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Summary: book review on 'THE GIVER'
Review: THE GIVER: A book review by Stephan and DominikWe read the book 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry with our English teacher at Schwalmgymnasium (senior high school) in Treysa, Germany.
We reacted differently. We think it is too unreal but also very exciting. While reading the story you don't know what happens next, there are many surprises in the story. The idea to that story is very good but someway very silly. In this perfect world there is no pain and no feelings like love or something else. We think this world is very boring because everything is planned and you aren't allowed to choose your partner or your job. Something good is that there is no war. But in the community there are no colours, no weather, no cars and even no real families. Everything seems as a real world but it isn't because they live a lie. They can't carry their own life in their own hands, the Elders control everything.
The book has an open end which makes the reader think.
We think that the end is too abrupt. While reading you will note that it is a typical science-fiction book.
If you are interested in science-fiction books this book is OK for you.
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Summary: Outstanding
Review: The Giver is a suspensful book that keeps you guessing on what Lois Lowry is trying to get to. Then when you find out what she was trying to get to and you will say "ohh. I get it." It is interesting because the book is almost opposite from the way we live here. The only downfall is the ending because you have so many answers to choose from of how the book ends. I wasn't a big fan of the ending but you might so find out by getting The Giver.
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Summary: Frustrating Book
Review: I just finnished reading the book The Giver in my 8th grade Languge Arts class. I really wasn't a big fan of the book. In the beginning it didn't really grab my attention it was really boring.It took to long for something to start building up. If I did not have to read the book with my class I would have stopped reading the book. I felt that the author made things really hard to understand and had a few things that did not even make sense. I felt that the ending was done well, but it just left to many things unanswered. Things that I was anxious to find out. I know that it lets the reader use their imagination, but still you can't end a book with that many unclear and unanswered things. I feel that if the ending were done different then maybe it would give people better closure about the uncertainty. One thing though that I did like though was how the author introduces and reveals kind of twists and turns and shocks in this book. So in conclusion if you are going to read this book expect frustration coming your way.
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Summary: The Giver- somewhat good, somewhat depressing
Review: I am an eighth grade student and this was one of two books that I was required to read this year (see also my review for The Call of the Wild). This book is about Jonah, a young teen who lives in a community where everything and everybody is the same. There are no colors, and a board of superiors controls the community. It is censorship at its worst. The board also selects jobs for the teens. Jonah receives the job of Giver, which is very rare. The current Giver, in Jonah's job training, passes on memories such as color, pain, war, and love to Jonah. This book is more for teens than for children due to some content. This novel mainly discusses the use of censorship and how protected people are in some aspects of their lives. It talks about how people must experience things themselves in order to mature. This book was good half the time. Some of the memories and lessons Jonah learns are memorable, and wonderful to read about. This book was also bad half the time. Some of the memories, thoughts, ideas, and rituals of the community are too much.
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Summary: An Evilly Perfect World
Review: Living in a world like the one Lois Lowery discribes in The Giver may sound cool, but when you relize later on in the book that babies are killed if they aren't just right makes you wonder: is that a perfect world? It would be nice to live in a world without crime, but would you want your job chosen by someone else? I wouldn't. The elderly are put to sleep since there's no need for them, and nobody knows this except for the people in charge of the community, and The Giver. The Giver is a book that shows a world that seems perfect, but underneath, it has just as much death as this world, except it's disgused. When Jonas ran away with the little toddler his family was caring for because he was to be put to sleep, I admired that, and I hope that he arrived in a nicer community then the one he lived in. This is another book I'd like in my library. It shows how evil can disguse itself.
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Summary: An interesting book
Review: „The Giver", a book review by Johannes and Vitali, two German pupils in the 10th grade After we read the book in the English class at our school we'd like to give you a book review with our opinion about this book and we hope that this might help you.
Jonas lives in a community where you are always observed and where you have to do everything you are told. At first he is happy in his community. He has friends and has a usual life as a citizen in his family unit. He lives together with his sister lily his father and his mother. In the community there are different ceremonies for every age.
After the Ceremony of twelve Jonas is declared to be the new Receiver of Memory and starts his training with getting memories of many eras before he lived. He gets memories of war, elephant hunts, snow and riding a sled, sunshine and such things. But very important is that he learns to see colours. That's important because no one of the citizens can see colours. In this world they achieved "sameness". They got neither weather nor any differences between them. When Jonas begins to discover the dark side of the community he is in fear of it. He begins to see, that nothing is as perfect as it seems.
