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Summary: One of a kind
Review: In a near perfect community where color is not seen, pain is not felt, and everyone lives to be the same age; Jonas a Twelve is cosen to be the Receiver of Memory. Memories from the past when pain and love was felt by all. When Jonas has received nearly all the memories, he does something no one in the community has ever done or knows about.
Lois Lowry tells an amazing story in this book. This book is probably my favorite I have ever read before. There is know other book quite like this one. I reach out to everyone to read this excellent writen book.
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Summary: it changed my life!!!
Review: This book is the best i've ever read! It really changed my whole life! Cause of the book and its message, i found the sense of my life! I am so happy, that i can see colours and that i have feelings, and emotions. I prefer our to the receivers one, i prefer pain to never have been loved by anyone.
now, i am the happiest human alive,
love to all of you!
your ruth
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Summary: A good school book
Review: We read this book in our English lessons. At first it was difficult to understand but after a while we couldn't stop reading. We were fascinated how our future might be. It was difficult to imagine living without feelings and being totally equal. The book gave us an impulse to think about our life and we realized how great ordinary things like snow, sunshine, colours and feelings, of course, are.
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Summary: A good choice
Review: We recently read this book at school. First it was a little bit difficult to understand, but later we really enjoyed reading it. Although the story is very unrealistic, the novel is interesting for "not fantasy-fans", too.
The novel is about a boy called Jonas, who lives in a world without colours, feelings, music, animals, etc. One day Jonas is selected as the new receiver which means that he gets all the memories from the past. And now everything changes. Jonas gets to know all feeling and colours and he wants to make all people share these memories. But that sounds easier than it is...
Start reading the book and you will never want to end!
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Summary: A Book you should NOT read!!
Review: I first read this book at age 9. On first glance it is a good, intersting book. If you read a little farther, it is a morbid trip into a land without color or compassion. There is no puberty, no love, no anger- therefore, nothing to make you sympathize with the kind of stupid Jonas.
This book made me cry. People die when they reach a certain age or are too light for this world of supposed ideals. But they don't just die- they are murdered.
The Giver was too much of a moody character for you to really, truly feel for. The best part of the book was Lily, Jonas' little sister. The end with Gabriel was over-the-top and pointless. While I love the Anastasia books by Lois Lowry, she needs a few lessons in good science-fiction endings.
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Summary: My Favorite with a Sad Ending
Review: This book has been my favorite sad book for a long time. I reread it a few years ago. I think I realized something very important to the book: Jonas, Gabe, and the Giver die. I thought this because jonas reverted to his favorite memory as he died, and since Gabe was with him, he died as well. When it spoke of Jonas faintly hearing music comeng from where he had been (the community), I think it meant that the Giver had died as well and that meant that Jonas also got to receive the memory of music.
This sad ending made me think. For me, the book did not end there, it was merely a beginning.
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Summary: THE GIVER
Review: In my opinion the novel "The Giver" by Lois Lowry has a fantastic content.
The novel is about a twelve-year-old boy Jonas, who lives in a strange community.
In this community there're several ceremonies, which icluded different advantages. I'm really fascinated by the secrets in the "perfect" community that you can find out if you read this book.
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Summary: A good read in class
Review: The Giver is a good choice for reading in class since it is written in quite an understandable language and contains a lot of helpful annotations.
I personally wouldn't have read this book outside school. I found it boring and not interesting to read. The story is confusing and ends too suddenly.
I would have wanted the Auther to continue the book a bit more to find out how the community develops.
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Summary: Nothing is real, everything is under control
Review: In my opinion the book is a goodchoice for pupils. The content is about a group of people who are under the power of the "Elders".They haven't got any possibility to choose for example the work they want to. The book reminded me of the movie "Matrix", no one's free and people see and think only what others make or allow them to see and think. Everyone has a purpose you can't change.It's most interesting for pupils because it's written in a simple way, but also good for adults.
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Summary: hard to imagine
Review: The book is written in an easy language but we are sure that the content is not easy to understand for children. The ending is a bit unsatisfactory, but all in all it is fun to read the story because living in such a community is very hard to imagine. So you have to use your imagination.
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