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Summary: The Giver
Review: The GiverIn this book Lois Lowry the whole city is controlled and organized. There is a yung boy named Jonas. He went to the ceremony of 12 were there is a celebration of getting a job assigned to the new 12s. Jonas is assigned the most honorable job in the community, he is the new recieve. His job is to carry the memories from so long ago. he now knows suffering, famine, burns and color. Jonas goes to an annex after school and receive bit by bit of the memories I liked this book because it gives me an idea of what it would be like to live in a totally controlled and forced environment. Not making choices, having everything assigned to you, your kids how many of them, your job, your bikes and your houses. Its also very interesting how my teacher read it to us.
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Summary: a reviewfrm div 6-7 kid
Review: The book starts off the main character Jonas recaling a memory about a plane flying over the community and every one is scared from there he looks forword to receiving his job at the ceremony of 12 were they dont say his name .............. REVIEW This book was a little diffrent because there every thing was the same each ''family unit'' has 2 children 1 male 1 female and 2 parents , every house is the same .Each year they go up one year until they are 12 when they receive there assignments, sort of there jobs. I think this book was very good, it was full of surprises . this book was very good read it!
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver
By Lois Lowry The Giver is an enjoyable book about a boy who is 11 turning 12.
He lives in a community that is all the same,
If there are twins one gets "realeased," when you are 12 you are considered an adult and you are given your job.
They feel no pain, The weather is always purfect.... But Jonas isn't
satisfied... and the Council of Elders is about to give him the most difficult Job of all. He alone will feel the pain.....
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Summary: The Giver: One of the best books I've ever read!
Review: The Giver is a book about a boy named Jonas who lives in a town with laws about sameness. Sameness is when every thing is the same; the same colour, the same weather, the same landscape. Jonas's Ceremony of Twelve is coming up. This is when he is assigned his job. He is very apprehensive, as he has no idea what job he will be assigned. Jonas knows that once he gets assigned his job, everything will change; his recreation time with his best friend Asher and the importance of his school work. I really enjoyed The Giver because Lois Lowry is a very good author and the plot and characters are very unique. It was a book that I really got into, and I finished it in a few hours, I was so caught up in it! I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a really good read. The Giver might be a little challenging for fairly young readers, but it is ideal for stronger readers.
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Summary: A dreamers paradise-
Review: In a world where freedom and the past mean nothing, a young boy waits for his assignment. Seeing through the memories that he had never known, he realizes that there was once color, animals, love, and war. The community is blind. They are told what to feel and how to live. For anyone that loves the unreal, the things that could never happen, and the memories that make us human, this book delves into a blank mind. It makes us realize that everybody is based on their past and their ability to change their own destiny. This is an awesome book.
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Summary: Surface and Symbol
Review: From Oscar Wilde's Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray: "Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril." A good pick for readers at both the middle-school level and the high school level, Lowry's prize-winning novel takes her audience beneath the surface of Jonas' world. When he begins to see beyond and beneath the perfect exterior of the Community, Jonas as well as the reader must make a difficult choice. This is a very good book to spark discussions about our society today, our future, and our choices. I would wholeheartedly recommend this book, especially in a classroom setting. Lowry's gifts of characterization, symbolism, and emotion make this a truly great find.
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Summary: An Awesome Read
Review: The Giver, by Lois Lowry, has a great plot and supporting characters. Jonas, a boy of 12, lives in a family unit in his community. He serves as the main character who will question all of the rules he has known in his life. This novel is like a combination of Brave New World and Wait till Helen Comes. The themes of normal everyday life as we know it are broken by Lowry's great imagination. If you enjoy a slight bit of fanasty and a relief from the norms, Lowry offers the Giver as a great reward. This is one of the best novels I have ever read.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was an exceptional book. Lois Lowry does an excellent job of describing normal everyday things in new fascinating ways. The book starts out slow but once you read past the slow parts. It' a phenomenal book.
Jake
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Summary: Remarkable
Review: The Giver By: Lois Lowry Once you pick up The Giver you can't put it down. Lois Lowry made this book so good it will keep you guessing until the very end.
The main character, Jonas is getting really nervous. Why you may ask? He is getting ready to turn twelve. In his town when you turn twelve you are assigned a job. If you don't do the job to the best of your ability you are released. Jonas is assigned to the most important job in the whole town. He was assigned the Receiver. The Receiver before him was released. So it was up to him to the very best he could.
Jonas is allowed to ask questions. So he asked what happened to him when you're released. The person who trains him, The Giver, shows him a video of what happens. Jonas was shocked. The Giver also tells Jonas that when he applies for a spouse, he can't tell her anything about what happens at work. The job is also painful. Those two things may drive Jonas to do something nobody expected.
The Giver is one of the best books I've ever read. I would definitely recommend this book.
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Summary: Deceptively Simple, Undeniably Deep
Review: Referred to me by my wife, an elementary teacher, I was not especially excited at first to read this book. But, being an avid reader and believing that every book deserves a chance, I picked up The Giver and very soon found that I couldn't put it down. The Giver is the story of Jonas, a boy who lives in a futuristic 1984-esq society, where everything appears to be perfect. Selected to become the next "Receiver of Memory," the most important role in the community, Jonas is sent for training to a man who gives his name only as "The Giver."
Although a little slow to start, the story quickly picks up as Jonas begins to see the world in a way he never imagined before, and the reader quickly begins to see a world that we may not be to far from, a world that we may want to avoid creating at all costs.
As a future teacher myself, I feel confident in saying that the book itself is fairly easy reading, and could probably be read as early as 4th or 5th grade. The content, however, may be more appropriate for middle school or even high school. While the story does work on several levels, and could be understood by younger kids, there is a scene in the book that may be disturbing for them. But that is, in the end, the overall purpose of the book: to disturb us, to make us think and consider the nature of humanity and the cost of "perfection."
The Giver is a truly amazing book, one written with eerie clarity and foresight, one that could change your way of thinking in many, many ways.
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