A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: It was a great book and I think everyone should read it.
Review: "The Giver" was a very good book. It was mostly about Jonas and him growing up. It explained his whole community and how things were there. Jonas was a very happy child, never worried, or he didn't even wonder that much about things elsewhere. When Jonas turned 12 his whole began to change for him. He was given the job Reciever. He could recieve memories other people in his community couldn't. The Give r gave himmemories of real life of war, pain, agony, starvation, seasons, colors and even death. All those memories turned Jonas's life upside down as well as educated him. He started to feel he didn't want to be in that community anymore because he didn't agree with the way the community. He planned to leave the community to go to elsewhere. The Giver hepled him fulfill his plan, and Jonas was able to get away with Gabe to elsewhere.

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Summary: One of the best books that I have ever read!!!
Review: The Giver is a story by Lois Lowry with the setting in the future where there are places called communities. Those are towns where everything is set so there are no choices for them to choose to avoid anything bad like fights. The meals are given to you for free in the right amounts (probably so you don't get fat). If you make a mistake there's a procedure to go through every single time, and you don't even get to choose your own job. A committee called the Elders chooses everything for the people in the communities. A speaker system announces everything to everyone throughout the community.

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Summary: I THINK THIS IS THE BEST BOOK IVE EVER READ! ! !
Review: I THINK THIS IS THE BEST BOOK BECAUSE IT TELLS YOU ABOUT WHAT PLACE THERE TRIING TO FIND THE PLACE CALLED ELSEWHERE BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO LIVE THERE HIM AND GABE SO WHEN THEY LEFT THEY WERE ON THERE WAY TO FIND ELSEWHERE AND SO THEY STARTED ON THERE JOURNEY TO ELSEWHERE SO WHEN THEY WERE GOING DURRING THE NIGHT AND SLEEPING DURRING THE DAY SO WHEN THE PLAINS WENT BY WITH THE HEAT SENSORS SO JONAS WOULD THINK OF A HOT SUMMER DAY AND THEN TOUCH GABE SO THAT WAY THE HEAT SENSOR DOESNT DETECT THE WARMTH OF JONAS AND GABE DURRING THE NIGHT... BUT A LITTLE LONGER AFTER THERE LONG JOURNEY TO THE ELSEWHERE HE FOUND A SLED SO WHEN THEY BOTH GOT ON IT THEY STARTED TO GO DOWN AND THEN THEY SAW LIGHTS SO THEY KEPT GOING DOWN AND THEN THEY FINALLY FOUND THE PLACE CALLED ELSEWHERE AND THATS WHERE THEY LIVED HAPPLIY EVER AFTER.....THE END...

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Summary: I thought the book was great.
Review: I thought the book was so good. All of my friends loved it also. It was truly original. I thought that Jonas was amazing. I liked it when The Giver gave Jonas all the memories of the past. I thought Jonas was courageous because he could take in all of those memories. Even the horrible painful ones.

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Summary: A "Must read" for fantasy lovers!
Review: "The Giver" is a novel about a boy who lves in a colorless, same community; Where 1 female and 1 male child are assigned to a family unit, and 12 year olds are assigned jobs for the rest of their lives. Jonas is "selected" specially as "Reciver of Memory" and is transmitted memories of the old world such as snow, color, and sunshine. Jonas is inpired to venture out of the community and find the real world. I really liked this book, though the ending is abrupt. Lois Lowry's best masterpiece!

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Summary: I LOVED THE GIVER!!!
Review: The Giver is a great book because it's a made up culture where you apply for a child or a spouse,you never know what to expect.I reccomend The Giver to anyone looking for a good book to read.

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Summary: Truely original.
Review: I really liked this book. The plot was so original that no one has even come close to having a similar plot. It made me appreciate discisions and memories, and the fact that the way we live is very free.

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Summary: It's so good I give it more then five stars.
Review: This book at first had a city in it like any other city but when you find out all the things the city is missing your hart brakes in two!The end I must of cried a puddle of tears cause it touched my hart so deply.

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Summary: A Book That Really Make You Fell Like Youre In Another Word
Review: This is the most heartbreakinbg and soul searching book I have ever read.While reading this book you have to think what would you do in this situation. Would you have the courage and strength to endure what Jonas went through. I would have to admit that I don't think I would be that strong in a world like that. This book really moved me and caused me to be thankful for the simple little things that we have in life(like color) and not to take anything for granted.

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Summary: It WAS A GREAT BOOK
Review: the book was very good though the ending could have been better. i suggest that anyone should read ut uf they are looking for a good story