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Summary: My review of the book 'The Giver' from Lars Ebmeier
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry is about the life in a strange community, where everything is the same. The book deals with the living conditions of the people in the community, with climate control and the controlling reproduction. It also talks about the problems, which originate from total sameness and the living with no differences.
In my opinion, it was a very interesting story and it was easy to read, because of the well-known action and the problems which are discussed in the book. Moreover the book motivates the reader to think about his life, the life of other people and the whole development of the human society, because we are already in a time, where genetic food manipulation and the manipulation of the genetic code begins to be normal. This is a point you must think about the lots of scientists, who say they do their work only for helping the people and if this development is the correct way in the future.
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Summary: Review Manuel Göding
Review: " The Giver" , by Lois Lowry, is an interesting book, which makes the reader think about a "possible" way of living in the future by describing an utopian community.The protagonist in that community, named Jonas, is a boy in the age of eleven,
who was selected by the Elders (Community Leaders) to become the Receiver of Memories when he turns to the age of twelve. The R.o.M.'s function is to keep the memories and feelings of the community members. These privileges are to "protect" the people of making decisions which could be wrong,
so the community tries to interrupt any feeling which might "destroy" sameness in the community, which even tells us that there is no freedom in the community. Different from the others, the R.o.M. is never observed and he is allowed to have his own feelings and memories. By showing the R.o.M.'s disagreement with the system, Lois Lowry wants to make the reader think about the community's problems. In that community there is a rule for everything and everyone, everything is manipulated and controlled by the elders but not the R.o.M.. By changing Jonas' situation
Lois Lowry makes the reader understand the feelings of Jonas during his training lessons with the Giver. Lois Lowry tries to show the reader her interpretation of possible consequences of observing people in a way, which is easy to understand but it is not only her opinion, it makes the reader think about what might happen if everything is influenced by a system which was made for protecting people from themselves. The way the story ends should make the reader identify with Jonas and his decision to flee, when he tries to find a way out of a system, which he do not agree with.
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Summary: Parallelism between "The Matrix" and "The Giver"
Review: The Giver written by Lois Lowry is a well written book.
Lois Lowry choose a simple writing style, so everyone can understand it. The book is about a boy who lives in a community where everything is the same. Jonas was selected by the comity of the elders for the most honored job of the community. Lois Lowry wants to show the reader how the way of life could be different if everything is same. I think it is a good book because she proposes the reader to think of his own life, after reading the book. It is written like a science fiction story which seams to be very unrealistically. So at the end of the book I thought that there is a parallelism between 'The Matrix' and 'The Giver'. There are many agreements in this two stories because of the parallelism world in 'The Matrix' there are also Machines which have the control of the whole population, they look for the right way of how the people live.
In 'The Giver' there is near the same with the memories. So if the reader is thinking of the difference of his own way of life and of the way of life which Jonas is living it could be interesting.
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Summary: I LIKE this futuristic book
Review: I really like the novel "The Giver" written by Lois Lowry. The Giver is really a children book, but I think it is also for ancient people. It is a good novel, because in this book, you can see a utopian community without death and pain and other negative properties. The writer uses a great fascinated style to describe the community. In this Community is everything the same, no differences. I think, on the one hand, that is good, because the people live peaceful, but on the other hand, the people cannot see colour and other expressions. But it is interesting to read this book, to see which effects cause when everything is not the same.
This book teaches us to be grateful for the gift of choice, the gift of love, and even the gift of pain. I recommend this book for anyone.
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Summary: Good Futuristic story
Review: Lois Lowry's book "The Giver" is a good written book which shows us how our live can be in the future. The book is about a community where everything is the same. Their lifestyle is called "Sameness". The children are born by special birthmothers and not by their biologic mothers like in our world. The people also can't choose their jobs so that everybody get his proffesion by a special group of special observers. There much more differences between Jonas', the main character, and our community so that it will take too much time to list them all out. The story is not really hard too understand so that the book is a good novel to work with it in the English lessons. It shows us how important it is that we can feel pain and of course love.
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Summary: Review of an interesting book
Review: Lowry writes in the novel 'The Giver' an interesting style about a way of life that is totally different from ours. Jonas is a boy who lives in a community of sameness. In the beginning everything seems to be perfect, but then you got the information that there are rules for everything you can imagine and everything is controlled by the elders. After he is chosen to be the new receiver, he gets memories of beautiful things. Now he sees that it is not fair that he is the only one who is able to have them. Now you can see that the life in the community isn't as perfect as it seems to be before.
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Summary: The Giver review
Review: The novel 'The Giver' is about a community without colour, war, love or pain. Everything is the same and under control by 'The Elders'. There are no choices and everybody is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas becomes 12 he is going to receive special training from the Giver. The Giver translates Jonas all the memories and the pleasure of life. There is no turning back for Jonas. As he discovers the secret of the community, he wants to go to Elsewhere. I suggest that book to readers who like to be left wondering and thinking, because if you read this book, that's you will be doing by the end.
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Summary: Anybody should read this book
Review: Firstly I want to say that the book gives me a very horrifying impression. The shown sameness seams unbelievable to me. I can't imagine a life like this in the novel 'The Giver'. The novel motivated to think about our own life and that it is not naturally to be an individual. In contrast to the people in the community we can make our own decisions and can choose for example our own job. Furthermore we can live where or with which person we want. Finally I can say that I won't live in a community like the one shown in the novel. But those people in the novel didn't know anything else. I want to mention that anybody should read this book.
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Summary: A Futuristic Book.
Review: I really don't know, what I should think about this Book. It tries to question everything, which is normal for us.
The Story is about Jonas, a 12 Year old Boy, who lives in a community, where trough to genetic control, Sameness is everything. The People who live their can neither see colours, nor love the person, they want to love. Families like we know them, don't exist, the people live in Family units, which are found together by the Elders.
On his ceremony of 12, Jonas is chosen, to become the new Receiver of Memory. A person, who keeps all the Memories of the community about live and how live should normally, be.
It's the only Job in the community, where you have something like a private sphere.
As Jonas gets more and more memories about normal live'. He is disappointed, and wants no more live in Sameness. He and 'The Giver', the old receiver of Memory, made a plan how to flee out of the community, and they escaped. On this way, Jonas gave the people back the possibility to have a normal live. If someone is interested in books like this, books which make you think about total control, I hardly recommend this book to them. In my eyes, it was Partly a little bit boring.
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Summary: The Giver- Not just a children's book
Review: FROM A UNIVERSITY STUDENT: I originally had to read this book for a children's literature class that I am taking. As I got through the book I realized that this "children's" book had made me reevaluate how we look at what we would consider to be a "perfect" society. Many people criticize the societies that we live in now and would even suggest that the norms and values practiced in this book would be ideal. The Giver makes us realize that though there are consequences to having choices in a society- choice is freedom from imprisonment of conformity
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