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The Giver

The Giver

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: what a great book!
Review: At first, like all books it was kind of boring, but then later on, it got really interesting and made me want to read on. I think the book had a great ending because everything seemed to just fall into place. READ IT READ IT READ IT!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: the giver
Review: The Giver
The novel, the Giver, by Lois Lowry is about a boy who is called Jonas. He
lives in a community which seems to be a perfect world. In the Ceremony of 12
Jonas becomes the new Receiver of Memory. His live changes rapidely, because
he learns how the real world looks like. At last he escapes.
We find that its a nice story. The first part of the story was very boring,
because it describes the Community. When Jonas becomes the Receiver of Memory
the story began to be exciting. In the whole story there is not much
action!!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Everyone should read this book at least once
Review: This is a superb book. I have read and re-read it many times, and loved it every time.

The book also forces you to think about things that most people don't think about that much, and to re-analzye certain common philosophical assumptions.

I think that everyone should read this book at least once in their life.

The biggest problem that I had with this book is the rather unsatisfactory ending; the story's resolution is suggested, but nothing is stated. Personally, I would have liked the story to have continued a little longer so as to find out what had happened later.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: It's a good book for school !
Review: The Giver tells the reader the story of Jonas, who lives in a community, which seems to be a perfect world by having very strict rules. At his Ceremony of Twelve he is selected as a new „Reciever of Memory". That means that he gets to see things which the others in the community aren't able to see. Gradually, Jonas notices how the „real world" looks like.

Our opinion:
It's a good book for a school-book. The beginning is very boring, but page by page it gets more interesting. Especially the moments when Jonas gets the memories are written very well so that you can imagine these situations. After the first chapters, you don't want to stop reading the book. The book makes you thinking about our own society.

We would recomment to read this book. :o)

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: unfortunately 0 stars don't exist
Review: In a world without feelings Jonas is chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory. That means he alone has to keep all the memories of the past. Gradually he recognizes that the community he lives in isn't that perfect as it's supposed to be. Together with the Giver of Memory he makes a plan to bring the memories like colors and real feelings back to the members of community...
I didn't enjoy the book very much. It's just one more book of those that "inconspicuously" wants to call attention to the grievances of the world.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: B00x0rz w]-[iC]-[ R00xXorz
Review: The plot is acting in a fictional world in the future, where the people -tired of wars and diseases- live in such called "communities". Small villages. They where able, because of scientific development to use "climate control" and "terraforming", to build the world, like they wanted to. In their community, they abolished things like, weather (because of bad weather), hills and mountains (because of the risk of falling down), colors (because they wanted to get all thing unitary). The people in the community, have to stick to a lot of rules. The main character Jonas, a 12-year-old boy, was chosen for the most important job in the whole community. He is going to get the new Receiver of Memory, who is reminding all the thing of the past, the other people don't want to know. During the process of his training by the Giver of Memory, all the dark secrets of the community were revealed to them. He and the Giver make a plan to change the life of the people again, to the way it was in the past.

The book is good to imagine. The world that is described, has a lot of good sides, but the dark sides of that way of living are very scary to us.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: a utopian world
Review: the giver is a book about a perfect community in which nobody has to suffer of hunger or illness. Everything is controlled by a committee, called "The Elders". The protagonist in the book is called Jonas, a twelve years old boy, who receives the most important assignment of the community. He's chosen to become the "Receiver" of the memories. He's educated by the Giver. But during his education he gets to know the disadvanteges of the community. The book ends with an open ending.

It's a nice book. As it is a utopian world it's very interesting.

cu greetings from germany

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: good story but bad end
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry is an entertaining book, but it is not very realistic. The main person, called Jonas, should become the new Receiver of Memory. He is the only person in his community, who can see colours, and has feelings (besides the Giver)and so he learned how terrible it is to be the only one, who feels love. At the end of the book he decided to do something for the people in the community, but you don't know what happens to him and the community, because of this open end, you have to think about Jonas and his future life.
So it is quite interessting, but I was not very lucky about the end.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A NiCe b00k0r
Review: The book is about a boy who lives in a communtiy. He gets selected to be the new receiver of the community. He gets the memories of the whole past from a person who saved them for his whole life in his BIG brain. By getting this memories ( f.e. of snow or love ) he forms himself a opinion about the community and the rules. He wants to leave the community to give the memories back to the inhabitants...

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: the silly book
Review: it is not a good book , because it is boring . but some of my friends think it is interesting . But i'm not . the beginning was boring but later in the book it was exciting too .


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