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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver
By: Lois Lowry
Reviewed by: E. Lee
Period: 5 In this book, Jonas, the main character, lives in a perfect world. Here, all the people are assigned jobs and there isn¡¯t any war or pain. As time goes by, Jonas becomes a Twelve and receives an assignment. As easy it may seem, Jonas becomes encouraged for it is a big change that is going to appear. Now as a Twelve, everyone is counting on him for he receives a special assignment. Jonas receives the assignment of being the next Receiver of Memory.
The reason why I like this book, The Giver, is that it showed the same experience as what I went through. In this book, Jonas goes through a stage where he receives a job that he has to complete. ¡° Jonas was identified as a possible Receiver many years ago. We have observed him meticulously. There were no dreams of uncertainty.¡± This reminds me of all the things I had to do as I reached a certain age. Every time I read this book, it showed me that even though you receive a job, you should always try to accomplish it without a complaint. In other words, this book showed me of all the burdens that might pull you down, but you should always try to do your best to release the burden. For that, The Giver was a book I was fond by.
Another reason The Giver was my favorite book is where this book took place. Here in the world where Jonas lives, the people can¡¯t feel pain. ¡° Jonas¡¯s world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain.¡± Also, the world is peaceful without a war to be insight. Comparing this world to the world we live in, there is a big difference. In our world, wars and pain are all felt by the citizens while in Jonas¡¯s world, they don¡¯t. It always seemed to come into my mind the fact that our world can¡¯t be in peace while Jonas¡¯s can. For this, I desire to live a world in peace and somewhere with out pain.
My favorite part would have to be when Jonas¡¯s friend, Asher, called ¡°snacks¡± ¡°smacks¡¯ when he was in hi Threes. Long ago, Asher wanted a snack for he was hungry. When he went to the Chief Elder, he asked, ¡° Can I have some smacks?¡± After that, all the other Threes started laughing and told Asher that it was ¡°snacks¡± not ¡°smacks¡±. This was my favorite part because when Asher said ¡°smacks¡±, I thought he wanted a slap. This was my favorite part for it provided a sense of humor as the book continued.
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Summary: A great book spoiled by the ending
Review: I read The Giver as a school book. I particularly liked Lois Lowry's style of writing and the topic she was writing about. When she gives Jonas a job he is left waiting and it is full of twists and suprises! Lois also does a great job of telling detail using show don't tell!
I was really disappointed with the ending. I thought that Lois Lowry needs a different ending or a epiloge. If she doesn't want either of those then she should simply write a sequal to the book. She leaves you hanging with no clues as of what happens. She never tells you what happens to the community, do they suffer? Does The Giver help them? There are so many wquestions that she doesn't answer and she could answer. One of the previous years classes wrote a letter to Lois Lowry and recieved an auto response stating that Lois liked the ending because she liked letting the reader take the book where ever he or she wanted. She doesn't really give any clues as to where to take the book. The reader really has to decide on his or her own.
I would strongly reccomend this book. Lois takes you on a fun adventure of one charachter, Jonas. He has a special job called The Reciever. He suffers pain and gets happiness, he is the only one seeing color and the only one whon knows what war is. He is the only one to know about death. Go jojin Lois on an adventure through the life of a 12 year old kid in his community. Just one thing, when you don't like the ending because it doesn't end don't come complaining to me. I don't think the book ends. I finished the book yet i did it unwillinglly. Up until the end, the book is happy and then it gets really sad! Read the book to find out about what would happen if you lived in a utopia!
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Summary: WOW!!
Review: The Giver is an amazing piece of work. It is about a boy named Jonas living in a society with no crime, no unhappiness, and no danger. Jonas is nearing his Ceremony of Twelve, when he will receive his assignment that will change his life. He becomes the next Receiver of Memory, and he will be taught by the Giver. The Giver gives Jonas memories of the whole world, and soon Jonas will learn a terrible secret about the society in which they all live. His decision will effect the whole world. I certainly enjoyed this book very much, and I hope you will too.
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Summary: Greative and generally thought provoking
Review: This is a great book about a set-up society. This is how it works: marriages are arranged; the parents don't have their own kids (those come from "birthmothers"), and there are endless rules. It reminded me of "1984" and "Brazil." At certain ages you recieve things; at 1, a family unit; at 9 a bicycle. Each family has a mom, a dad, a daughter, and a son. I don't think animals are evn mentioned in this book, aside from when the Giver gives Jonas the memorey of elephants. Jonas, the son, is assigned reciever of memory-the most honored job in the community. He is the only person in the community (aside from the Giver) who has felt "snow." I really don't want to give anything away (that's why I didn't tell you who or what the Giver was), but read it. 1800 people can't be wrong. ...
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Summary: Haley Wainaright's book review
Review: The Giver is an excellent book and I would recomend it to everyone. This book is about a young boy who lives in a world where there are no decisions or choices. Their jobs are chosen for them at the age of twelve and Jonas, the main character, is chosen to be the Receiver. Only one person is chosen to be the receiver. What Jonas learns about the world where people can make decisions is extremely painful, but also joyous. Find out about why Jonas experiences these feelings and what happens to him next by reading the Giver, an awesome book!
