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Summary: What can i say?
Review: theres really not much to say. i didnt want to read the book because the cover was wierd looking. i was forced to read it 2 years ago for school, and i absolutly loved it. just read this book you wont regret it, it really makes you think.......
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Summary: The Giver brings a wide expanse of fun and knowledge . . .
Review: I am the oldest child in my family's household, and I am in eighth grade. For Reading class, we read this book as an assignment. Looking at the cover, it does not appear to be entirely too appealing, but the inside is what holds captive a jar of suspense, happiness, sadness, and a lillte bit of everything else that Lois Lowry meticulously inserted on each page of this wonderful book.
The main character is Jonas, a boy at the age of eleven. This book takes place in a future utopian society, where nobody has a worry in the world . . . that is, until Jonas is given his life assignment at age twelve. Together, Jonas and the Giver decide it is time for a big change.
This book includes a little mystery, magic, and everything in between! I know that any readers of The Giver will love it, and it will leave a great influence on your life, as it did mine. Maybe you will realize just how lucky you are right now.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver gives you a story where there is no war,pain,color,decisions,drug use,ect. It's a world that Jonas,a 12 year old kid, lives in. He is asighned a role in the community that will change his life as well as yours forever.This Newberry award winning book will keep you on the edge of your seat. I highly recommend anyone to read this book! It's suitable for all ages. You actually devolop feelings for the characters. The book will leave you hanging, & thinking from beggining to end.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is one of the best books I have read. It is extraordinary novel about a stable, pain-free society with no color, music, or feelings. Their world seems perfect with everyone fulfilling their assignments. When Jonas turns twelve, he fills the role of Receiver of Memory. He discovers sights, sounds, and feelings he has never had before, and he cannot share them with the other people. Jonas dicovers that his is not the perfect world and attempts to change it. I recommend this book because it is sure to keep me from taking things for granted.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: If you haven't read this book you're in for a treat. The name of the book is The Giver . It is written by Lois Lowry. It won a Newbery Award.
The author of the book is one of my favorite authors because she captures my attention and my heart. This book is a story of drama, fantasy, and suspense. The main character is an eleven year old boy who must become a worker for the community when he turns twelve.
The community is made up of house holds that contain a mother, a father, a son, and a daughter only. All houses are the same except that the daughter can be older than the son or vise versa. The son is given a job when he turns twelve that has a great deal of responsibility, and courage.
The strength of the book is that Lois Lowry just wants you to read. She is such a good writer that you can't put the book down. She writes a powerful story.
The books weakness is that the beginning is too slow. The middle is fine, but the end is too short and leaves you hanging.
I would recommend this book to anyone because it reaches out to all ages of readers. I would not recommend this book to anyone that does not like to read books or some one that likes to read the last page first.
As I was reading this book my interest was so obvious that my Mother and Grandmother wanted to read the book.
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Summary: great book
Review: I think that this was a great book. It kept me on the edge of my seat. When the giver gives Joanas the memory of Joanas sliding down a hill. That was my favorite part. Joans lived id a verry plain world. Ther was no color and pretty much nothing we have today. It would have sucked to be Joanas no GOLF.
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Summary: Thought-Provoking and Well-Written
Review: The plot of this book has been described, well and often, in the editorial and customer reviews already posted, and I will not repeat that. The Giver earned five stars from me on two points: technical quality and content. Technically, this book is very well-written, with a fast pace, no lulls, three-dimensional characters, a well-described setting, and no plot contradictions. It is the story content that really elevates this book to five-star quality, however. Diversity and conformity are issues that surround us, in the news, in our neighborhoods, in our schools, in government and politics, and in the courts. "The Giver" puts the debate under a microscope, and it leaves room for no simplistic answers. It portrays an artificial society where diversity has just about been abolished. It depicts the benefits of that society, the shortcomings of it, and the internal conflicts caused in the mind of the protagonist. "The Giver" gives no answers, but gifts us with a wonderful way to look at an important question. This is a great book for a classroom project, or for a parent to read with his/her child. There are discussion questions listed at the end, that can be used as a launching pad for an intellectual exploration of the issues portrayed. A non-spoiler spoiler: The end is intentionally ambiguous. While I have decided, for myself, what the ending means, each reader must make his/her own decision on what happened at the end.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: "You never know what you have until it's gone", is the best way to sum up this book. In a perfect society where everything is planned out to the smallest detail there is very little room for change. This book shows how well a planned out society could work. There would be no one homeless, starving, or underprivileged. Everyone would live comfortably but they also would have to give up certain details of their everyday life. Something as simple as color could make a world of difference. The Giver was a wonderfully thought out book that helped to show that nothing can be perfect, at least not forever.
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Summary: Awesome
Review: I don't usually just get sucked into reading books... I usually just read chapter one and put the book down. This book has depth, and I really enjoyed its interesting features throughout the entire novel. I think the age level should be at about 12+ because of its content.
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Summary: Oh, my goodness. Wow!
Review: I found a copy of this book last night in some of my mother's teaching supplies. (She taught gifted and talented 5th grade for many years.) On a whim, I opened it and began reading. 70 minutes later, I was in the exact same position I started in, in tears and completely stunned. I devoured this book in a little more than an hour and immediately gave it to my ten-year-old daughter. I told her it was excellent and I thought she would enjoy it. She began it immediately and is probably reading it in class right now when she's supposed to be doing her work. I have no words to describe this amazing work. Lois Lowry never fails to touch me deeply!
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