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Summary: The collest book yet!
Review: This book The Giver is the best book that I have read all this summer. I'm in the 8th grade at Lainer Middle School, and are language arts class read this book. At first I was not so shure that this book would be good but after we started to read it I just kept on wanting to read it and read it.I gave this book A 5 star cause it's wort it .This book always keeps you wondering what is going to happen next. There are also somethings in this book that are just sick in some ways . There for you is my REVIEW on this wonder full book The Giver... I wish that everyone would read this book it well make you think about what you have .
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Summary: Highly Recomended!
Review: This is a fabulous book! When this book first came out, I read the reviews and decided that I needed to read this one, even though I am an adult. It was very good! I couldn't wait for my daughter to become old enough to read it as well, she was in the 3rd grade at the time. Well, my daughter read the book this last year and she now lidts it as one of her favorite books as well, right up there with "The Phantom Tollboth", "A Wrinkle in Time" and the Harry Potter books! What makes this book so wonderful, is that it makes you think beyond the black and whites in life. It helps put importance on memories of pain and sadness as a necessary part of hapiness. I would strongly recomend this book to anyone from the 5th grade and up!
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Summary: I think I missed something
Review: Maybe it's just me. Because some people loved this book. I missed the Christ allegory, apparently, and I guess I was wrong about the point of the story. I wanted to know more about how the communities worked; I was properly spooked by the assignment of jobs to twelve-year-olds with the line, "Thank you for your childhood," but I wanted to know what happened later on. The story seemed to end without ending, and the big secret revelation was obvious to me from the start. Unpleasant, to be sure, but hardly surprising.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was a very good book, no doubt about it. Any book your read that gives you a whole new world always keeps you wanting to read more.Living in a perfect world with no worries, fear or pain, its just keeps getting more interesting. New things that you'd never have guessed would happen. Then only dissapointment about this book was that fact that then ending really had no point. But all in all, this, i would have to say, is a very good book.
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Summary: The Giver by Lois Lowry -- your life is important
Review: The story takes place in a futuristic town, where the Elders Council make all the decisions and choices for each person, including life or death. Everything in this town is too perfect and under control. In this town there is no war, pain, hunger, homelessness, love, sorrow or real feelings of any kind, but while this might sound like something good the sacrifice you make for it is not worth it to me. The main character is a boy named Jonas. Jonas is quiet, follows the rules and has dreams of things he can't explain or understand or share with anyone. When Jonas turns twelve he is selected to be the new Receiver of Memories or future Giver, then everything in Jonas's life becomes different. The Giver is a person who makes sure the rules are clear,when asked for guidance, and the only person who holds in his mind all the memories of history, life and feelings. At first learning the memories are painful and disturbing to Jonas because having true emotions and feelings arenew to him.In a short time Jonas becomes an eager learner but the knowledge causes Jonas to question the society he lives in and now finds less than perfect. The story made me think how easy this could really happen here at any time if we don't pay close attention to what is really happening around us. People are always trying to think up all kinds of rules so they don't have any problems. I wish to God this never happens to us but if it does I hope I can get away before it is to late. I don't want to live in a world where anyone different is RELEASED. The book also made me sad after I realized what was really happening and that if I lived there the day I just enjoyed at the beach would never occur. It also made me think that there are some things in my own life that maybe I should work on so that no one would ever think about RELEASING me. I strongly recommend this book to others because it really makes you think about your own life and how important your life is to you.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: I first read this book when I was 21 and more than a little hesitant to read what I deemed a "children's book." I could not have been more wrong. This is an amazing book. A new 1984 aimed at young adults, but an unbelievably great read for persons of all ages. This is one of the only books I have ever been able to read more than once, and it has not yet ceased to amaze me. I highly reccomend this for readers of all ages, and see it as one of the best written and most original stories I have come across.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry should be on all reading lists for middle schoolers because it inspirs its readers. With every new chapter, there are new suprises that await the reader. For example the main character had no idea he would be chosen to be the Giver. This book deserves a four stars because in some places it was just a little too confusing for some yonger readers. Some of the confusion comes from the advanced vocabulary and complacated plot. On the other hand for older readers the advanced vocabulary and plot only add to Lois Lowrys spectacular novle.
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Summary: Interesting
Review: I had to read this book for school, so maybe that tainted my judgement, but I thought it was good none the less. It was kind of weird, and the end wasn't as satisfying as I would have liked. It was one of those books that you think about more everytime you read them. If you are looking for an quicker read than Harry Potter, then read this.
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Summary: A book with appeal beyond the science fiction genre
Review: Like A Wrinkle in Time and Tuck Everlasting, Lois Lowry's The Giver is a book with appeal beyond the science fiction genre. It would interest a general audience looking for a story about what societies value in human terms. It is a sophisticated book. Both Jonas and the reader are on parallel courses, both gradually realizing the dilemma Jonas faces. The reader begins innocent of the fictional setting, and discovers how it functions as the story unfolds. Jonas, the 12-year-old protagonist, on the other hand, knows nothing about societies in the past like our own and finds out step by step. The dramatic climax of the book comes when the two converge. Lowry has imagined an intricate future society, with some recognizable elements such as nuclear families, but other foreign combinations, such as birthdays for all people on one day a year. It seems to be a society that has taken social science ultilitarianism to an extreme. Their language has a clinical sound, such as "comfort object" for a teddy bear, and more poetic terms like "love" have no place. The author has done a clever job at "seducing" the reader by creating a society with many desirable traits. One can see the reasons for the choices the leaders made and that makes the drama and provocativeness of the book even greater. It is a book that works skillfully on both the intellectual and emotional levels. Recommended to readers 15 and older.
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Summary: The Giver: A Review
Review: The Giver is a page turner; it was so good that I found myself reading it for hours at a time. Obviously, I liked it very much. The book is set in the world of the future, a world that looks almost perfect on the surface, but which is very difficult for some within it. The central characters are Jonas and the Giver. Jonas is a sensitive boy of twelve who is the Receiver of Memory. It is the Givers's job to pass theses memories along to Jonas. When Jonas gets most of the memories, it is very painful for him, because he can see the real pain that happens in the past while others in his community can't. Great efforts are made to keep the people of the community free from things that can be "difficult"-- such as snow, sun, or any other extremes of weather. The people are also given pain pills frequently if they feel any discomfort at all. There are no racial tensions because the people in this society can't see color. Some believe this is the best possible society. However, Jonas and the Giver realize that to make things "perfect" incredible sacrifices are made. For example, old people are put to death, and families don't have children-- they are given to them from the Nurturing Center. Babies who aren't perfect are "released," which means they are killed. One of my favorite scenes in the book is when Jonas escapes from this community at the end of the book , and makes a run for his freedom from this very controlling society. I was so glad for him, because I wouldn't want anyone to live in that kind of place. This book makes the reader realize that not having everything "perfect" is a very good thing after all. I gave The Giver the highest rating possible because it was written in a way that kept me interested, and because it is really important for people to realize that a "perfect" society isn't worth striving for. It is much better to live in a world with lots of different people in it from lots of different races, and just do the best we can to help those among us who aren't "perfect," -- in other words-EVERYBODY!
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