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Summary: ~~~The Giva~~~
Review: The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is not only a strange but an interesting novel.
It is based on the theme on Utopia. To Jonas' world it is Utopia, but to us there are many flaws. One is "Release". Why should a utopian world want to kill because two people look alike or they are handicapped? Everything is planned out for everyone, which means no choices and no freedom. When Jonas is selected to be the "Receiver of Memory", the holder of the past, he realizes that the world he is living in is not perfect after all. Even though the past held pain and sorrow, there is unforgettable love to even it out. So Jonas decides to run away with Gabe for a better, more exciting life in "Elsewhre". On his way there, Jonas begins to see the beauty in life. The life that we are living in now. Lois Lowry is trying to convey an important message through this novel. You don't need to be perfect to succeed. In fact, being perfect is not a good thing. This is a very well written and unique novel.
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Summary: The Giver Review
Review: "The Giver" was an excellent book! I was on the edge of my seat the whole time. I couldn't put it down! It was like I was addicted to it!
I was always reading!
The book taught me a lot about how we live. It taught me about how important love, pain and especially feelings are. Without
these things, we wouldn't be the people we are today. We need feelings to shape us into the people we are going to be. If you go
through life without people loving you and sharing good and bad
times with you, your life is basically incomplete!
Some people like teachers and parents, think that other kids shouldn't read this book because it sets bad examples and deals with serious, mature issues. One thing in the book that they might think is not appropriate is when the young girl injects a needle into her skin to kill herself. People think that this book shows that it is okay to end things when times get tough. They are wrong because the people in the book don't know what they are doing. They don't know death is.
Overall, this is an exceptional book. I would have to say it is very rare that kids are interested in books they read in school and out, so I know this has to be a good book. This is a must-read book!
Written By:Jordan Hobbs
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Summary: Today's world turned upside down
Review: I love science-fiction books. This topic is one that I have never thought about... a perfect world. Life in the community is so orderly and planned out. It is too beyond belief to even begin to comprehend. You can predict what will happen each day. How incredibly boring! In the beginning of the book, it seemed that there was nothing that could be better about this community. Every one was caring, no one was hurt. But after Jonas learns what "release" REALLY is, he realizes that adults do lie. In fact, it is hard to distinguish a lie from the truth, unless you know first hand that the information is incorrect. When I found out that "release" is just a nice term for killing (just as "putting an animal to sleep" is to killing the animal) I learned that this wasn't a perfect world. It is a lieing and cheating world which puts on a crocodile smile to make everything seem as though it were perfect, when in fact, this community is far from it. Everyone is in hiding without the memories, but now that Jonas can release them to the community, they won't have to hide anymore. They can learn instead of following orders.
I think that the end is very abrupt, though, and I would like to see a sequel, and find out what has happened to the community and Jonas and Gabriel.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: I like this book... and all of ideas are exciting to me.
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Summary: The Giver-makes you think about life
Review: Jonas is the twelve-year-old protagonist of this novel. He is living in a world without colours, pain and love. In the Ceremony of Twelve he receives his asseignment: He is the one who is chosen to be the new "Receiver of Memory". When he meets The Giver, who gives him these memories of pain, love and the ability to see colours, his life changes.The journey to the realization that this system is not the right way to achieve peace and silence, is suspense-packed. At first,the daily life of the members of the community is described so lively that you think it is almost real. Every detail that the author mentions helps to create the apparent harmony and this "clean" atmosphere.