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Summary: Review on The Giver
Review: This book "The Giver" was a weird but interesting book. It was mainly about a boy named Jonas who lives in a society with no feelings, inequalities, hunger, and pain. Each member of the society is given their future occupation at the age of only twelve. Jonas is very scared for his Ceremony of Twelve. He ends up becoming the reciever of memory. By working with the Giver Jonas realizes the truth about his society and what everyone is missing out on. The ending of The Giver is very interesting, it was not what i had expected to happen. I don't want to ruin it for anyone, so just read the book to find out!!
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Summary: The Reciver Of Memory
Review: The Giver
By: Lois Lowry
Reviewed by: W. Horng
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This book is about a young boy who, suprisingly, got the most important and rare job, the Reciever of Memory. At the Ceremony of Twelve, every twleve year old boys and girls get the job of their life. They usually get the job that they wanted the most. Jonas was called on last and was announced the Reciver of Memory. The Receiver's job is to store all of the memory of a person including pain, love, hate, and etc. Jonas's townspeople doesn't have any feelings and their life are always predictable.
I like this book because it has adventures and the part about a person keeping all of the memory that no one else has. Tht's pretty cool, however, then you'll have to be a loner of some kind because you can't share any of your memory and you can't talk to your parents about it either. The other trouble of being a reciver of Memory is the bad memories that are like nightmares! I wouldn't want to be a Reciver because I want to share my feelings with my family and I can not hide them to myself.
My favorite part of the book is when Jonas got his first happy memory. The Reciver all get a set of rules. Guess what, in one of the rules, the Reciver can lie to anybody if he has to, he can even lie to his parents! "He had never, within his memory, been tempted to lie." That's what Jonas thought about lying to people. After a few more trainings, Jonas is starting to see colors. The first color that Jonas saw was red. Jonas loved every class going to the House of the Old and getting a new and happy memory, until now....
That's when the part that I dislike comes up. The memories are not all good, there are always some bad ones. The first bad memory that the Giver gave to Jonas was the pain of sunburn, then the pain of falling down, breaking your leg,and scraping your face against jagged egdes of ice. This is Jonas's feelings when he first got the pain of breaking a leg: "He sat, and looked at his own leg, where it lay stright on the bed, unbroken. The brutal slice of pain was gone. But the leg ached horribly, still, and his face felt raw." If you think that's overwhelming, wait until Jonas first got the memory of war. The experience was frightning, people running for their lives, orphans crying over their family member's death, and soldiers dying at war. Now that's overwhelming for me. Think about it, you even have to carry that memory around you for the rest of your life until you transfer your memory to a new Reciver of Memory.
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Summary: The book that doesn't end!
Review: I read the Giver as a school book. I don't particularly like readin but this book was different. I started reading it and it was amazing, I loved the book. The other day, my teacher made me finish the book. I finished it, not willingly but I did. It doesn't end. This book was an amazing book until the end. The end made it. Lois Lowry leaves you hanging as if you know nothing, and it is hard to guess with the facts they give you. So i told my teacher, she knew and the class discussed it, and then she read us a letter one of her classes wrote to Lois. All she said was she likes the ending! She likes letting the reader decide, yet it was a auto response! I loved the book until now yet I would strongly reccomend it!
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Summary: My review of the book 'The Giver' from Lars Ebmeier
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry is about the life in a strange community, where everything is the same. The book deals with the living conditions of the people in the community, with climate control and the controlling reproduction. It also talks about the problems, which originate from total sameness and the living with no differences.
In my opinion, it was a very interesting story and it was easy to read, because of the well-known action and the problems which are discussed in the book. Moreover the book motivates the reader to think about his life, the life of other people and the whole development of the human society, because we are already in a time, where genetic food manipulation and the manipulation of the genetic code begins to be normal. This is a point you must think about the lots of scientists, who say they do their work only for helping the people and if this development is the correct way in the future.
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Summary: Review Manuel Göding
Review: " The Giver" , by Lois Lowry, is an interesting book, which makes the reader think about a "possible" way of living in the future by describing an utopian community. The protagonist in that community, named Jonas, is a boy in the age of eleven,
who was selected by the Elders (Community Leaders) to become the Receiver of Memories when he turns to the age of twelve. The R.o.M.'s function is to keep the memories and feelings of the community members. These privileges are to "protect" the people of making decisions which could be wrong,
so the community tries to interrupt any feeling which might "destroy" sameness in the community, which even tells us that there is no freedom in the community. Different from the others, the R.o.M. is never observed and he is allowed to have his own feelings and memories. By showing the R.o.M.'s disagreement with the system, Lois Lowry wants to make the reader think about the community's problems. In that community there is a rule for everything and everyone, everything is manipulated and controlled by the elders but not the R.o.M.. By changing Jonas' situation
Lois Lowry makes the reader understand the feelings of Jonas during his training lessons with the Giver. Lois Lowry tries to show the reader her interpretation of possible consequences of observing people in a way, which is easy to understand but it is not only her opinion, it makes the reader think about what might happen if everything is influenced by a system which was made for protecting people from themselves. The way the story ends should make the reader identify with Jonas and his decision to flee, when he tries to find a way out of a system, which he do not agree with.
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