply grown up, grown larger and begun to glisten in a new way." xiii. " Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit." pg. 10. "Two children--one male, and one female--to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules." pg 11
