A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: This is a good book that should be read by everybody.
Review: The book The Giver was wonderfully written by a very talented writer, Lois Lowery. On a scale one to five with one as the lowest and five as the highest, I would give this particular novel a four. I would give it a four because it didn't have enough action. I'm the type of person who loves action. One thing that made the book good was the allusions dealing with character's and objects in the book.For instance, Asher. He is a happy character because Asher means happiness. He always wanted to play or joke around. Also, Jonas, which means a symbol of peace. He always wanted everything to be fair and go smoothly. Another thing was that the people in their community didn't have to worry about anything because eveything was the same. No one had anything different.What one person got everybody got the same. To make this short and sweet the novel The Giver didn't have any racism or jealousy. They all had a life picked out for them. They didn't have to worry about anything. Sometimes I wish the "real world", our world could be like that.

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Summary: The Giver is a wonderful book even though it confused me.
Review: The book The Giver was a great book that I really enjoyed. If I were to express it in 1 to 2 words, I would say it was confusingly, interesting. I enjoyed the book for a lot of reasons. Read below if you would like to find out some of these reasons. The main reason that I liked this book is because the book has its own life-style. The charachters in the book sort of lived in a very individual world, never guessing that a much larger world lay outside of thier boundaries. They went practally thier whole lives not knowing what the rest of the world is like and what different charachteristics it held. Another reason I liked the book is because It held fasinatig details about each charachter. For instance my faveorite charachter, Jonas, was described as a quiet person who respected all people. He was brave and thoughtful throuout the story. Those are only two of the reasons why I liked the book. What were yours?

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Summary: I think that the novel The Giver is a excellent novel.
Review: I enjoyed reading the novel The Giver because it had sevral excellent ideas to show how familys should learn diffrent skills to help them later in life. One great thing about the novel was the annual ceremonies of twelve. The ceremony was an important event that begin at the age of one and ended at twelve. At the age of twelve the children recied their first assignment as a reciever. I think this is a great idea so that when they get older they can decide on a career that they can handle. Also, the family had family rituals where they would share their dreams and ideas.They shared their family rituals everyday.Some children had good dreams and others had terrible dreams They shared dreams everyday so if there were a problem about a dream the family can help solve it. I think that dream sharing is a great idea. I think the novel The Giver was a very excellent novel. I had sevral good ideas.

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Summary: The novel The Giver was a great book.
Review: The novel The Giver by Lois Lowry is a very good book. The reason why I think this book is so good to read is because it giveslots of good details about the main characters and the community. Next, in the beginning of the book I reed that there was a kid named Jonas that always saw unidentified aircrafts flying over their community which I didn't think was so interesting in the first chapter. I think the author should of wrote different things that would have made the first chapter sound more interesting because when I reed the first chapter i found it rather boring but then when I reed more and got to the middle of the book it got more interesting because it had more action and other stuff.Then When I got to the end of the book I wanted to read it over and over because it was so good but I didn't get a chance to. What I really want to know about this novel is if something really happened like this before.

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Summary: I liked this book, and I hope that you will read to.
Review: The Giver is a very inspirational book.It makes you think about how things would be if we lived like Jonas and his family, and the rest of the community. I would recommend this book to you because its different and interesting. I liked the book at sometimes because there was a part when you turned the age of twelve you would be assinged jobs of different areas of the community such as the Giver, Caretaker of the old, and there were many others but I am not going to give those things away. I liked the book and I hope that you will too.

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Summary: This is really a good book for seventh graders to read!
Review: During the Summer I read a fantastic book called, "The Giver." I think this book would rate a three star, on a scale from one to five. This would be about average. If there was a movie, I would rate it a PG-13. Why I rate this book a three is because I do not think some kids understand parts. For example, when Jonas has his flashbacks they tend to get confusing. This would be one of few major setbacks. I do not think I liked any part of the book the best. The reason is because I did not think the book was really that bad. I think you should read this book because it can teach you many new things. It teaches you of love, mystery, desire, hate, fear, and many others. It can teach you how to survive some of life's tuffest rides. To conclude my review, the book was great. Louis Lowry shows strong deposition in her writing. To me, that is a must in a good writer. this is my overall review on "The Giver."

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Summary: The Giver was a fantastic book.
Review: I read a book called The Giver this summer.It was a fantastic novel.The Giver was based on a young boy who had the assignment of the receiver of memories. When he receives all the memories, he becomes the Giver. Then when a new receiver of memories gets chosen, the Giver gives the receiver his memories. Then it goes on and on and on. My favorite character was Jonas and I also liked Gabriel. Jonas was nice , sweet, and everybody liked him. Jonas liked everybody,too. He especially liked Fiona.I like Jonas.I think the book was kinda weird when I started reading it. When I finished it I thought it was wonderful.

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Summary: The Giver, by Lois Lowry ws an exellent book, as a drama ser
Review: The Giver, by lois Lowry was an exellent book as a drama series. Although it didn't have much action, The Giver was still a good novel. I like this novel because it has a variation of elaboration. If you are a firebrand, or emotional personIdo not recomend The Giver. If you can handle sad stories you should read this book. On a scale one to ten I'd give it a seven. I'd give this novel a seven because it had such goog elaboration, that I could almost see it as a movie. I took those three points off because there was not enough action. Me, Ilove to see action. The Giver was to realistic for me to enjoy. It was okay but Iam not that type of realistic person. I beleive that you should read The Giver if you like the type of story I have just explained.

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Summary: The Giver was a good book.
Review: The novel The Giver by Lois Lowry is a good book.I think that the Giver is a good book because it gives lots of details and illustons about the charactors and the comunity. In the the beginig of the Giver there is a boy named Jonas.Jonas is a special boy and has the abillaty to "SEE BEYOND". Forinstance at one time he saw the apple change latter on the book he learnd that he had started to see colar. I liked the book and I hope someone who reades this papper will read the book and enjoy it as much as I did.

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Summary: An Eleven year old boy recieves a very important job.
Review: Jonas, an 11year-old boy, lives in a perfect world, so it seems. He is never hungry or sad. No one may choose his or her own job. A committee of elders assigns the jobs. Jonas was selected to be the Reciever of Memory. The Reciever of Memory is the most important job in the community,and requires a great deal of responsability. As the Reciever of Memory Jonas recieved memories of colors,and pain from the Giver.