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Summary: ThE gIvEr
Review: This book was read in our English class, and I fully enjoyed it. Lois Lowry is an amazing author, and her story of The Giver, kept all our attention. The way she wrote of the future is unbelievable. Jonas' world was perfect until he became The Receiver. Then he learned of pain and war. Although many people are not sure what happened to Jonas at the end and have some "unanswered questions" I believe that Jonas and Gabriel died. When they are on the sled they talk about Elsewhere and they become warm and joyful. This is a wondeful book, though, that EVERYONE should read.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: Jonas has the perfect life. There is no war, no pain, no unemployment - everyone is assigned a job in the community. Everything is taken care of. When Jonas turns twelve, he is assigned to the lonely but highly honored job of Receiver of Memory. In his new life he discovers that his Utopian lifestyle has not been around forever, that before his day there was more than this. There was war, there was pain, poverty, joy, colors, happiness; much more feeling than anyone in his lifestyle has ever experienced. The Giver, who is giving Jonas all the memories of the past, is training him so that the community can call upon Jonas when they need wisdom. Jonas later becomes confused, because he is to bear the burden of the past while the mindless drones in the community continue their 'perfect' lives. He wonders if one person is to bear this burden while the others continue not knowing anything, or if everyone should know the truth of the past. He discusses his feelings with The Giver, and they hatch a plan. Want to find out more? Read the book!
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is an okay book, it wasn't something that I would read again, it was kind of like a one-time read. It had good parts but I liked some of Louis Lowry's other books better, the ending isn't great but if you have an "open mind" it should make sense. It's a good book except the reading level was a little low and the ending wasnt very good, but besides that it was okay.
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Summary: A Real Page Turner!!!
Review: I really liked this book! There was a few proubles with it though. I recomend this book for people how like an ending that dosn't tell what happenes to the charters. I think that the author should have told us me of what happened in the end. Another prouble with the book is that it has a lot of counter dictions. It say they don't have guns, but a few pages later they do. I think it was not as rewarding at the end of the book. I still will recomend the book, becuse it has a lot of good twist in it. As I said it is a page turner!! I think most of the book is pretty good!
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Summary: The Giver Review
Review: I recently read The Giver in class. I personally didn't enjoy it. I thought Lous Lowery didn't do a good job of sticking to her story line. In some parts of the book she would say one thing the community did then the next chapter she would say something tatally opposite making the book not flow and make sense. Ialso thought the ending was to sudden and didn't answer any questions i had.
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Summary: [...]
Review: The giver is a very good book. I like it alot the begining is very boreing but the in the middle it starts to grab your attion and you want to read on, even during my break time i would sit in my desk and read.But the end of the book is confuseing to some people when you read this book you cant be closed minded you have to be able to picture things in your head your. so i suggest you buy the book and start reading.
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Summary: review
Review: Lois Lowry's book "the Giver" is awsome, i loved it. The whole conseps was facinating. This book is about a community which is vary different than ours today. i dont want to give the book away but the end of this book is vary different.well i suggest you read it because my class loved it, and so did i. So dont even hesitate to buy it because you will LOVE IT!!!
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Summary: Surprised?!?!
Review: The book The Giver was a very good book. Although it had many unanswered questions, I thought that it was interesting trying to think of what could have happened. I also liked the fact that they kept on going back to the beginning of the book and connected everything together to make it a great story. Lois Lowry is a great author, and it is proven through this book. She puts in the story a couple little lesons that could relate to an everyday situation even though this story obviously takes place in the future. Overall this book is superb. I could not put this book down, and it is a short read too. So it can be read in a day.
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Summary: The Giver Review by Girl with long last name @ BJH
Review: Lois Lowry has done an extraordinary job with the book, The Giver. It is well written and full of exciting plots. I really liked how she introduces and showed the true meaning of Release. My favorite part of the story was when Jonas ran out of the community because it was thrilling. How she describe was great. The part I disliked was the ending. It left too many unanswered questions like what exactly happen to him? Or what happen at the community after Jonas left? Another reason I didn't like was that she makes to many mistakes in her book. An example would be like she said that the people in the community didn't know what were animals, yet they knew what was salmon. Other then that the book was great. I really recommend this book to kids about 10 years old and higher because if younger kids read it, they would understand it that well. Hope you will get a copy of The Giver after reading my review!
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Summary: A Dissenter From the Acclaim Given This Book
Review: My son wouldn't finish this book. I did, but I didn't enjoy it at all. We're in a fantasy world (something I usually like), but one where the rules of the game are never really explained -- this means that incidents happen without, seemingly, making sense in the terms of the world we are plunged into. Also (and this is why my son wouldn't finish it) the book is depressing in a way I found not only cruel, but gratuitous. I have no problem letting my son read "The Yearling" or other books where the outcome is far from pleasant, but the ending of this one seemed nasty in a way that's acceptable perhaps because of the culture we live in. I felt a lesson was being pushed down my throat -- and I didn't like the lesson. I know the book won an award -- but it's not the only winner of the Newbery that may prove not to age well.
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