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Summary: Parallelism between "The Matrix" and "The Giver"
Review: The Giver written by Lois Lowry is a well written book.
Lois Lowry choose a simple writing style, so everyone can understand it. The book is about a boy who lives in a community where everything is the same. Jonas was selected by the comity of the elders for the most honored job of the community. Lois Lowry wants to show the reader how the way of life could be different if everything is same. I think it is a good book because she proposes the reader to think of his own life, after reading the book. It is written like a science fiction story which seams to be very unrealistically. So at the end of the book I thought that there is a parallelism between 'The Matrix' and 'The Giver'. There are many agreements in this two stories because of the parallelism world in 'The Matrix' there are also Machines which have the control of the whole population, they look for the right way of how the people live.
In 'The Giver' there is near the same with the memories. So if the reader is thinking of the difference of his own way of life and of the way of life which Jonas is living it could be interesting.
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Summary: I LIKE this futuristic book
Review: I really like the novel "The Giver" written by Lois Lowry. The Giver is really a children book, but I think it is also for ancient people. It is a good novel, because in this book, you can see a utopian community without death and pain and other negative properties. The writer uses a great fascinated style to describe the community. In this Community is everything the same, no differences. I think, on the one hand, that is good, because the people live peaceful, but on the other hand, the people cannot see colour and other expressions. But it is interesting to read this book, to see which effects cause when everything is not the same.
This book teaches us to be grateful for the gift of choice, the gift of love, and even the gift of pain. I recommend this book for anyone.
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Summary: Good Futuristic story
Review: Lois Lowry's book "The Giver" is a good written book which shows us how our live can be in the future. The book is about a community where everything is the same. Their lifestyle is called "Sameness". The children are born by special birthmothers and not by their biologic mothers like in our world. The people also can't choose their jobs so that everybody get his proffesion by a special group of special observers. There much more differences between Jonas', the main character, and our community so that it will take too much time to list them all out. The story is not really hard too understand so that the book is a good novel to work with it in the English lessons. It shows us how important it is that we can feel pain and of course love.
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Summary: Review of an interesting book
Review: Lowry writes in the novel 'The Giver' an interesting style about a way of life that is totally different from ours. Jonas is a boy who lives in a community of sameness. In the beginning everything seems to be perfect, but then you got the information that there are rules for everything you can imagine and everything is controlled by the elders. After he is chosen to be the new receiver, he gets memories of beautiful things. Now he sees that it is not fair that he is the only one who is able to have them. Now you can see that the life in the community isn't as perfect as it seems to be before.
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Summary: The Giver review
Review: The novel 'The Giver' is about a community without colour, war, love or pain. Everything is the same and under control by 'The Elders'. There are no choices and everybody is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas becomes 12 he is going to receive special training from the Giver. The Giver translates Jonas all the memories and the pleasure of life. There is no turning back for Jonas. As he discovers the secret of the community, he wants to go to Elsewhere. I suggest that book to readers who like to be left wondering and thinking, because if you read this book, that's you will be doing by the end.
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Summary: Anybody should read this book
Review: Firstly I want to say that the book gives me a very horrifying impression. The shown sameness seams unbelievable to me. I can't imagine a life like this in the novel 'The Giver'. The novel motivated to think about our own life and that it is not naturally to be an individual. In contrast to the people in the community we can make our own decisions and can choose for example our own job. Furthermore we can live where or with which person we want. Finally I can say that I won't live in a community like the one shown in the novel. But those people in the novel didn't know anything else. I want to mention that anybody should read this book.
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Summary: A Futuristic Book.
Review: I really don't know, what I should think about this Book. It tries to question everything, which is normal for us.
The Story is about Jonas, a 12 Year old Boy, who lives in a community, where trough to genetic control, Sameness is everything. The People who live their can neither see colours, nor love the person, they want to love. Families like we know them, don't exist, the people live in Family units, which are found together by the Elders.
On his ceremony of 12, Jonas is chosen, to become the new Receiver of Memory. A person, who keeps all the Memories of the community about live and how live should normally, be.
It's the only Job in the community, where you have something like a private sphere.
As Jonas gets more and more memories about normal live'. He is disappointed, and wants no more live in Sameness. He and 'The Giver', the old receiver of Memory, made a plan how to flee out of the community, and they escaped. On this way, Jonas gave the people back the possibility to have a normal live. If someone is interested in books like this, books which make you think about total control, I hardly recommend this book to them. In my eyes, it was Partly a little bit boring.
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Summary: The Giver- Not just a children's book
Review: FROM A UNIVERSITY STUDENT:I originally had to read this book for a children's literature class that I am taking. As I got through the book I realized that this "children's" book had made me reevaluate how we look at what we would consider to be a "perfect" society. Many people criticize the societies that we live in now and would even suggest that the norms and values practiced in this book would be ideal. The Giver makes us realize that though there are consequences to having choices in a society- choice is freedom from imprisonment of conformity
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Summary: The Giver review
Review: In response to the book The Giver, I have to say this. My virtual high school class is discussing how this book relates to folklore and the lack of it in this society. This book well reflects what will happen to society without the influence of folklore. I enjoyed it because the main character comes to a better realization about the world that he lives in and gets to decide things on his own. I think that the world of today one day could end up like the world in The Giver if we are not careful about what we do. This book may be on the elementary level but it is still an excellent book to read.
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Summary: THE 'GIFT' TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION
Review: The first time I read THE GIVER in 1994, I was absolutely mesmerized. What a compelling idea--a story similar to 1984, only with a darling twelve year old boy (Jonas) who is selected to receive all the memories of his community. What on earth does this mean? Evidently this story takes place in the future where everything is the same. People are all drugged so that they have no emotions. They no longer see a world in color; people who are old or sick are terminated. Only one baby is allowed to survive from a multiple birth. Only certain women are allowed to give birth; the baby is given to a selected man and woman to raise. When the child reaches maturity, the 'parents' are sent to live with other childless couples. There is no love, no pain, not even grandparents. The elders make all decisions. People don't even select their careers.
At the age of twelve, Jonah is chosen to receive all the memories of preceding centuries from the grandfatherly 'giver of memories.' Anyone reading this book will know immediately why Lois Lowery received the Newbery award, which is given to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. The first review I ever read for this book was in the newspaper. The article stated that THE GIVER would become a classic and suggested that readers immediately buy first editions (for an investment). After reading my copy, I bought books for both of my teenagers for Christmas. I loved the book and I really loved the fairytale ending. But then, not too long ago, I started reading some of the reviews on Amazon. People were complaining about the sad ending! What did I miss? When I read an outstanding book, I have a tendency to read way too fast. I can't help it; the better the book, the faster I read. I just can't wait to see what happens next! Consequently, I miss a lot. But, if the book is really outstanding, I'll eventually re-read it, savoring every word. Subsequently, I slowly read THE GIVER again, and now, I'm really not certain about the ending. Did Jonas live happily ever after or was he 'released?' Readers will have to make their own decisions. As for me, I'm going to retain my original, warm fuzzy, happy conclusion and forget I ever read a review!
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