The Giver

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Summary: I Just Couldn't Stop
Review: This book starts out in the twentieth century just like us. Everything in their own little world on earth is the same. There is complete control over everything and everyone. No one in their community has any choices of what they can do or what they can feal. They have lost it all and only one person in their community is holding all of the memories to advise their town on choices that they may have. HIs name is the Giver and he starts to pass on the memories to the new reciever named Jonas. Jonas experiences happy thoughts and pain that he has never felt before. As he recieves these new memories he relizes that this isn't the way to live and he tries to change it. Jonas and the Giver come up with a plan to send back all the memories to the community so that everyone can feal happiness and pain again.

I give this bok a four out of five stars. The author cought my attention and held onto it though out the whole book. The author did a good jod with not going into deep detail. She was very concise though out the book. SHe explained the characters with good detail and the setting of the book. I would spend hours reading and telling myself, "just one more chapter". The only thing that bugged me a little was the ending. They got me all worked up in the end and i really wanted to find out what happended next but the author ended it kind of in a funny way. After i was done I wished that she had written more and not ended so soon. That ending bothered me for awhile and I had to read another book to get that one off my mind. I recommend this book to all ages.

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Summary: this is a great book
Review: Jonas worls is perfect. He has everything he needs. His freinds are always there for him there is no war no pian no fear. everything is peace. One day jona turned twelve he is assigned to recieve special traning from the giver a person that has memories of the past true pain. The giver thinks its time for jona to reciece the truth about his live. There is no turining back.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: Book Review
The Giver
By Lois Lowry..., is a book full of cliffhangers and unexpected events. It is about a young boy named Jonas who is never fearful because everything in his world is under control. There are no wars or choices, for Jonas lives in the Community where everyone is assigned a job and rules are strictly enforced.

When Jonas reaches a certain age group called the "Twelves" he is assigned a role like no other. His job is "alone and apart from everyone." Jonas is selected to receive special training from an elderly person called the Giver. He retreats to the Giver everyday and is called the "Receiver of Memories." Jonas soon discovers that he is named that because the Giver teaches him about things of the past that Jonas has never heard of. These things do not exist in the Community. The Giver introduces Jonas to things such as snow, sleds, runners, colors, downhill, and many other things that we experience in normal life. It is finally time for Jonas to receive the truth. The Giver presented to him all the pain and pure pleasure of "real" life. "There is no turning back."

I find it very interesting how Lois Lowry writes of a world that doesn't exist. I can relate to Jonas who apologizes many times though he doesn't do anything to warrant this. I think I know how Jonas felt on the first day going to the Giver. Why did he, of everyone in the Twelves have to receive special training when the last child assigned this job had failed?

Personally, I admire this book and can't put it down. My favorite part is when the "Ceremony of Twelves" comes around the corner. This event is when those in the group that are to turn twelve, are assigned a job they must attend to for the rest of their lives. Jonas is the last to receive a task. I felt excited for him and anxious to progress in the book. It is difficult to find a least favorite part of this book or to change it for the better. I think the book is excellent as written.

I would definitely recommend The Giver to those who enjoy suspenseful stories. There are no parts where one could predict what is going to happen next. The Giver does deserve the Newberry Medal, which it has been awarded.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is written by Lois Lowry. The book is about a boy called jonas. he lives in a community where are very strikt ruels.for every year there are ceremonies. in the ceremonie of 12 jonas gets the Receiver of Memory.
i find the book very interesting because it is very exciting and crazy. the book wasn't very difficult to read and understand.

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Summary: The Giver - my first english book ;)
Review: I think, that the book is very funny, because its an utopia ..
But I got very sad, because I didnÂ't understand a lot of words and I wasnÂ't sure if iÂ'm good enough in english .. because i thought, that this book was only for children .. and I have been learning english for 5 years and I thought, that IÂ'm not good enough .. :(!
But it was very nice to read that book, because i like those unrealistik thinks ..

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Summary: Review of The Giver
Review: In the novel "The Giver" from Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a community. In this community there is no color and no music and so on. There are very much rules that everyone has to keep. When Jonas gets his assignment as the new Reciever of Memory, he gets the bad experience of the community. He looses his friends because everything is a lie. He wants to escape to help the community.
Our opinion is that we think the novel is not realistic but it is very interesting and exciting.

