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Summary: The Wonderous Book by Lois Lowery
Review: The Giver, is a great book, about a twelve year old boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a utopian society where everyday activates are all characterized by sameness. In the community there is no such thing as pain and there is no fear, no hunger, and no war. In a community empowered by The Elders, Jonas is assigned to be the next Receiver. The Receiver's job is to receive ancient memories of old civilizations from The Giver. The memories include war, pain, hurt, hunger, and love. The memories of these feelings have never been experienced before by Jonas. Jonas divises a plot to escape the community and travel to a place where "real" life exists. The Giver is a great book that will keep your attention. It is hard to understand a world without these feelings, but Lois Lowery does a great job illustrating what it would be like. She also gives you a greater appreciation of the feelings that we experience in life.
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Summary: Really Good
Review: The Giver is a good and interesting book even though I hated the ending. Anyway, I still give the book five stars.
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Summary: The Giver Review
Review: I think the book The Giver is a really good book because it made me think about the feelings they felt. I thought it was sad when Jonas' sister wasnt treated right on the playground. I think that it is weird how Jonas lives in a perfect world that doesn't have any wars, sickness, or hunger.Overall I think it was a good book but it had a very bad ending. It ended with Jonas ran away! I think that if a book ends like The Giver ended then there should be a sequel to the book The Giver. (7.3AR)
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Summary: The Giver
Review: I think that "THE GIVER" was a sad story, but I also think that this book could be better. The way I support my opinion is, it was sad because the dad killed the little boy. I think that it could be better by finishing or writing a sequel because at the end of the book, the story just cuts off. **** 7.3 CT
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Summary: couldhave done better
Review: Lios Lowry's The Giver is a good book ay first, but thern as it reaches the end it loses the its touch. The book just stops you as it was getting to get better. As if you were talking to some one on the phone you are disconnected right when something important was about to be told. But it does have the effect of you gluing your eyes to the page. when your eager to find what happens next. But from all the work Ms. Lowry did on the book, I feel she could have done a little better.
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Summary: The Giver: Nothing Like It!
Review: The Giver is a book with a lesson that everyone needs to be taught. Be lucky of what you have and who you are. Be glad to have choices and to be an individual. This novel is an extravagant, have-to-read book. As wonderful as it is, it's also very sad. Everyone in The Community except for the Receiver and Giver cannot see color and they have no memories of the past. When twins are born, the one who weighs the least is Released or killed. I don't think that it is very fair to be killed because you look like another person. I give this book five stars for its imaginative text and creativity. (7.3rcn)
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Summary: Fantastic & Fun
Review: I just finished reading The Giver. It is a phenomenal book about a young boy who lives in a community of rules and laws. The young boy, Jonas, got the most important job of all--the Receiver. The Receiver is the only person who knows what is going on in the community. Jonas did not mind his job even though he had to do the same thing every day until they chose a new Receiver and that would be decades. He was angry that they lied to him, and he ran away to save Gabriel.
I think this book is good because it shows that it is a great thing to have choices. Jonas did not have the freedom we have to live how we want. He had to follow all the rules of the community. Also, his parents weren't able to help him either because they had to follow the rules too. I think Jonas should have gone through with his job because it is only fair to the others who do their assigned jobs. Lois Lowry is a really good writer. She can really make the story come alive in your mind. She taught us how lucky we are to have freedom. 7.3sjk
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Summary: Good Book Ok ending
Review: In my opinion this was a very good book. I think that the author had to put a lot of time and effort into writing this book so she could make yet another top seller. She had very good details and descriptions of what life must have been like for Jonas. She had a good way of telling how the memories made the beholder feel. This is what I like about the book. In a less positive not I think that because this was such a detailed and descriptive book the author just go tired of it. But to get to the point there could have been a better ending. I think that a sequel would have been too much, but at the same time maybe 10 extra pages woundn't have hurt. But in the end I think this was a very good book and had to have taken a lot of time and effort to write so I have to give her credit there. 7.3 ZPM
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Summary: Fantastic and Fun
Review: The Giver, a phenomenal book I just read really makes you think about someone else's life. Lois Lowry should be proud of all her work. This book is about a curious young boy who just became a man. He got the most important job of them all--to be the new Receiver.
Getting his new job means that he will have to carry out the same job every day until the picking of a new Receiver. The time he would have to be the Receiver would be so long. Jonas would have to handle the pressure of knowing what's going on in the community. I think he should handle the job because it's only fair to the others who are doing their part.
I also agree that they should be able to choose their jobs, but that's why their community is supposed to be perfect. It's like a secure little box where no one can get out of. No ones feelings are supposed to matter. They just do what they are told. That would be very boring. Like Jonas, other twelve year-old kids would get a job, maybe the law-maker who comes up with the rules.
This book is great because it teaches you about what it's like not living a life how you want to live it. It shows the importance of having freedom. 7.3SJK
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Summary: The Giver-interesting book
Review: The book 'The Giver' was a book that could tech you lessons. It was a type of book that you had to pay attention to so that you could understand the meaning and the lessons that we going on throughout the whole book. I thought that it was intesting at some parts because you had to really go back and think about what you were reading. What i really thought was intesting and yet neat at the same time was that Jonas could interperate these memories that the Giver had, and also being able to say the word before The Giver told him what it was.(p.85) Like i was saying the book really makes you want to think about all these questions that run through your mind...like " Is this possibly what the future really holds," or " If it is the future then how will it start and when will it start." Just different questions ran through my mind about some of the things. This book overall was a pretty good book! I think that it could have a different ending to it, but if that is the way that Lois Lowry wants to end it then i guess she can.
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