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Summary: The Giver - A Must Read!!
Review: The Giver is a great book about a mysterious land where towns, called communities have decided on something called sameness. With sameness, everything is the same, no hills, no snow, rain, or wind, and no colors, or taste. But one boy, Jonas was born with the ability to see "beyond." He is then chosen as the new giver. With a great storyline and an amazing twist ending, I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: Running away from home? no family? bring THE GIVER
Review: The Giver is science fiction.The main character would be a 12 yearold named Jonas.This is a community that everything is planned for them: their jobs, their clothing, everything!This community wants no mistakes. Well, Jonas gets given the job of the Giver.The person who gives information to people.Uinfortunatly Jonas doesn't want this job tries to quit but finds out that he can't.Therefore Jonas decides on leaving his family and running away with a boy named Gabe.Jonas didn't have what it took to be the giver.the former reciever of memory was the givers daughter but she had failed to, she couldn't handle the work so she "released" herself. I won't give much more information because if I do I will spoil the book for you.Just read the book with an opened mind.I got to admit the first 3 chapters are boreing but as you read on you will never want to put your book down again!Read it i's give it an award! GREAT job Louis continue your fantastic work!
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Summary: Choices Do Matter
Review: This is a phenomenal book that should be read by every middle school student! It is the story of Jonas, a young boy who lives in a community where everything is perfect. There are no choices that need to be made, there is no pain, no fear, no war.
When children in this community reach twelve years of age, they are given their Assignments. This is their life work and it is chosen for them. Jonas is chosen to be the next Receiver, and he soon learns that the Receiver holds all the memories of the world so the members of the community do not have to experience anything other than the perfect life of the community. Jonas soon experiences these memories, which are nothing like the regulated life he has lived up to this point.
Jonas also discovers the truth behind "releasing." Growing up, the term was used with the Old and with infants. Being released was always a mystery to Jonas, and when he discovers the truth, he discovers he also has the power to make a choice.
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Summary: The Giver, Lois Lowry. Reviewed by:Alison Cole, Monroe Ct
Review: After reading 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry, I was forced to re-think everything i have ever known to be true in life. Jonas, while reaching the age of twelve, is assighned to a job for the rest of his life, along with all the other twelve year olds. Growing up in a set community where all he knows is what he has been told.
His whole life is a lie, but he does not realize that.
After the ceremony in December, Jonas receives a job assignment unlike any other. His friends receive jobs such as Caretaker, and Recreation Director, while he recieves the mysterious job of being the Reciever. This is the start of everything he has ever known beginning to unfold. He is faced with many choices, and decisions that the rest of the community could never even understand. I recommend this book to anyone who is bored with their life, and feel the need for stimulation. This book definatley makes you think, and leaves you with a suprise ending that can be interpreted in many ways.
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Summary: Very Orwellian-insightful and thought provoking.
Review: The Giver related the story of Jonas, a child growing up in a world where "sameness" is the order of the day. All actions, events and behaviors are well defined and regulated by "the leaders". The "leaders" believe they have created a Utopian society of general comfort and well-being, good health and absence of fear. The fact remains, however, that this is nevertheless a human society and there are complications. The basic animal urges of the human species must be managed. There are "communities" beyond this one's border with different practices and customs. There are unforeseen events to be dealt with. There are old technologies and practices that must be avoided to maintain sameness. How to do that is managed through the office of The Receiver of Memory, a lonely and solitary member of the community who has been imprinted with all the historical, emotional and other human "memories" that need to be kept alive (for those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, a scenario definitely not in the game plan for this community). He is a figure of great respect within the community whose role is to use his memories to advise the "leaders' in times of crisis and/or confusion. Jonas' world is turned upside down when he is selected to become the next Receiver of Memory. He not only experiences the pain and grief of all the long forgotten, yet stored memories-grief, starvation, war, hate and so on-but also learns the cruel tradeoffs and the intrinsic hypocrisy that the "leader" engage in to maintain their Utopian society. And as he continues to train, Jonas eventually is faced with a situation that forces him to choose whether he personally can be part of the hypocrisy and deception that maintains that system. A thoughtful, well written, extraordinarily moving story with lovingly created characters, the Giver is a book that can-and will-offer philosophical challenges to readers of any age. One of the best books for younger adolescents I've ever read.
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Summary: suprisingly great
Review: i had to read a few of the anastasia books for a class. i'll be kind and say they were not to good (they [stunk]!!) i was reluctant to read another lowry book after that. is the author of the giver the same lois lowry?? lol of course it is and this book shows her talent as a writer. it's very provocative and quite scary as well. it's a story that sticks with you long after you read it. i loved it. why not 5 stars? i had to take one off because of the torcher the anastasia books put me through. lol
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a great book about a boy named Jonas. Jonas is 11 years old and is growing up in a time where everyone and everything is the same. He lives with his family unit which consists of his mother, his father, his little sister, and himself. When he turns the age of 12 he is assigned a job in the comunity. But he doesn't recieve any ordinary job, he is assinged the Reciever. The Reciever is a job of great wisdom and honor. But when he starts the job he relizes how different the world used to be. Than he is faced with the dicision of wheather or not he wants to do anything about it.
The Giver was a great book just becuase it isn't like anything else. Jonas is in the struggle of his life that leads to much suspence and hard disicion making. I would definetly recomend this book to anyone who likes books that present new ideas and that are very suspenceful.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: An exciting story about a modern Utopia. Would you sacrifice freedom for safety? See how the story unwinds, when Jonas, selected to be the receiver of memory realizes that he lives in a world without feeling. No one will ever know the vibrance his life has taken on. Freedom or safety? You be the judge!
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Summary: I Need Answers!!
Review: Of all books I have read, I strongly feel that this one ranks up in the top three. I feel as though it was a very well written story which, if you think about it, it isn't the easiest topic to write about. Well, at least I can't see how anyone can come up with a story about such an abstract concept as the way that the people in the novel lived. Nonetheless, this novel was written masterfully. The only flaw that I found was at the very end. While I was reading it, I noticed I was running out of pages. However, I was not running out of questions. I feel as though this book really leaves the reader hanging on a lot of questions which, I for one, would have liked to have answered. I actually went to my friend the next day who read it and took his answers to my questions, even though he can not be fully sure if he is correct or not. However, it eased my mind to have at least some sort of answers. Other than the ending, I feel as though this book was really well written and I would recommend it to anyone, young and old, as long as they enjoy reading good books.
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Summary: 'Anthem' for kids
Review: I'll give this book two stars for the fact that the writing wasn't really heinous and its just a warning about conformity. The book really isn't terrible, just cliched. The old horse of 'they had perfect lives, but they did not love' is trotted out once again, and the entire 'supposedly utopian but secretly evil' society that the author crafts is self-indulgent and unconvincing. In short, this is "Look everyone! I'm writing serious material!" work, a dumbed-down 'Anthem'. Yes, it's nicely allegorical, but there are other books that carry off the utopian theme much better, such as '1984', 'Brave New World' or the aforementioned 'Anthem'. It's truly painful to see teenagers learning this in school and taking it as the epitome of Utopian allegory.
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