a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps. 2. a leverlike part worked by the foot to supply power in various mechanisms, as the bicycle. 3. Music.
The Sled. The sled, the first memory Jonas receives from the Giver, symbolizes the journey Jonas takes during his training and the discoveries he makes. It is red, a color that symbolizes the new, vital world of feelings and ideas that Jonas discovers.
But it's also a world without memory, at least in the premise of Lois Lowry's 1993 novel The Giver. The movie adaptation opened this week and stars Meryl Streep and Jeff Bridges.The Giver swept up nearly every prestigious prize for young adult literature, including the Newbery Medal and the William Allen White Award.att McKee/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Lois Lowry says she didn't think of The Giver as futuristic or dystopian or science fiction or fantasy â it was just a story about a kid making sense of a complicated world.