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Summary: Yuck!?!
Review: I couldn't finish this book, but I got far enough through it to know that I didn't like it. It is sort of a gated community slash perfect world type setting, where nothing really interesting ever happens. Duh!!!
Trevor
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Summary: Wonderful Novel
Review: The Giver is a one of a kind masterpiece written by Lois Lowry. Jonas is an adventurous, courageous boy who undertakes the perilous job of Reciever of Memories (in training). The old Reciever of Memories keeps all the memories of the town from the old, outside world, inside him, many of which show him great pain, which he must now transfer to Jonas.
A terrific book, Lois Lowry has yet again created a tragic yet wonderfully written fantasy. Caught by the suspense woven into her story, this book took me around 3-4 hrs. to read at an estimate.
The ending came as a surprise, yet was tragically heroic of Jonas. This is a one-in-a-lifetime book. Try it out.
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Summary: To The Author
Review: I thought the book was very interesting. I like what you did at describing the "community." The way you didn't make it sound plain and ordinary. I also liked the way you used very discriptive words with this book, because it makes it more interesting.
I thought the ending was a little bit overwhelming, because of the hang off. You just left us there wondering what would and what could have happened to Jonas. "The Giver" needs a sequel though. It's hard to read a book not knowing the end and than you don't find out what happened.
Overall I thought the book was really great, just a few adjustments and it could have been better.-AMM,7.3
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a wonderful book. Jonas (main charcter) is a very quiet child. He lives in a community with no pain, color,or free will. He is chosen to be the Receiever, and gets all of the old memories. He now knows what life would be like with pain, color, and free will. When reading The Giver the reader is anticipating when Jonas gets chosen to be the Receiver because the ceromany takes two days. I would recomend this book to children ten and up. If you liked this book read the sequal Gathering Blue.
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Summary: The Best Book Ever
Review: The Giver was the best book ever! Jonas, the main character, lives in a Utopian society where everything is perfect and his life is all well until he becomes "a twelve" and he is given the honor of upholding all of the community memories. The Giver passes good and horrible memories to Jonas, that he will have to bear for the rest of his life. Jonas becomes scared and he doesn't know what to do. The Giver helps Jonas and throughout the book they become very close friends. This book always keeps you interested, and you won't want to put it down!
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Summary: The Giver....Great Book
Review: This book was very good. It is about a 12 year old boy named Jonas who becomes the Receiver of Memory. He learns about everything that was and now is not. He lives in a city with no color or pain. The next year he runs away to try to find a city with color and snow and rain.
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Summary: The One and Only; The Giver
Review: Jonas is a young boy who is twelve years of age. Jonas lives in an utopian society where everything has the characteristic of being the same. The Elders of the community, who act as dictators, assign Jonas the position The Receiver. Jonas is instructed to receive memories of ancient civilizations from The Giver. Jonas receives memories of pain, love, hunger, war, color, and fear. These things have never been felt by Jonas or anyone except The Giver before. Upon realizing that he is living in a wonderland of sameness, Jonas plots to run away from the community in hopes of arriving at at place where "real" life exists. Enduring through the hard journey of escape, Jonas experinces these feelings first hand. Lois Lowery does a fantastic job of illustrating a world with no feelings. The Giver flows smoothly and is a easy reader but beware, after reading it you will never look at the feelings we have the same way.
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Summary: The Giver: Utopia versus Reality
Review: The Giver is a thought provoking book. The community is controlled by a group of elders who believe they are protecting the people of their community. The people in the community experience a life without pain and little emotion and no memories of the past. This is seemingly a wonderful life except it is a life controlled by a committee. There is however, one individual the Giver, who carries the burden of all memory, emotions and suffering for the community. He is like Jesus who died on the cross and took all of our sins with Him except the Giver is not perfect. Therefore, every number of years a new child is picked by the committee to be the receiver of all the pain, memories and emotion. The current giver passes this on to the new giver and so the community continues until one receiver no longer plays by the rules of the community. The burden of being the reciever is great and they bare much pain during this time. I like how Jonas became the receiver and took up all the memories and realized all that is wrong about the community. I dislike that there is no lovingness between the members of the community. They have no pain but they also lack any real passion or love. It made me appreciate that although life can be difficult (there is real good and real bad), these two conflicting emotions are what bring vitality to life.
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Summary: The Wonderous Book by Lois Lowery
Review: The Giver, is a great book, about a twelve year old boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a utopian society where everyday activates are all characterized by sameness. In the community there is no such thing as pain and there is no fear, no hunger, and no war. In a community empowered by The Elders, Jonas is assigned to be the next Receiver. The Receiver's job is to receive ancient memories of old civilizations from The Giver. The memories include war, pain, hurt, hunger, and love. The memories of these feelings have never been experienced before by Jonas. Jonas divises a plot to escape the community and travel to a place where "real" life exists. The Giver is a great book that will keep your attention. It is hard to understand a world without these feelings, but Lois Lowery does a great job illustrating what it would be like. She also gives you a greater appreciation of the feelings that we experience in life.
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Summary: Really Good
Review: The Giver is a good and interesting book even though I hated the ending. Anyway, I still give the book five stars.
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