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Summary: The Giver
Review: Jonas's world is perfect. He lives in a place where there is no crime and everybody is colorblind. They have ceremonies at the age of 12, where all children receive jobs. Jonas gets the job of receiver. He gets to receive memories from the old receiver known to Jonas as "The Giver." Then everything goes wrong. He gets to see how people are "dismissed" from the community, and he finds out his dad is a murderer. I liked this book because Jonas finds out how his life is about to change. The memories he receives, both good and bad, help him through his journey. I would recommend this book.
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Summary: Good book
Review: Really makes you think. It makes you think about how grateful you should be for what you have and how bad some things really are but because we are used to it we think nothing of it. For example I play this 3rd shooter game, after I read the book, I realized how bad the concept was, just killing someone else, because we are used to it, we just think its nothing, but it really is horrible, especially war in real life. You have to read it to understand.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: I think that you will like THE GIVER. It about a kid name Jonas he live in a would were there is no violence and Jonas see things that know one can see on lee THE GIVER can see the thing he see. When you turn 12 years old you get jobs. I think that THE GIVER is one of the best books there is.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: This book is incredible! I enjoyed every minute reading it. Some people say that the ending is unclear, but I loved the ending. It lets people make up their own ending. For example: some people think Jonas dies in the end, while others think he really finds Elsewhere and continues his live there. I think people could start reading the book in 6th grade, so that there are a lot of different analysis and not just those of older people who maybe think a bit more.
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Summary: Perfect World
Review: When I first started I didn't get it. The story is about a boy and the world is perfect no pain, no fear, no emotion . Jonah gets the job as Giver and they give him the memories of the past of the real world but when he gets emotions he feel sorry for a baby who they are going to kill. My favorite part is the end when he dies going down a snow hill dreaming there is a warm house .
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Summary: to the author
Review: Dear Louis Lowry:I had just finished reading your book The Giver. It was a very astonishing book I have read. I like the background community you have built for the kid in. It¡¯s so imaginary and adventurous, where you need to think about it before you imagine it. I think the story was spectacular and makes you think if there is really a world in another dimension like that. I think that the story resembles about a creator and his people, but then in the story it¡¯s all perfect like nothing can go wrong and the weather is perfect at all the time. It is a predictable society, like people know what¡¯s going to happen next in the future. I like the idea you used like where the boy named Jonas has to help fix the society to make it imperfect cause people make mistakes and no one is perfect. It was like Jonas was the chosen one like in the matrix where Morphous had to look for the chosen one which was Neo. Jonas receives memories of both suffering and joy. In doing so, Jonas also learns that his community does not truly experience real joy or real pain. Jonas and the Giver are the only people who are able to see in color, and the only ones who can feel love. When Jonas learns that the community actually murders those who fail to conform to its rules, he resolves to change things. He and the Giver concoct a plan of escape for Jonas. Because there is no one who is old enough to take Jonas's place, the community will then be forced to bear the burden of the world's memories. As I come to the end I find the book very interesting. I recommend this book to everyone, and people who like to imagine a lot and go beyond their imagination. I am very inspired by your literacy. Also I hope to be able to read other book by you. Your talent is very extraordinary, and I am pleased that I was able to read a book such as The Giver.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: This was a veary nice book
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Summary: it was so good but very confusing
Review: the giver is a book that I didentunder stand alote of the words I wodent give this book to some one under 10 years of ageor a new reader .PS. have a dictionary on hand.
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Summary: Great but confusing
Review: I thought that this book was a great but it was kind of confusing. I would not recomend this book for kids under 10. If I had to read it again I wouldn't.
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Summary: Haunting and Deep
Review: I got this book from the library because my sister, who is only eleven, reccomended it to me. She said she enjoyed it, but obviously she couldn't have understood its true depth. I read this book in one afternoon, since it is short and the language simple, but it haunted me for days. This book made me so glad to be human; it made pain feel wonderful just because I could *feel*. The only word for it is spectacular. It made me cry when I found out about Rosemary, and I was ecstatic when Jonas took Gabe with him. The ending is a bit unclear, but I think it was meant to be that way. This book will never end, since we all have our own ideas about what will happen next. I love books that end that way, since they can just make me think for days on end. Some people have said that this book is sick, and not something they'd want their kids to read. I think that that's censorship, and isn't that something that this book talks about? In the book no one is allowed to read books, for fear that they might actually - gasp - think! By saying that you wouldn't want your kids to read this, aren't you doing the same thing? This book isn't sick, it just inspires contemplation. The plot is beautiful and at the same time frightening. I could spend years analyzing it, since it has to many different meanings. I found it terrifying, since Lois Lowry is clearly warning us about what might happen if people continue the way we're going: We long for perfection, but can there truly be a perfect world? I doubt it, since a "perfect" world would end individuality and rebellion. This book is wonderful, but it's not really suited for sixth-graders. If I were a teacher, I'd prefer to have ninth-graders study it, since I'm sure they would understand it much better. I'm thirteen, but I'm a bit ofa philosopher, and the other people in my grade who read this book didn't really grasp its true meaning. This is an amazing book. It may be a bit strange, but, all you people who say that it's sick and you'd never let your kids read it, have you even stopped to contemplate it? It's people like that who made Jonas's world the way it was. Think about it.
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