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A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Ending? Did it end?
Review: This was one of the best books I had ever read, until the ending. In fact, if there hadn't been anymore pages left in the book, I wouldn't have know it had ended. I loved it up until that point. The in depth detail and description of the memory transfers made me feel like I was there, receiving them. The whole subplot with Gabe was really fun to. I makes you stop and think about how wonderful it is to be able to make our own choices. All in all, a very good book.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: A Thinker
Review: The Giver was a book which made me think. It was a great descriptive book. You knew what was going on and why it was going on at all times. It was kind of sad though. I couldn't imagine being in a society where nothing changes, no choices are made, and everyone looks basically the same. A world without color? Without music? Without holidays? It portrayed our life, real life, as a fable, a mere legend. Like The Matrix, it makes you think. We're lucky to have what we have in life...especially choices.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Sherette's Review
Review: "The Giver" by Lois Lowery was certainly one the best books I have ever read. It is hard to imagine a world without color, pain, and music. The relationship that the people had with one another were really strange. The thought of having your career choosen for you was really different. It is hard to imagine a world like the one described in this book. This book was excellent.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Giver for VHS assignment
Review: Jonus lives in the perfect society, no war, no sickness, and no color. When Jonus turns twelve, he receives his job assignment: the Receiver. All of the sudden none of the rules apply to Jonus, he can do and say whatever he wants. His training is the most physically and mentally demanding job of the entire town, and is assigned every six to seven decades. He receives memories from the past from the Giver, in order to counsel the Elders. The memories he receives are both pleasant and painful, beautiful and horrific. None of the people in the town have these memories because how would a perfect society react to their not so perfect ancestors. Many have failed at becoming the Giver. Jonus is faced with many tough decisions that will affect the entire community, the future is entirely up to him.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The best book in the WORLD!
Review: I loved this book! It is about a boy who lives in a "community" where there is no poverty, no pain, no hunger. Every year there is a ceremony for children who turn different ages. This year is the last ceremony for Jonas (the "boy")and a very important one. It is the year when Jonas gets a job picked for him. He gets picked the reciever of memories. He starts to see colors and learns about hate and war. I'm not going to give out the end so read it for yourself. Note: gifted children handle this book better than others.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: My thoughts on The Giver
Review: I thought it was an excellent book on a possible futuristic society. It's sad the way that they do not feel or truly live for fear or being different from society. I hope that our society is never forced to endure such an existance.

It shows what a society without individualism would be like and the result of forgetting our past. It is definatly a book worth reading.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Lowry Gives Much Through The Giver
Review: Much like the themes of Brave New World and The Handmaiden's Tale, The Giver presents the flaws of a "perfect world" where everything is controlled. And similar to other futuristic tales, this one has its "hero," but in this story that hero is Jonas, a twelve-year-old boy. Like most children, Jonas is filled with questions. Once he is labeled as a "receiver," the separation between himself and the well-tuned world he was born into begins. Jonas is forced to feel and see things that his community has worked so hard to deny and make disappear. The main theme that stood out in my mind is: If things have always been done this way, why change? How can we change? This is a riveting read. I could not put this book down until Jonas's journey was finished, at least among my pages. The book leaves the reader with thoughts to ponder, possibilities to imagine, and questions to debate. Read it, pass it on, and make an impact in the world. Change is sometimes needed...but we have to "see" the need first.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Cathy Thorson of Hamilton Township review of the Giver
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed The Giver. It really does a great job of conveying the importance of "sharing" memories. It's just not fair to the human mind to deprive it of such wonderful things. But, the flip side is with all happy things come sad things. With Christmas and love, also come war and hate. All in all a great book. I would recommend it strongly to any reader with an open mind.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a thrilling book about a young boy who finds about what life is really like. Jonas, the main character, is choosen to be the Receiver of the community. Jonas, the main character finds out what life is really like. Jonas learns that his father is a killer and his friends is soon to be one. Jonas learns the true value of life. Jonas doesn't like the way they run the comunity. I think that this book is intresting becasue it has a lot to do with sience fiction. In this book, Jonas receives memorys from his The Giver. I think that this book is cool because he uses the powers that he is given. I also think that it is intresting becasue it has to do with the future. It is a wonderful suspense because Jonas the main character plans a daring excape. This book was thrillng, funny, and fantastic, that is why I like this book a lot. I think that this book should be read by all ages and in all libaries.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: the best book i've read so far!
Review: i am in the 8th grade and i absolutely loved the book me 7th grade teacher did a book report on it and he loved the book a lot he was my favorite teacher and i was lucky agin to get him this year but i changed schools so i was sad to leave at my new school i saw the giver so i decided to read it, boy was i glad that i did i am very picky about books but i was so in to it i couldn't put it down! it's a total reality check to those who wish that they could be the same as everyone else as for the whole "release" thing it didn't bother me but i don't recomend thi book to anyone below the age of 12 but otherwise it is good book for those who are looking for something different


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