Rating: 
Summary: The Giver
Review: I really liked this book. It started off a bit slow at first but after awhile the pace started to pick up. It was usetting and sad though to see how terrible and boring it would be to live in a world without choices, differences, and love. I didn't completely understand the ending but if I was in Jonas's place I would have done the same thing that he did in the end.
Rating:
Summary: incredible world, plot lacking
Review: I really admire Lois Lowry's writing style in this novel. She does an excellent job giving the reader a full and detailed picture of Jonas' life in the community, and the restrictions that they placed on the citizens. This is an example of the ultimate controlled environment in which no infraction or unpredictable element is tolerated. This book has a lot of potential, but I think it falls far short in the plot. Much of the story seemed to be collections of situations in the life of Jonas, and only at the end did he actually execute a plan to give the memories back to the people. Even this was not thoroughly explored. I enjoyed reading this book, but I think it could have been a lot longer and more intriguing.
Rating:
Summary: This was really good
Review: I really enjoyed this book. The plot, I thought, was very imaginative. Lois Lowry added a lot of detail, and did a very good job describing the memories. I thought she did a very good job at showing how bad this type of soceity really was. The idea that no one was truly an individual is scary. I would have given this book 5 stars, but I didn't really like the end that much. It ended very abruptly, and left a lot to the imagination.~JP~ Ipswich High School
Rating: 
Summary: A world of complete control.
Review: This book, the Giver, is an amazing book. It's a story of a child brought up in a world that's completely regulated and controlled by the rulers. They control climate, color, looks, birth, jobs, choices and even feelings. They don't allow memory of the past or new ideas for the future. Everyone is considered equal. Now, Jonas sees his community safe enough until he recieves the respectful job of the giver. In his learnings he begins to understand that if anything did happen to his commuity no one would be able to help themselves because they don't know anything about the past or feel actual pain or suffering. It is up to Jonas to save his community and himself from whatever comes their way. I rated this book 5 stars because it's extremely original and creative. The details about life with no feeling or memory are vivid. I recommend this book to people for all ages because it makes you think of how lucky you are to live in a world with freedoms.
Rating:
Summary: A GREAT READ!!!
Review: I read The Giver when I was 13 years old and to this day (I'm now 18) it has remained one of my favorite books of all time. This book is frightening in its cold portrayal of the future; horrifying in its descriptions of emotionless, ignorant people, yet it is an ultimately touching, eye-opening story. Lois Lowry's straightforward, simple writing style makes it possible for people of almost all ages to read The Giver; her interwoven themes of unrelenting hope and love in a lost, scared community make The Giver an absolutely necessary read.
Rating:
Summary: Lauren's review
Review: I thought that The Giver was an excellent book. I loved the way that Lois Lowry depicted a world without memories of legends. It was an original plot, and I think it would be scary if such a thing really did happen, that the entire world lost touch with its roots, save for one person burdened with having to keep the memories. This one person, the Receiver, had to then call upon the memories to help save the community in the book. I know that if something like that ever did happen, Franklin MA. and Franklin High School, not to mention the rest of the world, would be devoid of all emotion. This would be devastating because we need emotions to be human.
Rating: 
Summary: What the Giver gives you.
Review: I felt that the Giver was a good book that showed kids the importance of emotions and their historical backround. I enjoyed the easy reading of Lowry's novel because I was never lost in it. It was also cool that the book took place in some "other" world that isn't like ours.
Rating:
Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a really cool. It is about a boy who is chosen by the elders of his Utopia type community to have one of the most honored, but painful job a the reciever. He must recieve all the memorys in the world. Memorys of good times, memorys of war, unknown to his somewhat "perfect" community. But when he realizes these are mere memorys, he desides to pursue his own life, not chosen by a bunch of old people. So one night he escapes the community with his baby brother "newchild", Gabe. He rides on his bike through the woods, encountering strange animals unknown to him, and terible snow storms. Then, he looks over a hill and he sees a city. But not just any city, a NORMAL city.
Rating:
Summary: Great Book that no one can miss
Review: In the 5th Grade I read THE GIVER with my class. It was a story that took a while to understand, but once you did you didn't want to put it down. The story is about a boy named Jonas living in a perfect society, no crime, no poverty, no nothing. He has no idea of his birth parents or siblings. All he knows is that from now on his life is living there and consuming the starnge job of Reciever. This is a kind of book where you have to be mature. There are a couple of parts that have to take a serious person to sit and read with no laughing. So, I strongly say to read this book
Rating:
Summary: A good book for a quick read
Review: Jonas is living in a controlled community where everything seems to be perfect. Everyone is the same. There is no color, emotions, and such to separate them from one another. Beginning and ending in December, every child born within that year is in a group together in which they all progress at the same pace. The newborn children are placed in a nurturing center until the next December comes along. Then they are each distributed to a family unit that has applied for a child after being cared for by The Nurturers. Family units have two children, a boy and a girl. Every year a ceremony in December is held that advances all children born in the same year up to the next age. In the Ceremony of One children receive names, Ceremony of Nine children receive Bicycles, Ceremony of Twelve children receive jobs, and so on. Jonas is nearing the 'Ceremony of Twelve' at which he and his group of Twelves will be receiving their assignments. After being presented to the community as The Receiver, the highest position of honor, he is to begin receiving his training from The Giver, who will give him memories of life's pain and pleasure. Jonas soon discovers that the community is not as perfect as he had once thought. I enjoyed reading The Giver and gaining an idea of how cruel one would have to be in order to support perfection. The situations of our lives in this imperfect world that could not be prevented and the ways in which those situations were attended to in the controlled community were interesting to think about. I believe that The Giver is a genuinely entertaining book for all ages.
|