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Summary: High imagination
Review: The book " The Giver " written by Lois Lowry is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a community where everything is controlled by the government. He's chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory. He starts to have doubts about the system and finally tries to escape.

It's a very imaginative book but sometimes it looses the connection to reality. It is a bit predictable, because you can imagine what the end will be like when you've read the first chapters.

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Summary: "The Giver" A truly amazing story
Review: This amazing story is about a boy who lives in a town with no worries, pain ,or guilt. Every year all of the kids who were twelve meet in a place called The Anex room to discuss their careers in life. The elders of the town get to decide which career goes to whom. Jonus the last to be called, hade been given the job of the receiver of memories. The job of the receiver is to take all of the horrible memories of the town untill the day of his near death, then he must give the memorries to anouther. If you want to read a book with hope love and excitement this is the book for you .This wounderful story is one of my favorite books that I have ever read. Ihope you will enjoy it too.

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Summary: Bad Ending
Review: Jonas's world is perfect. There is no fear or pain. Jonas has been chosen as the "Receiver of Memories" by the Giver. This book is an excellent book besides the ending. In the ending there wasn't much of a point. They ran away, and the memories went to the people.
It was a perfect world. You couldn't do any thing wrong or you would be released. Jonas later found out that release was a form of murder. You couldn't do anything wrong or you would be released. There was a pilot that flew in the wrong area so he was released. Some people would apply for release. I guess that was a form of suicide? Why would they want to do that?
In the book, The Giver, Jonas lived in a world where you couldn't experience pain or pleasures. Jonas had never experienced pain and when he did he experienced war and the pain of breaking a bone. Jonas's first memory was the memory of sledding down a hill. That was his first pleasure. He later visited a house with Christmas going on through the memories. It wouldn't be a life if you couldn't have something fun in your life. Jonas was kind of lucky for getting to do some of the fun things.
There was no color or sound. Everything was black and white. Jonas finally saw the color red. He saw an apple and Fiona's hair. Nobody else could see the color beside himself and the Giver. There wasn't any music. The Giver told Jonas that he first heard sound like Jonas saw the color red. Jonas later heard Christmas Carols in the Christmas memory.
Only one person could hold onto the memories. Jonas became the Receiver of memories. He was treated differently by all his friends after that. When Jonas ran away the memories were given to the people. The Giver told him that if he ran away that would happen. The reason they
held onto the memories was so that everybody wouldn't have to experience real life. Every thing was chosen for the people. Like when you were ten you would get your first bicycle. When you were twelve, you would be chosen a job. I think that it wouldn't be fair if you couldn't choose what you wanted to do for a living.
I think that the unbelievable part in this story was when Jonas saw his father release a newborn child. That would be weird for a twelve year old to become a birth mother. This book is just so different.
I wonder if there is pollution or anything else in this world that couldn't be perfect? I mean there were planes. How would they run if they didn't have internal combustion?
The book The Giver was a great book because it was so different. There wasn't anything like our world like music, color, pain, or pleasures. Since it really didn't have a good ending, maybe Louis Lowry can write a sequel to The Giver.

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Summary: The Giver - The WORST book i've ever read!!!
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry is a very opinionated book. Different people will think different things about the book and I think there are too many choices to make at the end of the story. In The Giver, a child named Jonas is getting his new 'assignment' for his life and he just happens to get the 'Receiver of Memory'. He then must receive memories of things that other people in the community do not know.

In the Giver, Lowry tried to make some sort of Utopia (Perfect World) and wanted to show that this would probably never happen and that this world might be perfect but there are still some flaws in it. The author also tries to show that our world also has flaws. I think the author tried to go too far into the future because it might be a long time until we invent or do things [are bad] as: people come and take your dishes at night, when you get hurt or have pain, they bring a pill to you and the pain just goes away.

I believe this book should not be intended for children or young adults, I think it should be for people 14 years and up. This book should not have been made for everyone because it shows a kid that committing suicide will get you out of a problem or a bad situation. This book haunts me in my sleep and I am 12, I'm not scared of hardly anything but this book scared me. Just think about it, would you want your child to be reading a book where a 12 year old washes and cleans and elderly person? Would you want your child to be reading a book where somebody injects a baby in the head with some sort of liquid? Would you want your child to be reading a book where a boy dreams of bathing a girl in his sleep? If I could, I would ban this book in any library or store. Because of these reasons, I give The Giver one out of five stars.