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Summary: The Giver
Review: Many people believe their community is perfect... but is it? Is it perfect or is it something else. Jonas, a young twelve year old boy, stars to see things beyond his plain and bland community. It seems he alone sees this. Is it his pale eyes or is he just hallucinating. Find out and read this exciting book. I love this book due to its great heartstopping moments.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: Jonas lives in a perfect community, no disease, no worries, no pain,and no war. I liked this book because it's full of mystery and excitement. Jonas is an ordinary boy in his ordinary household. Miraculously he is singled out, selected, to be the new reciever. Why him? Read and find out!
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Summary: The Giver Within!
Review: This book is a very deep book you really have to pay attention to, or you'll lose what your reading. It is mainly about a boy named Jonas who thinks his community is perfect, but when he finds out about the outside world, and he being the special receiver of memory he wants to learn more and tell all. I'll stop here, but if you find this book READ IT!
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Summary: The Giver
Review: Before and as I read The Giver, I heard constant compliments and praise on how it is such a fantastic book. I too agree with most peoples' opinion, for I found it a very well written book along with very interesting; however, I felt the ending to be unsatisfying. Obviously, the conclusion is meant to be hanging, allowing the reader to use their imagination to predict what could have happened, but it didn't seem to fit the rest of the book. As I read the book, I enjoyed the great details and could even picture everything as it happened, and to have an ending as it did, I was surprised. The book shows a glimpse into a world with no memories. Supposedly this is a 'utopia.' But again, I question this. Jonas and everyone else live in a world of no memories, knowing nothing of the past, with the exception of Jonas and the giver. With no memories of the past, the pain and the bad, along with all the good, what leaves them to learn from their mistakes. Being in a world with no memories to learn from, the world would be chaotic, constantly making the same mistakes over and over again.
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Summary: Jason Numbers (Holliston, MA) Review of The Giver
Review: I liked this book mainly for one reason. It really gets you thinking. This is a what if book on how things would be if everything were uniform. This book was interesting because it kept taking sharp and unexpected turns. You never knew where the author was taking you. Although I personally did not like how the book ended it didn't take much away from the book. I like much different endings than the one that this book had. I gave it a three because it became confusing at parts and as I previously mentioned I would have preferred a better, but overall the author makes you think about some very intriguing concepts and does a great job keeping my attention. This is hard, because I often like to doze off while reading, which I found really hard to do because I always wanted to know what came next.
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Summary: "Heaven" on Earth is always a Hell
Review: Impressive book. It not only reminds me of "Brave New World," but also of Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" and Kurt Vonnegut's short story, "Welcome to the Monkeyhouse." It's not just for adults and teenagers, but also children, although parents will need to explain some of the things--infanticide, suicide, euthanasia. Adults might wonder if the author is making a political point somewhere. I wonder it myself. Maybe she's not though, although these novels about dystopias are almost always political. This type of society could only exist under complete leftist totalitarian control (with the enforced equality), although the repression of sexuality is a type of conservative belief. Like many others, I found the ending unsatisfying. Is he dreaming, or is it real? It's up to us to choose. Personally, I choose the happy ending.
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Summary: Interesting idea makes a great book
Review: I've read this book several times, and I've enjoyed it each time. The ending has always seemed a bit contrived to me, as if Lowry was up against a deadline and needed to end the story. Just the same, the idea of a society in which all choices were outlawed and they needed a single person to carry all their memories and their history is intriguing. It's a book to make us appreciate the society we live in, knowing that even if we do often make the wrong choices, at least we have the ability to make those choices.
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Summary: Not just like eveyone else.
Review: I think that this book was excellent. It defied the usual "this happens, then this, blah blah" standard of many other books I have read. It makes you think, and I like that. I can also relate to Jonas, because, like him, I feel that I am somewhat "different". I recommend this book to anyone who feels unique or like there is a bigger, better place out there.
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Summary: Great Book for Kids
Review: There are two themes in this book which I really liked. The first, as Jonas learned after becoming the Receiver, is that without pain and sorrow, people are less able to appreciate joy. The second theme I liked was that the freedom to make one's own choices and determine one's own fate necessarily involves accepting the risk of making mistakes and failing. These two themes made the book worthwhile for me. I felt the book started out a little bit slow, and the ending left me feeling somewhat unsatisfied, but from the point where Jonas becomes the Receiver up to the point where he and the Giver make their fateful decision, this book was an interesting read with a good message to it.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: This book absolutely blew me away! Lowry's portrayal of this futuristic utopia is both inviting and chilling. At the beginning, the easy simplicity of the life led by Jonas and his family seems like the perfect answer to our chaotic lifestyle. But as Jonas begins to receive the world's memories and to discover that his world is not perfect, "utopia" becomes eerie and even horrifying, as such secrets as the "release" of children are revealed. The ending, although somewhat predictable, is well suited to the story, and is the only feasable way that Jonas can continue to exist with the knowledge that he possess. Amazingly well written and a wonderful story!
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