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Summary: Impressive, Most Impressive
Review: I found this book to be very good. It is about a boy named Jonas. He has a family unit that consists of a mother, 1 adopted daughter, 1 adopted son and 1 father. In this case, Jonas is the son. Jonas has just been "selected" to be the "Receiver" or the "Giver". Now that he has the memories of sled rides, sail boat rides and other great things, he can see colors but no one else understands him so he has to try to explain everything but it is too hard. He has the ability to ask whatever he wants. There are other things in the story, but you have to read this great book to find out.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: This was a great book. It's about a boy named Jonas who live's in a strict community. They can't fight, they can't see colors. Each family is assigned a boy and a girl and at the age of 12 a job for life. Jonas is a boy who stands out as being very different from the others in his community. When Jonas gets older, he is selected to become the next Receiver of Memory. This is not an ordinary job but one that has a lot of honor. The story tells how Jonas gets to "receive" his memories. It's a really exciting book. I recommend it.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a well written book. It will keep you reading for a long time. It is about a kid named Jonas who lives in a town where everything is the same. When Jonas turns twelve he is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. There is no turning back now.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was a terrificly written book about a boy named Jonas and his life, in this strange community. A town without happiness,pain,color,difference. Everyone does certain things at the same time. Every year there is a moving up ceremony. The 9's get a bike while the 12's get their assignments. The committee of Elders assigns each child the perfect job. Jonas becomes the Receiver of Memory, the only one who has memories of long ago. Jonas learns pain, see color, feels happiness like never before. He recieves memories of everything. The memories that were cast out when there was no difference. This is a great book and I recommend it to everyone.
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Summary: The Giver, An Exceptional Story
Review: You start the book watching an eleven year old boy, Jonas, who is excited about a coming of age celebration and getting to know his family. After the celebration a stunned and nervous Jonas starts his training for the future and begins to learn that life isn't quite as perfect in his town as people would have you believe. Lois Lowry paints the picture of this world, and its characters, so vividly that you lose yourself and find it almost impossible to put the book down!
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Summary: The Book is ok!!!!!!!!
Review: I think the book is ok, in the begining it is very boring and confusing, but in the middle of thr book it gets very good.
I really hate the ending of the book..........:(
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Summary: The Giver is a really good book
Review: The Giver is a really good book, which displays science-fiction, and fantasy. It is about a boy who gets chosen by the elders (the committee people) to be the reciever of memory. The Giver has to give memories to him. The memories of the utopian society is kept with them.
The community is perfect, but there is no color or feelings of pain, sorrow and love. So in the future they got rid of their past. Jonas made plans to escape to "Elsewhere" and went taking the baby, "Gabe." I can't explain everything because there's a lot to explain. Jonas' community has "sameness" which in other words means that everyone is almost the same. Their "family units" have to have four people.
Anyways, at the end the author leaves the ending in suspense leaving you to imagine what happens next. I rate this 4 stars out of five.
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Summary: Great Book
Review: This was a great book. It was a little confusing in the beginning because I didn't understand why they didn't have sunshine or the other things Jonas saw in the memories. I figured it out when The Giver started talking about Samness. The only thing I didn't really like about the book was the end. It just ended without telling what happend to him. He was just sitting there. I think there should be an epilogue or a sequel. (if there already is a sequel I have never heard of it) I don't think this book would have been good in first person because it would be like Jonas is telling the story. I don't think the book would be good in present tense either because it just wouldn't make sense. I like how it doesn't explain a lot about what happends in between 12 and 13. It doesn't need to because The Giver is just basically giving him memories. Anything else that happends (if it's important) is said. This is a great book and I recomend it for all children, young adults and adults who can read. If you are one of these people, READ IT! Doris
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Summary: An intriguing, emotional trip you will never forget!
Review: I have always enjoyed the books we read in class, a bit more than the others. I would recieve it and have the first five chapters done by the next day. But this book wowed me. I had finished by the time the rest were reading the first chapter. It tells the tale of life how so many of us wish it were like: perfect; no crime, no poverty. No sadness. Before reading it, our teacher asked us to describe our idea of a utopia in a paragraph. Everyone wrote of a crime and poverty free world (and of course there was the occasional mountain of icecream). Then she told us, what if you had to sacrifice something in return? Such as emotion? We didn't know how to return her question. Emotions are a wonderful thing that we have, but still... This book involves a world in which no one knows love, but lives without hate. When Jonas, a 12 year old boy is given the memories of when life wasn't so perfect, he decides to the fate of his world into his hands. A thrilling adventure that will leave your heart aching.
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Summary: The Giver -The Best Book!!
Review: The giver was probally the best book. It is about a young boy named Jonas who is going to be the reciever. Jonas's world is plain. There is no color, differences, and you are assigned a job when you are 12. There is no birthdays or holidays. Their only holiday is when the anouncer says it is an uninspected holiday. It means that you do not have to go to school, work, or no traning hours. When Jonas goes to the Annex room everyday he gets memorys from long ago. You should read this book! I do not want to tell you any more!!
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