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Summary: An excellent novel!
Review: The Giver takes place in a Utopian society where everything is under control and there are no choices, war, fear, or pain. I think that the author, Lois Lowry, presents a glimpse of what our world could one day be like through the eyes of a young boy named Jonas. It would be a world with no war, pain, and homelessness, but also no love,feelings, colour, and happiness. In this novel, I think that the author presents us with a powerful thought that forces us to reflect about our lives until we can really appreciate the true meaning of life. I would strongly recommend The Giver to anyone of any age, because I feel it has a significant meaning to get across to all its readers. The Giver is an excellent novel that ultimately depends upon the opinion and interpretation of each of its readers to create the ending. If you ever need a book to read, try reading The Giver, I would be surprised if you didn't enjoy it!
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Summary: The Giver - by Lois Lowry
Review: ' The Giver ', by Lois Lowry, reflects on the wonderful freedom that comes with individuality of character. Jonas, the main focus of the story, is a boy living a normal life in his community. Regulated by strict laws, blinded to color, deafened to music, and bearing no memories of a time before their own, the citizens of the community are dominated by a state known as Sameness. They have a contained, controlled, and predictable way of life. Pain and pleasure are not known to them, because their emotions and feelings have also been taken away, quelled by drugs that all of them take daily. But one among them is selected to hold all the memories of the world, color and music and joy and grief. He chooses Jonas as his successor, and passes his memories on to him. As Jonas learns about the true feelings of life, he and The Giver formulate a plan to give the community back the memories that they lost and regain a truer sense of life.
' The Giver ' takes place in a Utopian, "perfect" community of the future. Jonas and the Giver struggle to bring back to the community the memories of the past. -from Nacho Gal
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Summary: The Giver by Lois Lowry
Review: Jonas grows up knowing nothing but the rules. He has known nothing but right and wrong his whole life. Growing up in a community where the best is expected and everything is uniform. Then at the age of 12 everything changes. At 12 community members get their life assignment. Jonas is chosen to fulfill the most respected and greatest job, the Giver. His training is both painful to the body and to the heart. He learns about himself and about what the community is really like not seen by the naked eye.
This story is great if you want to be amazed and are looking for a great read. The book is packed with adventure and surprise.It is full of twists and turns you will enjoy very much. It will make you stay up all night reading it and is a real page-turner. The Giver is one of the best books I have ever read and I would recommend it to anyone who likes good books and great stories.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: A life with... no color, no choices and no love. The community that Jonas lives in, lives without those and many other things. The people in that community have no clue what those things are and Jonas doesn't either until he becomes a 12 and receives his job assignment. In this community you have no choices, you look basically like everyone else, you don't decide your job, or who you're going to marry. Pretty much your whole life is decided by the elders in the community. Jonas is assigned to a rarely given job, Receiver of Memories. He gets the good memories, like snow, colors and love. But Jonas can't take the memories of war and pain. What is he going to do! I would recamend this book to anyone, but it is kind of disturbing at times.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: After reading some of the multitude of reviews already written about this particular novel, I felt an overwhelming urge to put my (i hope valuable) two cents into the pile.First off, I would like to say that I think that this book is brilliant. Well-written, a fascinating story of a utopia gone wrong, quite similar to Orwell's "1984." The premise is interesting, the style is fitting, and the layers of meaning are thought-provoking. Need I say more? Obviously. Looking at the mass of negative outporing which this book has recieved, I feel it is necessary to make some things clear, even though I am quite sure that this review will glean nothing but scorn from those I am trying to debate with. For all of the 12 year-old readers out there, I am somewhat surprised with the disregard and in some cases complete disgust that this book is being recieved with. When my class read this book when we were 12, we absolutely loved it, and thought much of how we view the world. Perhaps it is a level of maturity that is the issue, or a societal placement, but the fact that fascinating books like this are being left by the wayside frightens me quite a bit. Now, for the people whom I truly wish to pick a bone with: the adult figures declaiming this book as a piece of [garbage] which does not even deserve to be burned. My first comment would have to be that your are being incredibly closed-minded in regards to this book. One should not look at a book in a disrespectful light because one disagrees with it. I mean, you should realize this is a fictional book, and a vehicle for an author's ideas and opinions. It made so we can look at ourselves critically, not so Mr. Deer can go and play with Mr. Goat. Besides, by saying that you wish to protect children from this kind of [book], you are denying exposure to the real world and the many fascinating viewpoints that the world contains. Kids see the fact that life isn't happy-go-lucky every day (especially now since events from last September). Denying anyone the freedom to find out the opinions and ideas of others is a great crime which should not be committed. But hey, I'm just a 14 year-old kid, so what do I know?
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Summary: Good Book
Review: This was a good book, but slightly disturbing at times. The end is suspenseful. This book is full of suprises, but they are sometimes given away by foreshadows... but overall, it's a pretty good book!
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Summary: Extraordinary
Review: The Giver was my first and only (so obviously favorite) book of Lois Lowry's. In the beginning, the world is far into the future. They have all forgotten their past and there is a srtict order of life. But one boy seems to be different from the other children. This boy sees beond what others can. He has a gift to become the next receiver of the past. It starts out as fun and games but there seems to be a lot more than that to the past. Soon he begins to see color instead of the average gray. He soon feels pain where there was none before. He even realizes some of his favorite games as a child were horrific battles in the past. He soon can't take much more and creates a plan with the Giver of information. Lois Lowry was really able to capture my imagination with this book and it remains one of my favorite of all time. And the end just keeps you guessing for more. More that I even wrote an ending for myself. This is a wonderful book thougha tad short and I recommend it to a Lowry fan or any one who likes a good fiction.
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Summary: Choices
Review: I really liked the novel "The Giver". I always kept you thinking about Jonas and his world. Jonas lives in a Utopia where there are no choices, differences, or memories. When he is given a highly respected job, he learns the truth about how communities just like ours really live. While reading this book I started thinking about life without choices. What would it be like? The little things that we take for granted would not be there. Things like waking up in the morning and choosing whether to wear blue or green, eating a pear or an apple and seeing red or green, or just looking up and seeing the stars, these are all things we take for granted that Jonas didn't have. Eventually, Jonas leaves his community in search for memories and choices. This is the way I would want to live too. I really like the novel and I think that Lois Lowry did a good job writing it. It speaks a great message.
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Summary: As Good as It Gets
Review: The Giver is a story about a boy named Jonas who lives in a community that is guided by rituals and rules. There are very few choices to make because the major decisions of each person's life are made by a committee. When Jonas turns twelve, he is told that he will have the most important role in the community: he will be The Reciever of Memories. This is a job unlike all other jobs in the community, because The Reciever is the only person in the community who knows the truth about the outside world and understands true pleasure and pain. I first read this book when I was in 7th grade. I enjoyed it so much that I decided to reread it as an adult, and I loved it just as much the second time. The characters in this novel are great, and the idea of a Community where there are no choices is fascinating. I would recommend this book to anyone, child or adult.
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Summary: Good Books are Hard to Come By
Review: The Giver is an eye opening book of all genres. I couldn't classify this wonderful story under any category. The tale of a boy in the corrupt world that he lives in reminds me of where our lives are going. Other books by Lois Lowry are good, but this story is the golden age of realistic story telling that I have ever seen.
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