When Jonas realizes that there must be a change, the dark secrets of the system come out and the action is rising. The suspense is even growing untill the end, which is open(I dislike this!).You can describe the developpment as a chain reaction- everything Jonas believed in becomes a lie. I think, that Lois Lowry has created a world like this to show us that our life- with all its positive and negative sides- is better than living in an utopia without the thing that made us human-beings human-beings: Humanity
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Summary: The Giver by Colin McLean
Review: Characters:Jonas, Lily, Jonas' Mom, Jonas' Dad,The Giver,Gabriel Setting and Time: The setting is in so-called a perfect world with many different points of view of life. The time is really whenever you want it to be but I think it is in the future. Review: After reading the book, "The Giver," written by Lois Lowry it changed my perspective towards life. Jonas, a 12-year-old boy, living in is what to be a Utopia has just been selected to become the next, "Receiver of Memory," a very powerful job in the community. Everything is going well until Jonas finds out the truth about his community's past from The Giver. Jonas has feelings not many other people have and Jonas has a drastic plan to make the community differently. He takes with him his most precious being in his dwelling, Gabriel. Read this amazing book to find out its weird but great ending. This book, "The Giver," conveys a feeling of confusion but as the story progresses all the knots in the story untie at the end of the book. This story is so abstract in most of the chapters you'll have to re-read the chapter for it to make sense. The book has a sense of belonging towards the end because of the book's actions. This book is well written and has been rewarded with a Newberry Honour Award. The book deserves this award for its continuous page turning action all the way to the end. The Giver is one of the best books I have read in my life. The Giver should have a chance to be read all cross the country by each student in grade 6, 7 and 8. This book should be read all over the world. I give this book a four and a half stars out of five because it deserves a great deal of respect ans has little flaws that do jump out at the reader. I recommend this book to anyone over the age of 11 but they have to be mature enough to handle certain situations.
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Summary: the giver review by:Cory Charlton
Review: I found that The Giver quite amusing. The Giver is about a community not an ordinary community this community is so called perfect. This book is about a kid named Jonas.(Every year they have an assembly and all of the people(s) birthdays are all on the same day.)This last assembly Jonas received a job Jonas had been selected. Jonas is a very important person in this book. I really liked the book except for the end because it really stumped me did he die ?, or did he live? If you want to red this phenomenal book that is rated to all ages than I guess this book is the book.I found this book the best I ever read. I rate this 4.75 stars.
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Summary: By Hamzah Khalaf You Won't Believe How Good This Book Is.
Review: First of all I must say this was the best book I've ever read in my life! Like how she leaves it an open ending is really cool because you try to guess what it is. What I'm trying to say is that this no ordinary book, this book is about a 12- year old boy that lives in a society that has no flaws,feelings or love and is perfect, but the people don't know that it has many flaws in it the people don't know there are flaws because their feelings where washed away fro m their memories so it becomes a perfect society. Jonas, is chosen to become the Receiver of Memory and has to keep all the good and bad memories which are given to him from the giver from the people so it become a perfect community. This book might have to do with a death but it becomes a cool mystery as it goes to the end, so if you like mystery books I guarantee you the you will like this book.
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Summary: The Giver Reveieu
Review: I think the book, "The Giver", is an interesting, but slow book. It is interesting because it uses odd ideas, but the ideas are not hard to understand. In The Giver, people could not see colour, be in love or sad. If someone were sad, they would want something, and if someone wanted something, that person would want to steal, and if someone steals, people would hate each other and if people hated each other war would break out. If there was colour, people might prefer a certain colour. If people preferred a certain colour, they would want that colour, so colour is removed from the community The Giver is told in.
Some people may censer this book because of nudity and people killing themselves, but the events in this book are very important to the plot. In the book, if someone does something wrong, they are released. Release is death, but no one in the community knows what death is. All people in The Giver are happy and feel they are in paradise, but no one knows anything better then their life.
If I had to rate The Giver, I would give it a three and a half stars. The reason i would give this book three and a half stars is because I found the book a bit slow. The book was a bit slow because nothing happened till about half way into the book.
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Summary: (G)this (I) book (V) is (E) great!! (R)
Review: When I saw this book the first, 'perfect world' I thought this book's story might be magic stuff. But I knew this book is not and this is new for me.
From now I'm going to tell you how I felt and ow I think this book was.
First, this book's story and organization are very good. However all books have some problem I think. There wasn't main or many problems but this book doesn't have much instruction or explanation. Like when I see some things that are strange to me, I just could think that's just because this book's background's different as ours. I know this writer tried to make some new story.
Second, thanks to the writer Lois Lowry who wrote this book. Because when I read this book, I felt like I'm being in Jonas' world and I always wonder what will happen after.
Third, Jonas' world that she made was interesting and gave me a chance to think about that type of story. I guess no one's made or thought that type of world or things. Because since now, all books' main story was our world. Like how we live or how we think. If she didn't wrote this book, we couldn't think about that world.
So if I rate this book I will give 4.5 stars.
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