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Summary: The Giver is a intriguing book, a must read.
Review: The Giver is about a world that has based there living on utopian ideals. While reading the book many things caught my interest and have continued to intrigued me. One thing is how the author Lois Lowry used the approach of having all the inhabitants in the society believe that they are happy. Lowry started the book as if the citizens were preprogrammed to believe that they were perfectly happy, which is a common approach to many books based the so called "perfect world". The difference between The Giver and other books based on a utopian world such as 1984, and A Brave New World is that Lowry used a mediocre view of the law system that other authors did not show in there books. The laws in The Giver could almost be compared to most of the laws shown in the other books. I thought the book The Giver was a intriguing book, because Lowry used a style of writing that most people have not seen before in a book based on a utopian society. `
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Summary: The Giver Review
Review: The Giver is an interesting book. It shows what is lost and gained by living in a world without differences. People in the community of The Giver make no important choices, they are told everything from who to marry to what career path to follow to what to eat. As children they are told how to wear there hair, when to start ridding bikes, and share one birthday with all other children. People in this community are safe, they think that they are happy and never call attention to the subtle differences that still exist just enough to make them seperate people. They can't see colors and never question the orders that are given to them via a PA system that exists everywhere in the community. In this story, the people of 'long ago' who were unique like we are today chose sameness because the wanted safety. Letting people make their own choices was too risky, not worth the freedom it brings because it is too easy for poeple to mke the wrong choice. Also, in a controled world with neither too much hot nor cold, with no decicions to be made, there is no pain, physical nor mental. But there is also no pleasure, no happiness, no love. These people aren't really living because they have no real feelings. They only think that they are happy because they don't know what they have lost, they don't know what happiness is. But in this story, as in life, pain, pleasure, wisdom and all types of things can be passed down by storytellers. Here this storyteller is The Giver, but he only shares his memories of real living with one person, who will in time share those saame stories with another single person, so as to have record of the outside world without disrupting the sameness. Jonas, the chosen Reciever of the memories, realises the price for safety is too high, and sacrifices himself to force his memories on the people. In the book, Jonas hs to leave the community and never return in order to share his memories, and after wandering for many days, he thinks that his has found Elsewhere (the place outside the Community of sameness)But we never really know if his found his destination or if he died on the way.
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Summary: Great! I couldn't put it down!
Review: The Giver was a great book. Lois Lowry really expressed herself in this book. It makes me value life. I loved the ending. It was the best book I ever read. She used many expressive words that really made the book great.
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Summary: This is about a town of people without choices or memories.
Review: My sister recommended this book to me, and I thought it would be an ordinary book. But I was extremely wrong. This is one of the best books I've ever read. It take place in a town where everything is assigned, there are hardly any choices. Also, the residents have no memories. Jonah, the new "Giver", is the only one who experiences memories. This book helps you appreciate life,every memory you have, and all the opportunities we have today. The fact you CAN have these memories and opportunities is wonderful. My great grandmother died and, to use a quote, "Memories are stars in the dark night of sorrow." Without them, I don't know how I would have gotten through it.
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Summary: The Giver's a great book relating to folklore.
Review: The Giver's a great book relating to folklore. This book, written by Lois Lowry, is about everyone being the same, with one man remembering all the things since... well, they don't say, but you get the impression of a very long time ago. Jonas helps this man out, to release these stored memories and return them to the people, so they'd "remember" such things as colors and originality. The idea was sort of taken to an extreme, but memories and passing them down is an important part of all cultures. This is where folklore comes in. Folklore consists of tales passed down from earlier generations. Stories that are fun to hear. Stories that scare the pants off you. Stories that grip you and don't ever let you go, or let you forget. And they're made to be so. Why would anyone bother sharing such tales, only for them to be forgotten the next day? They'd be useless. So they have worked these tales into their culture, wrapped their grain of truth up in layers of comedy, horror, or whatever best suits it, and fed it to their children, so that they might further pass it on. This book shows this all, and what would happen if it didn't exist. Yes, it's sort of extremist, but it's a goood read. Definitly something that'll make you thankful for your own culture's tales and folklore. And remember, just because it's folklore, doesn't mean it was never real. ~Mike Mawhinney~
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Summary: It makes you appreciate today
Review: This book was a wonderful experience. It made me enjoy living and enjoy or appreciate the fact that I have the power to chose and the gift of feeling and seeing color. In this book a boy named Jonas is chosen by his government of elders to be the all knowing reciever. It will be his life long duty to know all pain and suffering that has happened but also know all happiness,love and joy that the world can offer. He recieves the memories from the previous reciever, now the giver, and together they portray shared remembrence. Through them they keep the memories of the past alive and that is very important to all people and things. His new found knowledge forces him to lose his innocence that the town he grew up in offered. The town protected everyone in the town from all pain,hunger, and fear. But at the same time they did not enjoy love, happiness, and could not see color. Towards the end he leaves the town with a little baby named Gabriel because he knew too much and couldn't stay in the town of sameness. He also did not want them to kill the baby which they were going to do. So The giver stayed to help the town and Jonas and Gabriel went off on their own with another family. This book opens your eyes to the world and makes you value all you have.
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Summary: enthraling
Review: The Giver is a very good book. It gives a different way of living and looking at the world. You will love Jonah and the Giver. I read this book in 3 grade and still love it in 7 grade. I encourage all of you to read it and keep an open mind.
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Summary: This review looks at life in this situation.
Review: The Giver was an interesting book. At first the book was a little hard to follow. It was difficult adjusting to the way life was described. Imagining life without color is a stretch. Color is in everything we do, everything we see, and everything we feel. Why would anyone want to go to "Sameness"? Why would anyone want to live life with no color or choices? Sure life would probably be a lot less difficult, but it would be so plain. Not being able to really choose a career. Not being able to choose a spouse or children would be a horrible existence. That is one of the joys in life; choosing the one person that you would want to spend the rest of your life with, the one person you want to see every day and make so much a part of your life that you are willing to combine two separate lives to make a completely new one. Another joy in life is difference. The differences in landscapes and weather, food and music are vital additions to life. Depending on where someone lives effects their choices of activities, food, and culture. Without these everything and everyone is the same. In The Giver nothing was different. No one could choose who they were going to marry or what they "are going to be when they grew up". A definition of life is "the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual". Without differences there is no life and without life there is nothing. The people in The Giver weren't really living, they were just wandering around in a boring existence that would seem to go on forever and was controlled by beings that led no lives themselves. "Every man dies, but not every man really lives."* * Braveheart
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Summary: Lois Lowry's Best
Review: When I was in elementary school, i had read many novels written by Lois Lowry. But this has got to be the best book she has ever written, i recommend this book to all people, it was great!
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Summary: I Highly Recommend This Book!!!
Review: The Giver is an excellent book, in my opinion. It is about a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas who lives in a supposedly perfect world-no color, no feelings, no changes or decisions of any kind. Spouses and jobs are chosen by the commitee. Jonas is chosen to receive the memories of the past, of happiness and pain, of feelings and color. When he learns of the past, he finds he cannot live how he lives, with no emotions or feelings, so he decides to set off on a mission to free himself-and his community-from the world with no feelings.
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