A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: An adult book disguised as a children's book.
Review: This book preaches on the dangers of conformity as the supreme value. It includes such topics as infancide, mercy killings and child suicide. This book is not meant for children. Yes, blind conformity is evil. But this vehicle to preach against conformity is not for children under 14. Adults: Read this book before you decide to give it to a child. Is your nine or 12 year old ready to read about the killing of a newborn with an injection in the skull? Do you want your 11 year old to read about how suicide solved a twelve year old's problem? This book haunted my sleep and thoughts for quite a while. I pulled this book from my elementary school library shelves.

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Summary: Excellent! A Powerful Story!
Review: This book is a great book for all ages! It teaches you to appriciate things in life that you often take for granted- color, sunshine, choices. This book made me realize how important choices are. Without them we are just empty shells carrying out tasks. Even without pain things can be lifeless.I loved this book and would recommend it to anyone!!

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Summary: no couler,toys for each age,1boy1girl,had2boys.
Review: The book was verry good, it was kind of hard to understand,because of the non coulers and ect.

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Summary: It was pretty good
Review: I think this book was pretty good because i like how the author made the giver very old and wise

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Summary: I could hardly put it down...
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry was an excellent, powerful book. When I first saw it, I thought it sounded kind of strange, but since a lot of my friends liked it, I thought I'd give it a try. (Actually, one of my friends thought it was disturbing.) I picked it up, and after a few pages, I was hooked. It really shows in detail the sharp contrast between our society and a perfect world or "Community." The details were great also, and they added to the clear picture I got of the story. I could really feel the cold snow blowing against Jonas's face in his first Memory. The book had a good meaning, but parts of it were disturbing. I won't mention them because I don't want to give it away, but I definitely recommend this book to anyone who likes a good story that makes you really think about life. Kudos to the author, Lois Lowry, for creating such a spectacular work of literature!

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Summary: The ending is the most thrilling and ambiguous part.
Review: I believe the ending was ambiguous and the fact that I could choose my own ending for myself is a one in a life time chance. Jonas was trying to find the "Elsewhere" which is believed to have music, color, lights, joys and pain, with a young boy the whole time. The memories that Jonas recieved made me think that I was in the memory as well as him. I recommend this book to every single person that I know. The Giver is wonderous book like no other that I have read.

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Summary: the giver
Review: the giver is a graet book! the first time i read it was when i was in 6th grade at age 12, its a really deep book and sence ther i have read it 3 more times each time understanding more and more. i really would recomend reading it more then once, but wait untill ur at least 14.

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Summary: The truth about life
Review: Imagine a life with no pain, no war, no sadness, no problems. Jonas, the protagonist of this story, lives in such a place. However, along with that comes no love, no cozy Christmases, no grandparents, no hugs and kisses, no hot summer days. Jonas is chosen to be the Receiever of Memories by his community. In this job, he will take on the burden of knowing the truth about life, its highs and its lows. He is trained by the previous Receiver who is called The Giver. Together, they share friendship and truth and must find a way to save people in the community from being Released and to save Jonas from his fate.

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Summary: Lois Lowry gives an imaginary idea of how the world could be
Review: This book gave you an unsual kind of plot, not realistic but different. There are many things that could not really be, but it lets your mind expand and try to answer all of the questions you have while reading it. It is a great book that teaches you lessons. One thing I learned was that you should never take for granted. There are many things that they do not have in their community that we have today, some we could not even live without. A book that has meaning is good. You learn from it.

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Summary: The book was boring and complicated.
Review: The book wasn't so insteresting, because in the begining the reality that Jonas was in didn't seem the same as the reality that I'm in. It wasn't easy to understand that Jonas's community doesn't have what in my reality does. Like Jonas's community doesn't have feelings of love, hurt, pain,sadness, or even happiness. People in his community don't want nobdy to suffer, that they want to have a perfect community. Something in this reality can't be.