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Summary: The Giver
Review: Lois Lowry did a really good job on this book. It is about a boy named Jonas. When people turn 12 they get asighed a job that they have to do for life. Jonas gets asighed a special job called the reciver. Everyday he goes to the Givers ofice, takes of his shirt and lies on the bed. The Giver comes and puts his hands on Jonas's back and transports memories from him to Jonas. The Giver told Jonas that once he gives the memories to Jonas he dosent have them anymore. The Giver tells Jonas that he can't share his dreams with his parents anymore. If you want to find out what happens.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: This is a book about a 12 year old boy named Jonas. When he turns 12 he is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. This book takes place way in the future where rules are so advanced that if you break three big ones you are released from the comunity. I recommend this book to all ages.
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Summary: Lois Lowry's book the Giver
Review: I really enjoyed Lois Lowry's book the Giver because it really made you think. The way a boy could go through life this way makes you want to keep reading it again and again. I liked hearing about the way the community lived and how great it seemed, then you realize what that means. Twelve year old Jonas has been given a special job for life. He has a position that is different from other kids. He begins to see the way life used to be. The Giver helps him through this, showing him what a different world he lives in. The Giver is a great book and I can see why it won the Newbery Award.
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Summary: The Giver book
Review: Jonas lives in a utopian society, with no pain, no war, no sickness's, and no crimes. In this community there is only one person who holds the key to both pleasure and truth, this person is known as The Giver. When twelve year old Jonas is asigned to become the community's "receiver of memories"and is exposed to the secrets that he and most of his community has been kept from for many years, he realizes that his world is far from perfect. With the Guidance of the Giver, he slowly comes to realize exactly how unperfect and costly his perfect world really is
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Summary: A great book for burgeoning critical thinkers
Review: 4.5 of 5 stars - Highly RecommendedOver the past two days, I finished reading The Giver. (There are no spoilers here.) This was a great book. Today, many assume that higher degrees of efficiency of a society and its members are intrinsic goods for the advancement of the human specie. Brave New World is one book that takes that assumption to an extreme, and notes the perversity and inhumanness that result from such an extremely efficient society. The Giver is another such book, one that is less dark and less explicitly bitter than BNW. The settings and plots of these hyper-efficient societies are different enough that make both books interesting and poignant reads. However, as BNW is definitely suited exclusively for an adult audience, The Giver is enriching to both adolescent and adult. And whereas BNW is science fiction mixed with biting satire, The Giver is more of a lighthearted science fiction with a hint of fantasy -- the way in which the Receiver receives his experiential knowledge. The protagonist of this story is an early adolescent, as the author's hope seems to be for young readers to try to relate to Jonas. This book is a good teaching tool that one can use in trying to teach younger (maybe even older) ones to think more critically about life, to break out of the sphere of popular culture in which so many young ones are comfortable, yet suffocating in ignorance. The author's writing style is crisp and lucid, the way that I prefer my authors to be. I give this book 4.5 stars, but I'm rounding up. My only complaint is that I disliked how open-ended the ending is. I appreciate the author's desire to be artistic and ambiguous, but I felt that for this type of young adult's book, she should've made a stronger sense of closure. Aside from that minor complaint, I enjoyed reading this book, and the author kept me engaged from beginning to end.
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Summary: Read it again and again!
Review: I cannot say how wonderful this story is. My feelings were being tested along with Jonas', and I think Lois Lowry has done a fantastic job. I'll spare the synopsis and just tell you that it's worth reading. I started to read with only a vague idea of what I would find, and I found it difficult to put it down and go to sleep. Although the novel is directed toward "younger" readers, I still found it mature enough for an adult or older teen to enjoy. Please read this novel, I promise you'll be glad you took the time to read it.
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Summary: The Best of the Best
Review: It's a really good book about a boy named Jonas, who is chosen to have the most difficult job in the community: Receiver of Memories. Jonas realizes how much the community has lost. I recommend this book to kids my age and older. It really makes you think and the end is suspenseful.
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Summary: Completely Original
Review: This is a completly original story that hasn't been though from a writer in ages. Lois created a utopia in the life of perfect. But, is the life of perfect worth many sacrifices? Without pleasure or serious pain, is life really life? With this, Lois played the role of God, made a world, and slowly observe from one character to add life slowly into life. Five stars for him!
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Summary: Well written, but...
Review: This book was a well written book, I think, but I did not enjoy reading it. It did not hold my attention very much and I found that the storyline changed a lot. I would not recommend this for anyone under 14.
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Summary: Eloquent and enjoyable.
Review: What an incredibly well organized book! Every thought about how the futuristic society exists and operates has been meticulously figured out and recorded by the author, Lois Lowry. There is not a word out of place in this novel. When younger, I often got this book mixed up with the similarly titled, "The Cay". An unfortunate mix-up when you consider that Theodore Taylor's "The Cay" is regarded by many to be a badly written pompous book. This book, however, is lovely. An easy read, it sets up all its ideas perfectly before knocking them down. The reader is placed in a position not too different from that of Jonas, the protagonist. What Jonas learns to feel about his community, we readers learn to feel the same things at the same time. Lowry is especially skilled at the slow reveal. We do not know that the citizens of this world do not distinguish height or sunlight or snow or color until Jonas learns about each of these things in turn. And the book is especially interesting when you consider that there aren't any villains beyond the system itself. This is a laudable book and a good didactic (without being preachy) tale. This would pair well with other dystopian futures, such as "A Wrinkle In Time" (remember the world where "It" lives and the children must bounce the ball all the same way?). I disagree with those readers who feel this book is inappropriate for younger readers. While the open ended ending will probably disappoint or anger some, kids will enjoy the writing for what it is. Eloquent and enjoyable.
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