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Summary: To Williams
Review: The Giver was an extrordinary book that opened up my imagination, and even though I had to read it for language arts I'm glad I did. All through this book I discovered things as if I was Jonas trying to piece things togther. It was written well with depth and understanding. It isn't just a book about a boy in a strange society; It's a book connecting to our daily lives and controversies happening right now. This is a very good book!
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was a great book! And I don't really like to read books. But The Giver was different. It contained tons of interesting scenes. Therefore I recommend this book to everyone who can read. READ IT!!!!!!!
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Summary: The Imperfection of Perfection
Review: Imagine you live in a bubble. Things can't get in, like pain, loneliness and misery. But neither can pride, love and joy. Lois Lowry has created a world where this is everyone's lifestyle. In The Giver, people don't choose to live this way, they just do. A boy called Jonas peacefully lives like this until he meets the Giver, who makes little holes in his bubble letting in the once forbidden emotions and feelings.
Jonas is pretty content with his life. He lives with his mother, father and sister Lily. He's got two good friends Asher and Fiona. Even his father got permission to have a baby called Gabe live with them until he must live with different parents. Sure, he has to follow strict rules, must take pills to get rid of "stirrings" can't lie, must have the "right" life a child should have, and can't ask questions regarding any differences between two people (it would be rude, after all). But to him, people have been following these strict rules forever.
But time is suddenly spiraling very close to the Ceremony of Twelve where his lifelong job will be assigned to him. For everyone else it seems so obvious what they'll be. But for Jonas? Nothing's really fitting for him. When the time finally arrives, Jonas is assigned, or more, selected to be the new Receiver of Memory, a job he didn't even know existed. His responsibility as the new receiver is to take memories of living, really living from the old Receiver, who will pass that name to Jonas and become the Giver.
Jonas is suddenly revealed to a whole new world. Snow, sleds, sunsets, tranquility, sunshine, flowers, colors, families and most importantly, love. But the Giver must now show him why all that was left behind and a concept that they have lived with so long called Sameness replaced it. He must show Jonas the fear, the loneliness, the pain. But even with a terrifying memory of war, Jonas is not defeated, or even down. He now knows what he must do, especially after a horrible realization and truth about a childhood question. He knows he must free these memories, giving everyone the chance to live a real life, destroy Sameness and save an innocent baby's life.
When we first step into Jonas's life, nothing really makes sense. You're always asking yourself, "what did they mean by that?" It has sort of a strange feel. For example, the word animal is no longer a noun, they were taken away. It's an adjective only. This is a little passage of the book where Jonas is talking to Lily. '"They acted like...." "Animals?" suggested Jonas. Neither child knew what the word meant, exactly, but it was often used to describe someone uneducated or clumsy, someone who didn't fit in.'
A proverb that comes to mind with this is "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it." Because in the book it shows those of us that wish for a perfect life should see what that could do to us. Lois Lowry gives you the power to believe what happens next. In an intentional clever way, the book is a bit vague at points, letting you ask yourself what should be there and what it means. For example, throughout the book, there is a mysterious concept of "release" a great punishment for some, and a huge reward for others. But for awhile it's just a gray area that you can use a dark pencil to put in what you want there.
Nearing the end, the rapidness slows down a little, but only enough to really understand what's going on fully, unlike the other parts where its always 2 feet ahead of you. The very end gets a little blurry, but so does Jonas's mind which makes us feel like we've been brought alone with him. And the conclusion is up to you on how things should end.
