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Summary: It was confusing.
Review: I will have to give the book a three.I didn't like this book because it was to confusing.It would say something then something else. Some thing totaly different. It was to confusing.
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Summary: I think the Giver really sucked!
Review: This book really didn't have a meaning to me. The ending sucked. You couldn't tell what happened. You should put in a better meaning to the end of the book. The book was very stupid also. It was very not meaningful.
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Summary: This was a fairly good book.
Review: The Giver was, in my opinion, a fairly good book. The storyline was good and Lois Lowry did a very good jod of portraying Jonas's fellings throught the book. The only thing I didn't understand was the ending. Overall though this was a good book.
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Summary: death with love of Jesus or how I destroyed my story.
Review: The author aborts a slow paced delicately written story with a nonsense ending. At the end of the story, Jonas climbs the hill sees the warmth and love in a colorful world of Christmas, family, fireplace.
I did not recall if, there was a big cross or star of jesus on the tree, an old rocking chair with grandma sitting in it. May be we could add a voice- over invoking a Hallmark cards, as the camera pans up and back showing the two dead children on a snowcapped mountain with the sky backdrop of two lone but beautiful shining stars.. A vision of death with love of Christmas and Jesus. I was offended.. I felt ripped off by not being given a thoughtful ending, and felt the author wrote an ending that was as cruel as the murderous cult characters she painted. The reader is entitled to a finish with thought and morality; not this quasi-symbolic Christian hammer of death.
The Beatles knew "Love love, love, all you need is love, all you ever need is love" is great for songs that inspire action not just belief. Action not just suffering. Perhaps the author ran out of paper, or the limit of her ideas, or had just come from being reborn. .
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Summary: with praise, for every level of reading and every age
Review: The book THE GIVER by Lois Lowry is the story of a young boy Jonas who lives in a society protected from the rest of the world. In this era, Jonas's culture has chosen to forgoe choice and emotion in order to produce efficiency and to eliminate pain. For example, there is no love in this culture; rather, these feeling entitled "stirrings" are controlled by medication. Marriage is controlled, and children are assigned to each "married" couple, to be raised, but not loved. Jonas, however, is selected to be the one person responsible for emotion: he receives the memories from the history of the world before climate control, before the end of war, and before the true end of happiness.
THE GIVER is not only a fascinating children's book, but entertains a philosophical and psychological content which can be read on many different levels. I read the book first when I was a young child, and as I marveled at the story and was shocked as each child lost its identity, stiving to achieve "sameness." Trust me, growing up in a liberal household in the busy city of New York (which is one of the culture centers of the earth), the idea of not living for happiness and choice was hard to understand.
This is the book I chose for my Philosophy in Literature analysis last semester at college. It is an incredibly deep book- Ms. Lowry makes remarkable insights into the tendancies of the human character. I am not familiar with her life and could not tell you whether THE GIVER was written to be so deep or if Ms. Lowry is simply a phoenomenal author and a sensitive, perceptive observer of the human character. However, I can tell you that this is truly one of my favorite books and I recommend from the bottom of my heart that you lose yourself Jonas's world today.
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Summary: "Truly a work of art, and will keep you spellbound! : )
Review: This is a fantastic book about a boy who lives in the future, where there is no color, no war, no choices, everything is perfect, untill Jonah is assigned to be the "Reciever of Memories." This important job leads Jonah to see things in a different way, and to realize that there is more to the world than what he thinks.
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Summary: A Beautiful Book, Not Just for Young Adults
Review: I originally read "The Giver" a few years ago, not expecting much and was completely blown away by it. At the time, I almost didn't read it because it was marketed as a "young adult novel", and I thought it might be a bit mindless. But I was intrigued by the plot. This book is a gift , that succeeds in being both an emotional story and a compelling, somewhat realistic Sci-Fi tale. "The Giver" is a story that is good for a ten year old, as well as adults who will see the many metaphors and understand it. It may be written simply, but its' message is a universal one that all people should hear. It is THE best book I have ever read, and should be read by everyone
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Summary: Wonderful Story With An Obscure Ending
Review: I could not put this book down... But was so depressed at the end... Was it sad, did they make it?? I could never figure it out..
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Summary: A thrilling story, never to know what will happen next.
Review: This book is very interesting, but yet a little confusing. A world without colors, love, pain, ect.. A world that might be interesting yet, scary. This book 'The Giver' is a little confusing and hard to understand, but yet still a great book. Lois Lowry ends this book with a suspence. I wish there were a sequel to this book. Though I don't know how the sequel will start. Anyway, read this book. It's a heart warming story.
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Summary: This book was awsome!
Review: It tells the story of Jonas, a Twelve year old, and the place he lives, when Elevens turn Twelve, they get their career. Jonas, was the Receiver oif Memory, and an old man, he Giver, gave him memories of the past
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