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Summary: The Giver Giveth
Review: The Giver is one of the best short books that I have read. It uses a lot of unusual ideas and dialogue, and the book makes you think of what the future holds for us. In the book, Jonas an 11-year-old boy is about ready to become a man in his community. The community in the book is a utopia, where everything is perfect. He lives in a community where the citizens have never heard of war or pain. Children are assigned to married couples and you have to take pills that will not allow you to have any ... fantasies. Anything that isn't perfect is "released" from the community, including people!
When a young man turns 12 in his community, many responsibilities are put upon him. He is assigned a job according to his abilities and what is good for the community. When Jonas turns 12, he is assigned the job of being the Receiver. The Receiver is one of the highest-ranking jobs in the community. Jonas would have to go the Giver's dwellings and receive all of the memories from the past. The Giver shows him memories of war and pain, which Jonas is devastated by. He also shows him memories of good things like snow and sled-riding, both of which Jonas as never heard of.
The book goes on with Jonas receiving many memories and wanting to experience these feelings. But, he knows that there is no way to experience them there, so he decides to take action.
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Summary: It's a great book!
Review: Hey! WEll, I read this book for my humaties clss this month! And it was a great book! First it sounded boring but it got so interesting afterwards! I recomend this book to anyone who likes scince fiction. But I think that anyone can enjoy this book!
This book is about a boy named Jonas. He has a little sister named Lily. His father is a nuturer. Well, Jonas lives in this DIFFERENT community. It seems very weird to me. Like one thing is that no one in the community is allowed to ride bicycles until they are a Nine(nine years old). Isn't that weird? WEll, in this book, you will find many interesting rules and things happening in thi small but exciting community.
Have fun reading this book!
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Summary: The Giver: A Moving Story for All Ages.
Review: The Giver is a remarkable story about a young boy who discovers a life totally different from his own.
Jonas finally turned a 12 and was very anxious to find out what his role in the community would be. After much exessive worrying, he soon learns that he is to be trained as the new Reciever of Memory, one of the highest ranking jobs in his community.
Throughout his many meetings with the Giver, he learns of a totally new world. Through the shared memories of the past he can longingly look apon a world with both love, sadness, pain, family, and feeling.
But now, because of his new discovery, he looks apon his world with less and less favor. Shortly afterwards an opportunity arises for him to leave his solitary community and become a member of the new world. He is faced with a difficult decision.
This is an extremly powerful novel through which the author expresses courage, love, and friendship. I can confidently recommend it to all ages.
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Summary: A 20-year-old's point of view
Review: I was given (pun unintended) this book as a gift shortly after its publication, but never took the time to read it. Well, I finally did, so here's an adult approach to the novel. First off, I have to say that the first 150 pages of this novel are stunning. The writing is brilliant and the ideas, though simplistic (but then, this is expected for a children's novel), are provocative. I'd say the best description of this would be that this book is the one Philip K. Dick would have written, had he written a children's novel. Unfortunately, the depth of the writing collapses in the end. I guess Lowry suddenly realized she wanted to keep the book under 200 pages in length, and just quickly wrote an ending that lacks almost all of the intelligence of the earlier work. Issues simply are'nt resolved that easily. Well, all in all this is a great book, more mature than I expected (dealing with the issues of puberty and abortion certainly don't usually fall in the children's novel category), but with an ending that could have used quite a bit more polish. Recommended.
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Summary: ok book
Review: we read this book in 7th grade. it was an ok book, kind of odd in some places. I don't know, i just didn't really like the ending. but i have read much worse.
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Summary: Wow!!!
Review: As there are so many reviews that has some kind of spoiler in them,I won't be describing what the book is about. After I finish this book, the first thing that came out of is "WOW." This book describe that a world need conflict and opinion and most of all-LOVE.I'd recommand to age 10+.
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Summary: Good Book but Not Enough Description
Review: The Giver is the Story of a boy coming of age that has been singled out at the time he is supposed to get his job assignment. Jonas, the boy was a seemingly normal boy until he got his job assignment. He was given a job that one person may succeed at and another may not. He has been chosen as his community's next keeper of memories. The community is free from pain and despair except for the keeper of memories was the only one to know of them. He has been given the duty to keep all the good and bad memories of the old time. Once he gets some of his special training by the Giver, the former keeper of memories, he decides that the people need the good and bad memories so that they do not live a controlled life without meaning. While he is trying to give the memories back, he finds another boy that would have been released (which means he would have been killed), if he had not been saved. The story has a great moral. We should not lose our feeling and passion to have a life where there is peace everywhere, but no freedom, a controlled life, where one does not choose to do things. This book was an easy read and it teaches a lot. It teaches that you should have both good and bad. By getting rid of the bad the good is gone. All that is left is things that are not good or bad. The book had a good plot but it did not explain itself enough. It receives a 4 out of five from me.
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Summary: A Wonderful Book for any Great reader
Review: The Giver is a great book by Louis Lowry. It is about a boy in a society far different from our own. They have their own rules and don't make contact with anybody out of their community. They get paired up if they want to be parents, and don't even give birth to their own children. This book is about Jonas, a thirteen-year-old boy who is preparing for the ceremony of twelve. At the ceremony of twelve, they are given their jobs that they train for, and later have as their job for life. They don't make money off of these jobs; here there is no such thing as money. There are many different jobs, birthmother or someone who takes care of the old. Jonas got a very unusual job. During the ceremony of twelve, he got skipped and they did not call him up to receive his job until everyone else had gone up on stage and received their jobs. He was going to be the Receiver. A Receiver was only picked every once in a while. It was very rare to be Receiver. He got a new set of rules and in these rules was something that shocked Jonas. He could not talk to anybody about his job with anybody. Every day after school he went to a small house where the Giver lived. When Jonas first went in, he had no idea what he was in for. What happened was the Giver had the power to transmit memories into people's mind. The people in the community had no pain, no feelings, nothing to hurt them. They could not even see color, but the Giver could. He could see color and he had feelings. Every time Jonas came to the Giver, the Giver would transmit memories. This went on for a year. Some memories were the Giver's, and some were from generations. Some of the memories were happy, and some were sad. Jonas began to see color and have feelings. Eventually he could see everything in color and had feelings for everything. At the end of the story, Jonas gets on his bike and goes on a journey to a place where he had seen in many of his memories, a place far away from his home. He went somewhere far, far away. This is a great book and I would recommend it to almost anybody. It is great for kids as young as nine to an adult. This book is not good for people who only love action books or mystery books. This book is great for anybody who loves to read good writing. The Giver also has a very unusual plot. All and all, this is a great book for any true reader.
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Summary: Even my mom liked it
Review: I read this book when I was in fourth grade and I thought it was really great. I read it over and over- about 5 times in all -and every time I found something I hadn't paid close attention to before. Later, my mom read the book to see why I liked it so much and she read it twice! It's a great book for any age.
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Summary: It really makes you stop and think.
Review: When I read the Giver, it really made me stop and think how the world would be like if it was like Jonas's land. Imagine there being no color, no feeling, no taste or sharpness to anything. Jonas, being appointed the next Giver, realizes how much he doesn't know. The Giver infuses pleasant and unpleasant memories into Jonas, giving him a taste of the world we live in. There are also very strict things in Jonas's world, such as there only being two children in a family, and exiting the world is deemed as a peaceful operation, but it means death, as Jonas finds out. I think this was a very good book, and it makes you realize that what may seem utopian may not be so utopian at all.
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