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Summary: The Giver is an outstanding book.
Review: The Giver is a outstanding book about a community that is perfect until one boy changes it. The Giver is moderately simple but awesome. It begins as if everything is perfect until Jonas gets his new job as The Receiver. My story has a little bit of mystery.The mystery is:Is Jonas seeing things? What is going to become of him? The main characters are Jonas and the Giver; they both are virtuous. If you like intense stories you'll love The Giver. It's all yours.
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Summary: A good book for thinkers
Review: This book is really great for people that think about things in a different way then most people would. I think this book would be pretty confusing for smaller children. The first time I read it, I was even sort of confused! It is about a world where everything is the same. There is a special commitee that makes all of the choices for the people. They choose the people's occupation, spouse, children and other things. In the community is a boy named Jonas. When it is his time to recieve what job he will take on he recives the one called "The Reciever" The reciever is the one person in the community that has memories of all the things of our world. When Jonas learns the truth of things, he decides to put things right in his community. This is a very interesting book that really makes you think of things in a totally different light. I hope you enjoy "The Giver" by Lois Lowry.
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Summary: Great book!!!
Review: I really enjoyed the Giver. I think the auther completely captured the reader. I felt the emotion that Jonas felt. Jonas had been deprived of feelings and color. We might wish for an 'eequal' world, but this book changed my point of view on that subject. I think that this book must be read. It teaches so much. If you want a book with symbolism this is the book is the book. Jonas is proving that things can be changed. I think that his attitude in his life should be shared. This was an excellent book.
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Summary: I liked the book The Giver.
Review: I thought tha book The Giver was a good book. It was interesting to thinkabout our community and how much better it is than Jona's. In tha book The Giver, Jonas lived in a community where everything was the same.They can't see color or pick their own jobs. Communities today are a lot different. The ending was a lot better than the beggining because Jonas could die and second. Every move he makes counts. The beginning just explained what his community was like and it got boring after a while.
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Summary: TheGiver: a must-read book!
Review: Jonas is a young boy about to start the rest of his life in a world that has no feelings, color, nothing to make things separate from everything else. There are rules for everything, no words of meaning for anything, and all that is done is to protect the town from the dangers of the way things used to be. When you are born, you do not have a mother and father with whom you grow up. After birth, you are given a name, and then given to a new family who will raise you. Each year in honor of your birth, a ceremony is held for you and the others in your group. On some ceremonies you are given new clothes, one you a haircut, one a new bicycle, but the most important ceremony of all is the ceremony of 12. The ceremony of 12 is very special, for that is when you find out what job you will be given to have as long as you work. (When you are growing up, before the ceremony of 12, you begin to volunteer at a job site that interests you, and that could help determine your life long job.) The elders in the town all live in a home until they are released. No one knows what it is like or what happens at a release, and no one talks about anyone being released. Some of the elders are in charge of assigning the 12's their jobs. So at the ceremony of 12's, going through the numbers of the children, Jonas waited to be called on. For some time now he had been wondering and worrying about what his job would be, and noticing some strange things happening to him that he could not explain, but would later find out, that had to do with his job. When Jonas' turn came to receive his job, everyone fell silent as he was passed. His number had not been called. All through the rest of the ceremony Jonas wondered what could have happened. How could they have passed him? But his question was answered soon enough. When the ceremony ended, an announcement was made that one of the numbers had been passed. Not forgotten, but passed for a reason. Jonas was then called to the stage like all the other numbers had been, and was told that the job he was about to receive was the most important job of all. Jonas was to be the new Receiver. His training would start soon and his duties were not to be spoken of. He had a new set of rules to follow now. The Receiver was to spend his training hours with the old Receiver, also called the Giver. The Giver was very old and would soon be released. But before he can be released he must give all of his memories, good and bad, to the Receiver. The Receiver's job then came into affect. He was to hold all the memories for the entire town, so that they wouldn't have mixed feelings and not know what to do. It was his job to protect the town from having the feelings they never had before. The Giver is a great book that portrays the life of a young boy having to reach adulthood quickly, experience true pain and happiness, and meet all the challenges thrown his way. To meet the responsibilities as the Receiver, to follow all the new rules, to receive all the memories, to protect the town from the memories, and the journey that lies ahead for Jonas to be able to do all that he must, and to also change the town in a way that could ruin everything or make it a better place, the way it once was long ago.
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Summary: The Greatest book of all time!! 5 stars!!!
Review: I would give the book "The Giver" 5 stars because it was very interesting and ordinary. But there were some parts in the book that were sort of inappropriate for young adolescents, Like the part when they stuck a needle through a babies head, which was called "release." There are some parts that are so heart- warming and so touching that it astounded me. I love the part when Jonas risks his life for a baby named Gabrial. This book is highly recomended. 5 stars!!!!
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Summary: An Intriguing book filled with suspense
Review: I didn't like the ending, but overall, an excellent book about society and tradition.
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Summary: Giver Review
Review: The book The Giver by Lois Lowry is an excellent example of how folklore plays a role within a society. In most societies, a lot of the cultures and traditions that they hold today are not things that you can find in a history book. They are things that were told from generation to generation like stories and lessons, that have slowly evolved and changed the culture into what it is today. They are stories that held myths and facts of what happened in the past, and what they think the future will be. The Giver is about the same concept of handing down the history to the next generation. In the novel the inhabitants live in a Eutopian society. Everything is controlled and structured. There is no crime, no mistakes, and no passion. The people are born under controlled conditions and assigned to family units. They are brought up their entire lives to believe that their way of life is a perfect way, the only way. This is, for the most part true, however, there is one thing that they are lacking, wisdom. They have no knowledge of the past, or that things were ever any different. They do not know of war or pain, or love or even animals and color. All these thing were eliminated within their society in order to bring sameness to everyone, and eliminate any space for differences and prejudism and choices. After all, if you don't have a choice, you can't make the wrong decision. In the story there is a person within the society called a Giver, and someone called a Receiver. The Giver is the only person within the society who has any knowledge of the past. When his life is close to being over, he then relays these memories to the Receiver. This is the only way that the society has of learning from the mistakes of the past, and it is done to protect the rest of the society from the pain of the memories. In theory this sounds like it would be a good thing, but actually it is not. They do not have the pleasure of experiencing anything on their own. They do not know how to live life independently, to have their own actions, or even an emotion to themselves. Even their job is chosen for them. All the people within the society are the same, and there is no individuality. With out this element, it is almost as if they are not even human. Humans were made with the desire to love, to be free, and to discover new things and satisfy their natural curiosity. All this is lost with in this society simply because they have no knowledge of things ever being any different. That is why folklore is important. It gives people something to believe in. It gives them the knowledge of things being different and unique. It gives them the ability to be different and their own person, and at the same time helps to form what the society is as a whole.
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Summary: Really good book!
Review: I really enjoyed this book. This book has many puzzles that you solve as you read it. It's a little scary at times, so I wouldn't recommend it for small children. One of my favorite "puzzles" was finding out was "release" was. I would read it, if I were you. It was a real eye opener. It shows you important things in weirld ways. I personally would have ended it differently, but that was Lois Lowry's choice.
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Summary: Extrodinary
Review: This is one of the best books I have ever read. After you read it you come back to it again and to read it all over again. Lois Lowry makes you think you are there in the community watching everything happen. I would reccomend it to anyone
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