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Summary: An Excellent Selection
Review: I found The Giver to be a shockingly realistic portrayal of what a conformist future may be like. Everything and everyone is the same, and variation is rare if it exists at all. It is here we find Jonas, a 11 year old boy about to turn 12. When a person comes of age at 12, they are assigned a job to do for the rest of their life. Because of this, I thought that the book may have had communist undertones. More in the sense of a Utopian communism than a communism in reality. Everyone is the same, and has the same things. The world is ideal. There is no pain, suffering, war, or grief. I feel that The Giver flawlessly depicts the struggle of an individual in a society that is unwilling to change. Jonas is forced to deal with how he feels, and the knowledge he is different from everyone else. I found the plainess of the other characters to be an excellent foil for Jonas's differences. The book leads to a stunning conclusion I found to be a perfect ending to the story.
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Summary: A Book for All Ages
Review: Although written on a 5th grade level, "The Giver" is a book for all ages. It illistrates the importance of having and sharing memories with one another. Jonas, the Giver, and the community learn a great deal about learning what it means to trully live, love, feel, and see. The story proves that without pain there is no passion, and without hate there is no love. I trully enjoyed the book and I recomend it for everyone to read. After reading the book make sure to sit down with a family member and share an intimate memory. The Giver recieves two thumbs up and five golden stars.
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Summary: "Utopia"
Review: In Lowry's book you are transported to a place devoid of emotion; a place where there are no past mistakes to look back and learn from. That is unless you are "The Reciever of Memory." In the socieyt where our main character, Jonas, lives there is only one person who carries all of the memories for the entire society. This method is used to shelter the society from uneccessary problems such as bad weather, love, and pain. The idea works except one person must hold the burden for everyone. In her book Lowry's provides detailed descriptions of such complicated emotions as anger, grief, and true happiness so that you can experience them yourself. The book is not purely for entertainment value, it definitely will evoke some serious thinking. By the end of this novel it is guaranteed you will feel everything Jonas has been through.
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Summary: Compelling!!
Review: a unique and amazing read! designed to keep you reading and thinking. lowery's definitive vision of this world causes the mind to twist and turn while telling an emotional story about a world that lives by rules and rules alone. a heartwarming cast of individual characters that you are bound to send youre heart out to!
CT - SMHS
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Summary: "The Giver" by Louis Lowry
Review: "The Giver", this is a very well written book. I like it because it makes you think about your own society. It made me think about many things, that's why it is a good book. There were many details about everything that happened. The people of that community were so immersed in there society that they didn't know what they were missing, a lot of the things we as a society take for granite. For example the color they didn't see that. Then again that's what we as a society are trying to do overlook people's differences so that everyone is treated equal, but we try and take into consideration people's differences. In conclusion this book has great feeling that most of the characters of this great book did not have. Good job, Mr. Lowry
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Summary: The Giver--A great read!!
Review: The Giver is a great book. It allows a person to stretch their imagination, and step into a futuristic world. This is a great book for everyone to read! I read this book when I was 13, and I just read it again at the age of 18, and I enjoyed as much the second time as I did the first!
Reading this book will make you feel fortunate to live in a free, liberal, open society. I bet you have never thought what the world would be like with out color, or music, or even love. This book will help your mind wonder into a place where none of these things exist.
I highly recommend The Giver to anyone looking to read a great book!!
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Summary: The Giver
Review: We've read the book "The Giver" in our English lessons in school.
First, it was very difficult to read, but the more we read, the more we understood. It was interesting to get to know such a world which is so different to ours: no colours, no love, no emotions,... It was Jonas's assignment to become "The Receiver" to get all those memories back. It was exciting to read how Jonas bears them.
We like the fact that Louis Lowry chose an open end, because everybody can use his or her own imagination to decide what will happen next.
All in all, we think the book is very advisable to read!
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Summary: My impression of the book
Review: The novel "The Giver" by Lois Lowry deals with a boy who lives in a strange community and who find out what real life means.
In the community where he lives the people don`t know what love is, they havn`t feelings. But there are one person who has all the memories yet, and the boy has been chosen to receive them. But with the new feelings he can`t live in the community, and together with his teacher, who give him the memories he makes a plan to escape....
I like this book, because it gives you a new point of view of your life. It makes you think about your life and the future.
The novel is very exciting! Only the ending doesn:t please me becaus you don`t know what will happened....
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Summary: Review
Review: I think the novel "The Giver" written by Lois Lowry was quite a good one. At first,it was confusing, because it sometimes was difficult to understand the context and the strukture of the community. Later it became more and more interesting. It was interesting to see in which way people can be controlled. I would like to know how the story really ends, because there is an open end. If you are interested in Science Fiction, then you should read this novel!
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Summary: The Giver from Lois Lowry
Review: I think The Giver is a very interesting novel. It shows what advantages and disadvantages such a Community Of Sameness has. Initially you wouldn't think that it is very interesting to read because the whole community is explained and the new words for this novel are menaged, but it gets more and more exciting if you read further. You will feel with Jonas, when he realized how boring the community he lives in is and when he leaves the community. The book has an open ending so it isn't clear what happens at the end.
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