A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: Thank-you for this Roller Coaster!
Review: The whole idea of The Giver is something you would never even consider thinking about in real life. In a world with no emotions, or color, there isn't really much left in the word "life". A young boy lives with a family that was chosen for him, and for each other. The community he lives in decides who will get married, who will be a doctor, and even what a person will do when they are too old to work. This book makes you realize that life is supposed to be a roller coaster, and if it wasn't, life would be pretty bland. I liked the idea the author had in mind when she wrote the book-life is for love. The young boy gets a taste of what life really is, outside of his community, and sees how much more he is missing. There is love, but there is hate. And sometimes it's hard to deal with it when you're all alone.

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Summary: Great Book, Bad Ending
Review: I give The Giver four stars because it is a great book, but the ending is one which I myself did not understand. The Author, Lois Lowry, obviously put a lot of thought into each individual character. When you read the book it is as though the characters are there around you. You can see them. They come alive in your mind. Jonas, is a young boy who does not see the world with the same eyes as us, for he has grown in a community different from those in which we grew. There nothing has great importance as they do to us. Then his life is changed in a way his fellow citizens can not understand. Everything in his life is different. As you read, you can feel the pain that Jonas feels. It is some of the best characterization I have ever read. The community in which Jonas lives in strangely different from ours. Lois Lowry brings the community to life. She explains in detail how the community does certain things to keep perfection. It is as though she is in this community writing what she sees and hears, yet this community does not exist in real life. She lets you see into the ways of the community. For example, each night at dinner a certain amount of food is given to each family. If the family does not eat it all at supper they must put it in a container and set it on their doorstep so that the city maintenance crew can pick it up. This is something new to the reader and Lois Lowry brings it to life. Love is something that the community does not have. The pills they are required to take stops all feeling. Yet, when Jonas stops taking the pill and works with the Giver, he knows what love , sadness, happiness and loneliness are. He is starved for feeling. He does not like the idea that the Community has been deprived of such things. He knows it needs to change. This book is truly one that show the characters feeling. I think that Lois Lowry put a lot of emotion into this book. It is a superbly written piece and I see why it received the Newbery Award.

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Summary: All should read
Review: I think everyone should read this book. It had really good idea's about the perfect world. Jonas a boy who is about to turn 12 and going to find out about what his assigned job is going to be. he receives the most important job of all...the receiver of memory. He has to feel pain never felt before and see color in the world of black and white. I think this book was well written.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: This was a good book. It took me only about two hour to finished it. I wasn't really into it in the begining but once Jonas became a receiver and begin receiving thing about the past that was when I became hook. It was weird to think that the people in the community never seen colors and stuff. Although I was a little disappointed in the ending,the book could have been a little longer. I know he reached the outside and all but I'm not satisfy with it it was to choppy.

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Summary: the giver
Review: The Giver is a great science fiction book for young adults to read because it deals with tales and stories of human society from the past and tries to enlighten them in the present and future. The main characters were Jonas, who was a boy of twelve, has been selected to be the Receiver of Memory and The Giver, who once used to be the receiver and now has to give his power to Jonas. Jonas doesn't think it's fair that he has to suffer the pain of remembering so many secrets of the past while everyone else isn't. In their world, there were no colors, no pain, no love, and there's barely any choice to do what you want. After holding so much power of remembrance Jonas doesn't think that the world he lives in is a perfect world after all. So in the end Jonas and the The Giver makes a plan to escape the utopian world to find freedom and true life.

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Summary: I loved The Giver!~!
Review: I read the book The Giver(a science fiction book)by Lois Lowry.I thought this bbok had many different outlooks on life.The Giver is about a tewlve year old boy named Joans.Joans lives in a so called "perfect world".In the community he and his family and friends live in, they see everything in black and white.No one that lives in this community has feelings either.In this so called "perfect world" a boy inhabits a seemingly ideal world:a world without conflict,proverty,unemployment,devorice,injustice,or inequality.Teenage rebellion is unheard of and even good manners are a way of life. When the children in the community turn twelve they receive a life assignment determined by the Elders. I thought it was sad the way that no one in the community could feel love or know fear,or behave different from the rest of society.I hope our society will never end up in such an existence.When I read this book,I asked my self ...If things were always done that way,than why change?One thing that I thought was very impoartant was how in The Giver they stresed that happy feelings always come with sad feelings,and that love comes with hate.Also,learning never stops.A question Lois Lowry asked in this book was can people be happy without feelings?I thought about that question for some time know.I don't think that you can be happy without having feelings because happiness is an emotion.Readers will need to decise that question for them selves. I really enjoyed this book!I think that any person twelve or older should read it, just to get a different perspective on life.I hope Lois Lowry writes a sequel to The Giver!

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Summary: My Review (Original isn't it?)
Review: In Lois Lowry's THE GIVER, the main character Jona, lives in a ficticious community sometime in the future. His world revoloves around around the principle of "sameness." Everything is perfect. Unlike the real world today, in Jona's world there is no conflict, no unemployment, no poverty, no divorce, but most importantly, there is no change. Everyone in Jona's world has been sheltered from the past, sheltered from the memories of past pains and misfortunes. The only person in the community that knows the truth is the Giver. In December, during the Ceremony of Tweleve, Jona is given the highest honor, and a lifelong assignment to be the new Giver. Before he can step into his job full swing though, he must learn some valuable lessons from the old Giver. Through those teaching, Jona becomes the recipricant of all the memories, and learns the true hipocracy of the world which surrounds him. On a more personal note, I would just like to say that this is a fabulous book. It really makes you value the world in which you live in, and makes you cherish your ability to make your own decisions and have your own emotions.

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Summary: My view on the giver
Review: I thought that the giver was a very good book, it was very suspensful and I really got in to it. Some people may not like this book if you don't like sci-fi or if you are not a "in depth" reader. I loved it but the ending was a little confusing but a side from the begining I had to keep reading it was like a big magnet pulling me in and I'm only 13. Your parents might like this book, mine did.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is an intriguing story about a possible futuristic utopian society - a "perfect world" in which there is no pain, sadness, or discontent. One man in the community, the Giver, receives all the memories - pleasant and unpleasant - of the entire community. Jonas, a young boy, is assigned the position of Giver and begins to experience the memories of thousands other people. Jonas, having experienced life out of the perfect society, begins to realize the utopia is not as wonderful as it may have seemed; while the citizens do not experience pain or sadness, they do not experience color, or music, or any true pleasant feelings. Learning more, Jonas sees the truth behind the utopian society: people are just slaves to their ignorance and cannot think for themselves. Jonas decides that the only way he can free the citizens is to run away from the community, releasing the memories of the past.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: I truly felt this book is one of the best i have ever read. I am a 15 year old female and have read it three times total. One in 4ht grade for fun, another in 7th for class, and again this year to just sort-of remember what it was all about. It made me think about how lucky we are in life to have our different styles,possesions,and feelings/emotions. - LOVED THE BOOK! ~~~jillian :))))))):):):):P :D :D:D:D:D;p