The Giver can be sci-fi or fantasy, depending on how you read it. It's for a person who likes thoughtful books that make you think and don't end when you've read the last word of the last chapter and continues in your head for days. But it's also for people where that's the last kind of book they want, and what they do want is an exciting, want-to-jump-into-the-text feeling while reading the book. And people in between? Of course! This book is ideal for any 12 and up. Looking at you perspective on life a little differently can never be outgrown, so this is a fascinating book for adults as well as kids.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry is a book about life and what we take for granted in it. Lowry shows all the different things that we do in every day life that in the utopian community, in the book, the people can not do. For example, the people get assigned their jobs, they dont have the freedom to chose it themselves. I think The Giver is a great book to learn some of life's lessons from. Though Lowry contradicts her story a couple times it is over all an interesting book. I believe that every one should read this book.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The giver is an outstanding book. This book shows how the lives of the people in the community is different than that of ours. Their life was more protected and kept to themselves than ours is. Our life is just plain out unpredictable.
At first I thought the book was boring because I dont usually like how books just take so much time in explaining the background of the story. I like books that just start out with the story then slowly have flash backs and tell what happened in the past. This book got interesting when Jonas became the Reciever of memory. Therefore I liked the book and i recomend that many people should read this.
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Summary: I LIKE THIS BOOK- Josh Schyler
Review: I read this book to a boy named Hckmoud that cant read and has no clothes no food no shelter or anything he enjoyed the book and so did I.
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Summary: Debated, Reviewed, Loved: THE GIVER.
Review: Choices. Change. Love. Pain. Sensuality, growing up, becoming an individual, being DIFFERENT. Lies, overprotection, and even murder. Now tell me, how could such a book not be completely enjoyed?! The first time I read it, a couple years ago, I didn't comprehend the REAL meaning of this book...(or should I say several meanings?) To put it simply, I just didn't get it--especially the ending. At first I thought it was completely stupid..I mean, THERE IS NO REAL ENDING! How in the world are we supposed to enjoy that, Lois Lowry!? Hahaha.. what was I thinking? Now I take that all back. Upon reading this book again and actually analyzing it in my Language Arts class, I got a MUCH deeper meaning. The dying elephant memory that Jonas recieved could represent the MEMORIES, which are dying. (what do elephants have? a GOOD MEMORY.) I NEVER would have come to that conclusion until we had a class discussion... I've discussed this book with several of my friends and we all love this book. It covers all the topics we have/will come across in this world--in the past, present, and most likely the future. Perhaps Jonas may have traveled in a large circle back to his own community where the memories were released and things were back to normal with both love AND pain...Perhaps the music he heard was the Giver finally joining his beloved Rosemary. Who knows? This is a great book which made ME certainly think: would I rather live a life with color, music, love, pain, war,and hatred... or one without? The answer can only be up to you, along with the ending, which is one of the several reasons I have debated, reviewed, and loved THE GIVER.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: This book, The Giver, is a pretty ok book I guess. In some parts you get confused because Lois Lowry didnt really explain it that well. In some chapters it made me want to think ahead of what was going to happen next. In the beginning the book was pretty boring. However it was ok later on.
This book makes you think of your own pictures in your head. Some things in the book shocked me like Jonas recieved memories and the punishment Babies and the Old's got.
This book has very good vocabulary words, that some of them you have to look up while your reading ( unless you know the word) i recomened this book for kids starting from the age 12. Even so in that age, you will get confused a little. Lowry says something doesnt exist like war and the weapons, but later on it says that Asher and other friends were playing with imaginary "WEAPONS". Overall this book is very interesting...
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Summary: what a great book!
Review: At first, like all books it was kind of boring, but then later on, it got really interesting and made me want to read on. I think the book had a great ending because everything seemed to just fall into place. READ IT READ IT READ IT!
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Summary: the giver
Review: The Giver
The novel, the Giver, by Lois Lowry is about a boy who is called Jonas. He
lives in a community which seems to be a perfect world. In the Ceremony of 12
Jonas becomes the new Receiver of Memory. His live changes rapidely, because
he learns how the real world looks like. At last he escapes.
We find that its a nice story. The first part of the story was very boring,
because it describes the Community. When Jonas becomes the Receiver of Memory
the story began to be exciting. In the whole story there is not much
action!!!!
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