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Summary: Enter a Strange New World
Review: Imagine a community of perfection. Everyone is completely equal. Everyone has the same opportunity. There are no colors, no differences, no changes, no choices. Life is "ideal". But, as Jonas, the main character of the novel, soon discovers, life in his protected and controlled little community is far from ideal. Good for young readers.
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Summary: This book was fantastic!!!!!
Review: This book was really great because it showed me a whole new world of rules. I also liked it because it had a totally new way of life in it. I just couldn't put it down. Read it and you will find that it is great.
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Summary: A review by a twelve year old from Wells Junior High
Review: I thought the giver was a great book. It was neatly written, and had a nice plot. It seemed that there was always something interesting happening, that made me want to read it more and more. The one part I thought that could change to make it better, was that the giver could be something cooler, that could capture everyone's attention. The one part I didn't like, was when I finished the book, because I didn't have anymore good books to read.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: This book was one of the best I've ever read. It's about a "perfect" community with no pain, loss, love, or colors. A boy is selected to hold all of the memories of the pain, loss, love etc. instead of having the community be burndened with it all. The boy goes on a hard journey to save the community but he won't ever be able to come back to his family. It was definately worth reading!
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Summary: One good book to read
Review: This is a really interesting book. It makes think about life.
I didn't like to read much until I read The Giver. This is one of the best books for a kid to read. If you don't like to read, like me,I recommend this book.
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Summary: Horrible, horrible book - NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!
Review: This book is awful. The author, Lois Lowry, is gifted, and what others have written about her writing is true - she is good at conveying degrees of pain and pleasure, astounding at introducing a concept as if the reader has never come across it before (color, music, etc.). The problem is Lowry's agenda, maybe only one an adult could see. The deep dark secret of Jonas' community is euthanasia - unwanted or unfeasible babies and the extremely aged and fragile are injected with death-inducing drugs. This seems to be a veiled attempt to poison the impressionable reader against abortion and the right-to-die, by playing on his/her emotions - Jonas is so stunned by what he sees his "father" do to a baby that he refuses to go home, and runs away from the community. (...)
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Summary: a review on "The Giver"
Review: "The Giver" tells of a boy-Jonas-who has to go through life of sameness. Everything was normal for Jonas until he was given the job of "receiver" and is pulled from the life he once lived. The story tells of Jonas and his new life, and how he realizes that there is more in life than he was taught to know. Jonas will have to learn about the real world and is given help from the "giver".The Giver was a great book that taught me that not everyone is perfect; and even though you are supposedly to be living in a perfect community, nothing is still perfect. This book made me think of the world around me. It also made me think about my life and the people around me. This book also taught me that if you try hard enough, you could over come anything. I recommend this book to anyone 10-years or older.
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Summary: An amazing work
Review: I first read this book in fifth or sixth grade, and it was an amazing introduction into more evolved ways of thinking and more abstract concepts. It challenges conformity and conservatism even in our own society, but its focus is on this utopian society and the character of Jonas. It's beautifully, sensitively written, and I enjoy it even today. This is a great read for middle and high school students because it challenges their ways of thinking and introduces what seem (to middle schoolers) to be lofty concepts. Excellent novel.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: I thought that The Giver was a realy good book but I thought it had a bad ending. I think Lois Lowry should write a sequal. Saying what hapened when he got to Eleswhere.You know pick up where he left of. He was riding down the sled and he could see and here Eleswhere when all the sudden the book stopped and ended. The book was so eciting and interesting that I could not put it down I wonted to read more and more. There was something new and ecciting on every page. Even though I thought The Giver had a bad ending I am still looking forward to reading more of his books I just hope they have a better ending!!!!!!!! Sincerley,
Your BIGGEST fan
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Summary: The Giver
Review: At Northside Elementry in Ms.Merediths 6th grade class we read the book called "The Giver".It was a very confusing but fun and an interesting book to read for a novel.I would recommend this book to people that were at least 11 and up.It was a really good book, because it talks about another community and everything is different their than it is in real life, their is no color in the comunity. In every family their has to be two kids Female and male and a mom and dad. The elders of the comunity choose your job when you turn 12 years old. They have Certain age groups like the 6's and their birthday can be on a certain day but that group would all turn the same age at the same time. You should read this book. Cesily T.
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