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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver, by Lois Lowry, was a very interesting and eerie book. It's about a boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect world. Nobody ever is upset, nothing ever dramatically changes, and nobody cares or realizes the one thing everybody is missing: memories. Jonas, apprehensive about the coming December that brings new changes, doesn't know what his assigned role in the community will be. But when the day comes, he is selected to be the Receiver of Memory. The Giver, who brings a whole new light to Jonas from the past, alone holds the pain, joy, and sorrow of the world in the past. Wanting to change, Jonas does one thing that could change the community forever.
I enjoyed this book because of the alarming things being discovered about the community that Jonas lives in. The feelings Jonas discovered that he had never had before were the very things that changed his community. I disliked the fact that everyone was constantly apologizing in order to not break the rules. But overall this book was very good and had not a lot of action, but a lot of emotional feelings.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry is a good book. It's about a boy named Jonas and his community. His fater is a nurturer and his mother works in the department laws an justice. He has a sister named Lilly. His friends are Fiona and Asher. One of the babies his father nurters is Gabriel. The book is about Jonas's assignment at the ceremony of 12. They have ceremonies in the community for every age up to and encluding 12. They are held on 2 days in December. At the ceremony of 12 all the 12s get an assignment (job) then start their training. Jonas wasn't assigned, he was selected. He was selected to be the new reciever of memories. I think the Giver is a good book I like the story. One thing I don't like (and maybe you won't either) is the ending. She doesn't really tell you what happened. Theres a few different was you can take it.I don't like endings like that.
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Summary: The Giver Review
Review: The Giver, by Lois Lowry is a very boring book.The characters are very polite and appoligize way too much. The setting is very boring because it has no color.
In this book the character Jonas is chosen to the Reciever of Memories.He dosen't like the fact that him and The Giver are the only ones who can feel pain.At the end of the book |Jonas makes a big decision.
I feel that this book was very boring and has no action. I also thought this book was too long, but I like short books. This book has 180 pages. I didn't like this book because not everyone can feel pain.The part I disliked the most was when Jonas made his big decision at the end. I feel the author could have made his decision seem even bigger.I would have liked this better if Jonas would have shown more pain. I don't request this book to anyone.
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Summary: The Giver is a great book
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry is a very exciting book. Some of the characters are Mother, who is in the departmant o justace, Fateher who is in a nurturer, a person who takes care of the newborn children, and Lilly who is Jonas's sister. All of those characters are in Jonas's family unit, but the more important characters are Gabe who is an enjoyable newborn child, The Giver who is older, kind and smart, and Jonas. Jonas is the main character in The Giver and seems to be very brave and heroic.
The Community that Jonas lives in is very safe, the same, and orderly, with no contact to the world outside of the community's walls. Everyone's life is chosen for them, their family unit, name, job, and absolutly everything else.
On the day that they get their jobs, Jonas is chosen as the reciever of memory. The Giver shows him things that he never kew existed, and cannot talk to anyone about them except The Giver. Soon Jonas makes a big decision to help the Community.
I enjoyed The Giver alot. It has many exciting lines in it such as 'He killed it. My father killed it!'. Another reason I loved this book is because it had many descriptive feelings in it such as 'Apprehensive, Jonas decided, that's what I am.'. One more reason I enjoyed this book is that I had the same feelings jonas had. I felt as if I were Jonas. I highly recoment this book to anyoe. You are garenteed a great book.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: At the beginning of The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas, one of the main characters, and an eleven feels apprehensive on page one. The other main characters are the Giver who is the Reciever of Memory, and Gabriel who is a newborn and is having trouble sleeping in the nurturing center. The setting is somewhat plain, colorless, and sameness meaning no one but the reciever of memory has books, no one has individual birthdays, and everyone sees black and white except for the reciever of memory and the reciever in training. At the beginning of the book Jonas feels apprehensive due to the age ceremony, he gets selected for the reciever of memory and later on doesn't like his community or his father. Here is one of the sentences in the story,"The daily training continued and now it always included pain." I highly recommend that you read this book for three reasons. Lois Lowry fills minds with interesting facts. She makes it interesting. And she makes you want to read on. (...). The main theme of this book is that sameness is not important.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: "The Giver" by Lois Lowry is a very good book. It takes place in a very proper community with no color. Jonas who is just about to receive his job is a person who wants change in the community. When Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of memory (A very high honor) he has to learn from the Giver. Now that Jonas is able to see color see is to learn what no one else has. In this book there are many good and bad points. Like at the beginning it is somewhat boring and dull. While at other times like at the end it is very exciting to read. All in All this is a great book and I would suggest it to anyone over 10.
