A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: This is a GREAT book
Review: This book is about a teenage kid living in the far future in a manufactured "community". Everybody's day is entirely planned out. The kid is chosen to be the next "receiver of memories", which is the person who holds all the memories of the past. I highly recomend this book

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Summary: This Book Leaves a Lasting Impression
Review: I read this book a few years ago and still find it thought provoking and interesting. I remember how Jonas gradually discovered that he was different from the normal person he was expected to be and then eventually broke awawy from the mold that was being made for him. This book gives the reader courage and forces them to take another look at the world of today.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is probably the wierdest book I have ever read. Yet it is one of the best books I have ever read. If you are looking for a book that you really get into, read this. It is about a controled community that was designed to be a utopia. But the people of it did not realize what was being hid from them. Then finally somebody realized what was happening to the community and did something about it. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: Reader inspired and entertained!
Review: I thouroughly enjoyed The Giver. I loved the odd little world that Lois Lowry created that worked perfectly. I began to wish that I could live in the village. This book aroused so many questions in my mind and gave me more appreciation for mankind in general! Plus, the ending was wonderful but I won't give that away!

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Summary: Future fantasys
Review: Lowry's book about the future is very fascinating, because it shows very realistically what a future society might be like. It is written very easy, so that someone like me, a stupid pupil from Germany, can easily understand it. The first part, in which the community is described, is a little bit boring, but after chapter eight it is very impressive and interesting. I can only recommend the book,which I read at school, because it allows a completely different look at our society and shows what it might be like in the time to come.

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Summary: A life without feelings
Review: Lois Lowry`s "The Giver"is a very interesting book.We had read it in School and analysed it. We find out that the novel is sometimes difficult to understand for the reader,because the author often uses abstract words and we didn`t nothing about the future like this.I find the book fantastic , because you get knowledge how the life could be in the future. You can take part the main persons life.But I think that the end of the book doesn`t fit the story. So we write a new end about the new life and feelings of Jonas.

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Summary: Review of the Giver
Review: Jonas, the twelve-year old boy lives in the future.It is a world without pain, neediness and risk.Jonas gets the new "Receiver of Memory. He gets memories from the old Receiver and he sees the world with another view. As Jonas is not able to live in this world any more without changing the society he and his stepbrother Gabriel run out of the community.The author makes dear that the perfect world the people think they live in is a well-organized "dictorship" as there is no freedom of choice which suddenly becomes so precious that the reader is forced to recognize that something which seeems to be the most natural thing in the world is eszential for our lives. In addition opportunity to have own memories to make mistakes and to experience a life in which fate, catastrophes and powers we cannot control rule suddenly has to be regarded as a present we never really realized. The book is very interesting and easy to read.It is very interesting to look in such a world so far in the future.The language is the most time easy. The structure is easy and so the reader can the actions follow.It was one of the best books I ever read.

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Summary: World without Feelings
Review: "The Giver" is a very originel and exciting story.We read the book in our English-lesson and I have to say that I really enjoyed it! A life without any feelings or memories of the past is an excelent theme for a (children's)book! In my opinon her writing-style is simple and good understandable,without foreign words,which is typical of children's books.Her usage contains some extraordinary words like "Receiver","Giver","Sameness","Elsewhere"or"Family unit".Makeing use of these she builds up her (and also the reader's)"futur-world", which is very best explaind. The story is pretty exciting because of the strange atmosphere of a life without feelings or emotions,a lot of rules/regulations and the rise of Jonas's behavior the more he knows about the past. There are some highpoints, f.ex. the videotape of Jonas's father killing the babies or the warfar-ememory,which lead to the "real climax",that is Jonas's and Gabriel's flight out of the community.This rise shows that Jonas's character changes in the story.

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Summary: Review
Review: Lowrey's "The Giver" deals with the story about the 12 years old boy Jonas.In a perfect world with no crime, poverty and feelings, Jonas is choosen to be the "Receiver Of Memories". An old man, called the Giver, transmits his memories to Jonas, who discovers the truth about the utopian world and its hypocrisy. In my opinion everyone should read the book, because it is very interesting to see what a society can be like.And also Lowry's ideas, how the society is characterized, are very interesting.

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Summary: Rewiew of "The Giver"
Review: "The Giver" is a novel which deals with the problems boy named Jonas who lives in a totalitarian system.I this system,the habitants are genetically manipulated so that they are not able to feel.Only the "Receiver of Memories" has feelings and Jonas is chosen to be the next one. In his assignement he is able to get to know the whole truth about their society which reveals enormous cruelties.The author employs the third- person-point of view but she stays close to the protagonist's perspective,so that the reader is able to identify with Jonas.The novel is easy to read and to understand because she often uses hypotaxes.In regard to the content and the action, the text is diaphonous and the characters do not have uncommon personalities.I think,the novel is approciated for younger people from about 10 to 14 years because the plot is often flat and ordinary. So in my opinion,the text does not belong to high-quality-literature.