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Summary: What Price Utopia?
Review: I found this book to be thoroughly thought provoking. It went well beyond the bounds of a childrens book. It made you think of all the sacrifices to humanity that would be made to make a "Utopia" reality. In a since it reminded me of "A Clockwork Orange". It did this because it involved the subjugation or control of natural human urges. Hey, close to a thousand people have reviewed this book. Why not buy it and draw your own conclusions?
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Summary: Confusing, but good
Review: Our grade 6 class had to read the giver. I liked it, but the end didn't make sence. Jonas lives in a world that is perfect. They can't see colors, and they get assigned a job when they are 12. Each family has a mother, a father, a girl and a boy. This book was ok, but I would reccomend this book to 12 year olds and up.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: This is a book about a very boring place, but it starts to get exciting at the end. If you read this book, you should see Pleasantville.
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Summary: Worthy of Awards? I Think Not
Review: My opinion of "The Giver", is the same opinion as theone I have about Puley Shore movies. They're quite entertaining in thebeginning, but after awhile, the plot gets dull and eventually loses its flavor. The idea of having a perfect society is a good idea for a story, but dragging out the idea that the characters have no emotions gets a tad bit annoying. I get the idea that the characters have no emotions, but Lois Lowery has to tell the reader every other sentence. She acts like the reader is going to forget or something. I admit, the beginning of the story is good; how Lowery tells you about the society's rules, and the Giver's job, but after all that is said, she says the same thing over again. And the ending was the worst ever in the history of literature. This is a horrible book. I suggest it to people who like to get cheated when they read or anyone who saw "Lost in Space."
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Summary: Perfect or Not?
Review: I think The Giver was an excellent book. I would recommend that book to everyone. Lois Lowry did a great job in describing the details and keeping the readers attention. I don't think I lost interest once; it was hard to put the book down for one second. I disagree with what other readers had to say. People say that the society Jonas lived in was perfect? After thinking about it, I don't see a perfect society in my mind. I didn't like the fact that everyone had bikes instead of cars. What's the reason for that? Everyday was the same weather. I know some people like different weather than others, but a little variety wouldn't hurt. Also, another reason for its imperfect existence is the purpose of release. I find that cruel the way that they do that to people; I don't find that perfect at all. I'm an active person and I don't like how everyone in the story was lazy. It seemed as if they were all slaves and they had no freedom. The characters had no feelings about life. In today's society you have to work hard to achieve a perfect family, house, and lifestyle, but there isn't anyone who has a perfect life. Everyone has some problems or difficulties in life, but in The Giver, everything was good. I know today's society is out of control, but I think the community in the story is torture. Life is an adventure, but not in The Giver. Everything we go through in life serves a purpose, so think about if the town is perfect or not. The Giver is an excellent book and I recommend you read it.
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Summary: The greatest novel
Review: Jonas lives in a perfect society. No pain, no color, and nolove. Jonas has to worry about turning twelve. When he finally does,he is chosen to perform a specific role in his "Community". Jonas has been selected to be Receiver of Memory. The Giver, the previous Receiver of Memory, has to pass on the memories of the whole world to Jonas. The Giver has enlightened me. Lois Lowry has taken true life and has molded it with fiction, to create the greatest story about utopia that I have ever read. She used descriptive characters and a great story line. This story will most likely stay with me for long time.
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Summary: The Robotic Society
Review: The Giver is a great book about a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas. In Jonas's community receiving the assignment of The Receiver honored him. In this society there is no pain, color, not even real feelings. These people in Jonas's community in a sense were brainwashed. From the beginning of their lives they were trained to speak common phases such as "I apologize for my inconvenience," and "I accept your apology." In the community, it is common practice to share each other's feelings of the day at dinner with family units. However, these people can not explain their feelings properly. Once, during dinner Lilly, Jonas's sister, told how she met with kids from neighboring community and became angry at how they broke the rules. However, she did not realize that they didn't know or didn't have the same rules. I believe the book is mainly about humanity. I find it very hard that a utopian society could ever exist. I believe that human beings need emotions such as fear, danger, love, and even hate. Without these emotions people would never be human; they would simply be mindless robots willing to obey. In reading this book I have learned that having imperfections is only part of being a human being.
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Summary: A World of Sameness
Review: The Giver This is another excellent selection by Lowry. Herdetailed description and vivid writing guide the story along verywell. The Giver is a quick book because once you start it, you can'tput it down. Personally, this book was well worth my time and I reccomend that all of you consider reading it. It's about a boy named Jonas who lives in a community in the far away furture. The world he lives in is perfect. No one has a choice about anything from whom their spouce should be to what job they should choose. They don't even make their own children! A person is selected to do this job. Every one is the same and every one develops the same. Children even have their birthdays on the same day. The rules are very complicated because they don't want the world to go back to the same state as it was long before their time. When Jonas turns twelve, he gets the highly honored job of keeping all of the memories, the painful and wonderful feelings of the past. He recieves the memories from the Giver who recieved the same memories from another giver generations ago. They are passed down in a continuous cycle from one Giver to the next. It is important that only the Giver recieves the memories so that the community isn't overwhelmed by all of the feelings which they never knew existed. If the memories were to excape the Givers, whether it be through death or release, the community would go back to its wretched ways of long ago. Some of the memories are painful but some are also joyful memories of things such as colors, birthday parties and love. This is a great book that I think deserved the John Newbury Medal, which it was awarded. The people in this world do not see the colors, they don't have love, and they don't know of war and death. If there were such a world, I would fear that it would be too fragile if anything abnormal occurred. I would much rather have a more prepared and experienced community like we have today than to sacrifice the pleasures of life for a delicate world of sameness. When reading this inspiring story, it makes you think, "What has the world come to?" Although, I do believe that it is a rather critical point of view for such a real-life topic, it still makes you think. It is almost immpossible to imagine a world without violence or crime. An infalible world of sameness.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a good book that shows you that even when it is a perfect world there are still bad things that can hppen.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver may have won the Newberry Book Award, but there are acouple of places in the book that didn't make sense, such as the ending. What happened, he startes rolling down the hill then goes into a house with x-mas lights, did he die or something? What exactly happened to him? We as a class hade to read this book and are tolled to write a review at Amazon, because thats were we got the books. Many of my calss mates didn't understand the ending.
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