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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was a great novel because it always keeps you on your toes and makes you stop and think about life. It is a novel about a boy named Jonas who lives in a utopia with no differences, he is given a respected job, he is notified that in the training of his new job there will be pain it is called the job of receiving memory. In training Jonas receives things that people in the community are not given such as color, choice, memory of war, snow, sun, love and hate. Jonas is overwhelmed with painful and cherished memories and realizes that a perfect world for one person is not a perfect world for another, but he and the previous receiver of memory are the only ones that know this because the other people if the communities don’t experience choice, love or hate. Jonas finally decides to escape the community and leave all the memories to the community and the old receiver of memory.
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Summary: Very Intresting
Review: This book shows what it is like in a world with everyone
the same and no choices. Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver
and discovers the pain and joy of the earlier years. It is a
very good and inspiring book.
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Summary: An Air to Hope
Review: Ah, The Giver is one of those few books which can completely captivate the mind and soul... and can do so with such simplistic and discernable writing.The Giver is the story of a futuristic society where choices are premade, emotions are fake, and human urges are supressed. Jonas is the novel's protagonist. He is an intelligent child who quickly finds out that this 'utopian' society is much more of a dystopian hell. As I read through this book, I was able to find shades of Orwell's 1984 or Huxley's BRAVE NEW WORLD; however, The Giver is quite distinct. Though it's concepts are not new, the way in which they are presented are quite spectacular. My advice would be to not read the reviews... for they will only ruin the book for you. As I read the book (having not previously known the action of the story) I was actually shocked and almost driven to tears at points. I was amazingly affected by this spectacular novel. Finally, to clear up the misunderstanding about the book's ambiguous ending. This ending NEEDED to be the conclusion. Thus we can truly decide if this novel should be considered a utopian or dystopian world. Compare this to the other great 'dystopian' novels 1984 and BRAVE NEW WORLD... both have a definate ending. This novel gives the reader a chance to believe... a chance to have faith... but most importantly, it gives the reader hope: a hope which The Community would never be able to 'release.'...
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is an excellent newbery that portraits a world unlike our own. That world is a well organized society where people are put into jobs by the Elderly and a happy, peaceful place. However, this world is dull in color and sound. This is a place that needs color and music. It also needs it's people to sense feelings and even weather: happiness, coldness, and disaster. A boy named Jonas has been chosen to hold these memories of the past, for his job is the Receiver ,from the Giver (pervious Receiver). But, now he sees how his world is dull in appearance and understanding, he's goimg to change it.
I highly recommend this book because of it's text. This book has adventure and lots of cliffhangers, which will make you want to just keep reading. I believe, one of the most important things this book is trying to help us understand our world. There are still many thing we haven't experienced like real starvation in poor countries or being bombed by planes.
The Giver has helped me really understand our world.
My favorite part of this newbery is when Jonas is thinking about what he has learned as a Receiver. He started to think about the world's past (our world). He compared it to his world to our's and found out one thing: the other people in the community have no experience with real feelings. Once, his sister said she was very angry for a boy cutting inline for a slide. However, she has no idea what anger is, like Jonas. She felt only shallow impatience, not true anger. This is why it is my favorite part.
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Summary: This book was great
Review: I really liked this book.(I read this book in a classroom) I have to admit that at first I was board with the book, but as time passed and i paid more attention to what the reader was reading, I got really into the book and i could really relate to what the author was trying to say in each chapter. I recommend this book to...well, everyone because it will leave you with many thoughts and will make you enjoy the world as it is, even with the major problems we face in everyday life. I was really touched by the main character's courage and his determination. He sets an example for us all. Please take my advise into consideration and read this book.
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Summary: Giver
Review: The book was okay, it was a good idea too have a futuristic communitty, but there was a lot more the author could have done with the book, I mean The auther could have made it more interesting than she did. The ending was really bad too. It was confusing, and I just thought it was like the author gave up on it. I don't think she tried hard enough to make it good.
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Summary: Maybe for a Proffessor of Grammar...
Review: Lois Lowry has put together a choppy and strangely written
chronicle of conformity. Young Jonas lives in a community of samness and safety--- that provides the extremely dull basis for the first few chapters.
Maybe it would be better if the action started sooner, the
detail might please, oh, how about a professor of grammar? BORING! For a kid, defintely too physcological.
The character were quite realistic however.
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Summary: Review on The Giver
Review: This book is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect organized world. In this world everyone is assigned a role. When Jonas was twelve he received the highest honor in the community, the job he was assigned to was "Receiver of Memory". Jonas's new job description was that he would bare the memories of the town and the world before the community was formed in order to protect the people. He has a specific ability to see color and that is how he was chosen for the job. Jonas meets with the old receiver, now called "The Giver", everyday in order for him to give him all the memories good and bad. After receiving most of the memories Jonas began to feel a great burden and understand the truth about this utopian society. Jonas knew the injustice and horror that occurred in order to keep the society in this "perfect" condition. Jonas believed that the memories he was receiving should belong to the people. He and the Giver think up a plan that will ensure Jonas's escape from the community and the return of all the memories. With his leaving the community the memories the Giver had given him would be released into the minds of all the residents of the community. It was the only way to change the communities understanding.
I loved Lois Lowry's imagination in creating this story. She allows everyone when reading this book to examine their own values on controversial issues in their own society and indirectly challenges them to change the issues.
I loved this book for its brilliant story. I really do feel that you get something different from it whenever you read it. I read this book in sixth or seventh grade and I did not get as much out of it as I did now. I loved following Jonas through the story. You could so easily imagine the society due to the very elaborate descriptions Lowry gave. An excellent story.
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Summary: The Giver: A Perfect World
Review: This book is on n amzing subbject. One that's probaly bounced in and out of oe's mind.
You can tell it was well thought out and planned. There are not a lot of deatails in this book but it is one of the few that doesn't need it. It's better to let the mind imagin it.
I love this book. It's not exactly inspiring but most deffinently thought provoking.
I recomend this book to older chldren, preteens, and adults. There's a little bit for everyone.
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Summary: The world is NOT black & white
Review: A fine, insightful Dystopian novel of a "perfect" world which is anything but, "The Giver" belongs on the small but important shelf of such cautionary novels as "1984" & "Brave New World." However, after reading so many of the previous reviews, it's fascinating & revealing to see that so many readers think of the Community as being Communistic, when in fact it depicts the end result of any True Believer mentality: There is only One Way, Our Way. It could just as easily be a fundamentalist community of any religious stripe, or one of any ideologically-mandated group. Let's not forget that we have plenty of people right here in America who are convinced they know what's best for everyone, and who believe we should all be forced to live according to their beliefs; quite often they're the ones waving a flag and/or a cross most vehemently. In fact, there's one more book that readers of "The Giver" should consult: Sinclair Lewis' pre-WWII novel of Fascism coming to America, "It Can't Happen Here." Because as "The Giver" warns us, it can happen anywhere. Including Here.
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