He discovers that in this community many people are murdered every day when they break a rule or when they got to old. When the foster child Gabriel of his family unit shall be killed he decides to escape with him to "Elsewhere", a different and better world.
The opinion of Johannes: At first I found this book boring but when we read further parts of the book it got more and more interesting then I began to read this book with more interest and I began to read it very fast. In the end I found that book interesting and informative but I think that it is not really good written.
The opinion of Vitali:
I found it interesting to read about a book which deals with a different community and with other rules then we have. But I can't imagine that no one apart from the Receiver can see colours or hear music. First I found the book a little bit confusing, but then it was clearer. The book is well written but for a German pupil it is a little bit difficult to understand all the vocabulary. Also I think that the ending is felicitous, because it makes you think further, what could happen.
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Summary: The Giver: A book review by Felix and Katja
Review: We are from a senior high school (Gymnasium) in Germany and read "The Giver" in our English lessons. We had to do mind maps, reviews, presentations and so on. All in all it was a time with a lot of work to do, but although with a lot of fun.
The society we find in the book seems ideal. Everyone has a job for which he or she is suited emotionally, physically and mentally. The elderly are lovingly cared for. Every family has a mother, father, and two children, one of each sex. There is much laughter and joy. There is no rudeness, no crime and no disease.
We see it all through the eyes of Jonas, a young boy about to receive his life's assignment along with others of his age group. To his surprise he is given the most respected job of all. He is to be trained to become the "Receiver of Memory". You see, in the society Lowry has created for us, the people don't want to be stressed with memories. However, they also don't want to make decisions or changes which, in the past, have led to disaster so they have assigned one person to keep all the memories of history, their own and that of all societies.
The Receiver's job is to listen to their plans and just tell them whether or not they should do it based on the lessons of history. The present Receiver now sets about giving the memories- all of them - to Jonas. He does so through all of the senses. Jonas learns about war and hate, about snow and trees and colours. All of which are not present in this society. He also learns of the horror all around him. This novel is not difficult to read.
I liked reading the book, it was not hard for me and I knew nearly all vocabulary. On the one hand it was not the kind of book I would read in my free time, but on the other hand I enjoyed reading it. The book showed us to keep individualism and not to build a perfect state, so the book is also transferable to our society. -Felix-
I have to say that I don't like most science fiction books. It's only that I like this work although it is a science fiction and fantasy book. I liked the way Lois Lowry described the community. At first you think the community is perfect and you may want to live there, but then you see the disadvantages of this way of live that is what makes the book interesting. -Katja-
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Summary: The Giver: A review
Review: 'The Giver', written by Louis Lowry is a fiction novel about a world which seems to be perfect... The world in which Jonas lives seems to be perfect, no suffer no grief no pain and no unemployment. Jonas will soon get an 'Assignment' at the 'Ceremony of twelve', that means
he will get a job. Jonas is chosen to get a job as the 'Receiver', who keeps all the memories
of the past and those, which are withhold from the people of the community. When Jonas begins to receive the memories from the 'Giver' he sees that this 'perfect' world has its seamy side. People aren't allowed to have any feelings, any individualism, own thinking and fun. It is only a world, that works and those who don't fit to it, because they are too old, too weak or break some of the many rules belonging to the community, get killed. When Jonas finds out that his little 'brother' Gabriel (there are no real families, family units get allocated) will be released ( Release is an euphemism for killing) he flees after he talked to the Giver with Gabriel from the community.
My opinion about the book: I like the topic of the book, because it gives us a warning about how the future could look like if we don't care and of some dictators, who try to create totaliarianisms. So I liked the topic, but I didn't like how the author wrote it, because there are too many questions, that were not answered. Besides the whole book is a little bit too trivial and more for little children. Also in some points it is not realistic, but it is just a fictional book.
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Summary: Not just for children anymore...
Review: This book had me drawn in from start to finish. Lowry did an awesome job of making you think. The ending is very open and you may not like that about this book, but it leaves alot of room for discussion in or out of the classroom.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The book The Giver is an outstanding and terrific novel! I really, really enjoyed this book because the story was so intriguing and creative. It was also a very intelligent and meaningful tale. I think that just about anyone can read this book and get a lot of enjoyment out of it. The only requirement for reading this book is to have a creatively thinking mind that can think deeply into the author's theme of the story. The Giver is a deep, well-written, fantastic novel that everyone should read!
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