Remembering a Present-Oriented Future in Lois Lowry’s The Giver (1993)

Futures Studies as a multidisciplinary academic field developed in the last decades has emphasized meaningful and revealing nature of images future originating every society. In this sense, Piotr M. Szpunar Karl K. (2016) underline close relationship between recalling past imagining suggest mutual influence interdependence both processes. The purpose article is to apply concept “collective thought” coined by these authors analysis Giver (1993) Lois Lowry, which depicts dystopian society where memories past, powerful threatening artifact, are kept away from members community. This novel been extensively analyzed text many different perspectives. However, no critical attention paid way Lowry explores interrelationship visions created their bonds reciprocal interaction. Starting consideration fiction, research attempts move exploration one step further claims that more nuanced understanding can be achieved considering contributions concepts collective memory thinking.