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Summary: 'The Giver' Review
Review: The Giver is a very good book. Jonas, a young boy, lives in a perfect community. He has never known colors, felt fear or love. In December, his life changes.
At the ceremony of Twelve, he is selected to recieve the memories of pain and joy. The Giver transmitts the memories by placing his hands on Jonas' back.
Some memories are painful. 'They have never known pain,' He thought. He's overwhelmed with responsiblity. 'But you suffer all the time.' When he becomes so stressed, he runs away with Gabriel, a Newchild. As he rides down the hill with the sled, memories of joy and love come to him. The end is ambiguous, leaving the reader to decide Jonas and Gabe's fate.
The Giver is a Newberry Medal winner. It's a, "One more chapter!" book. If you read The Giver, you will be glad you did.
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Summary: Pain in "The Giver"
Review: I thought that one of the most interesting elements in "The Giver" was the way in which the Giver introduced Jonas to pain. Lowry clearly distinguishes between types and degrees of pain. The first pain that Jonas experiences is the physical pain associated with sunburn. Jonas tells the Giver that he understands pain after feeling his skin burn. The Giver wisely tells Jonas that there are memories he must give Jonas that would be far more painful. Shortly thereafter, Jonas finds the Giver in anguish and asks if he can do anything to help. The Giver asks Jonas to relieve some of his burden by taking a war memory from the Giver. Jonas lies on the couch and finds himself in the midst of a post-battle scene. Jonas sees and hears a dying man, bloody and thirsty, asking for water. Next he hears the moans of all of the men around him, some crying for death, some for mommy. Jonas could never have imagined such a painful place. The community in which Jonas grew up not only prohibited such pain, it made it utterly impossible for its citizens to comprehend or feel such pain. Jonas experiences physical pain in the sunburn and later in the novel when he experiences, contrary to the prophecy of an adult earlier in Jonas' life, actual starvation. He experiences emotional pain in the transmitted memory of war, in the inability to be understood by his friends, and in the betrayal he felt when he learned of the underlying lies that were being used in the community he had grown up in without questioning. I rate this a 4-star book because I believe it is definitely better than average, it contains interesting ideas and concepts, and it deals with important and mature issues in a way that is accessable to a relatively young audience. I would have liked to read about what the effects of his "stirrings" had been. I also would have liked to gain some closure. The book ends in a way that leaves me wanting to hear more about "what happens." I respect the fact that Lowry leaves me to use my own mind to think about what would have happened and why. I only hope that Jonas didn't end up getting released.
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Summary: Utopia or Hell?
Review: This book is about a seemingly utopian society. It is written about the future. In the community that Jonas lives in, no one experiences things like pain, urges, color, and weather. The community has very specific rules and even decides who a person will marry and what job they will have. Jonas grows up in a normal family with a mom, dad, and younger sister. He is different from the other children his age and is given the assignment of "Receiver of Memory". After receiving memories, Jonas finally begins to understand what people in his community were really missing.
Lowis Lowry uses this book to show the readers that in order to understand how wonderful things are, they must experience the not so wonderful side of things. Jonas had to learn this the hard way by being the only one who received the memories. Jonas begins to realize that there are other places out there beyond his community. Jonas has to decide what to do with the memories he receives. Should he stay or leave his community? Read the book to find out what Jonas does?
This book is motivating to children and easy to read. Some of the concepts are almost unimaginable compared to our lives, but the author uses vivid word descriptions to help the reader understand. It also teaches that children can make a difference in this world. Most importantly it teaches that people have to experience the bad to appreciate the good. People must be able to reflect on their past and their memories in order to move forward in the world.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a great book for everyone. It also has a nice imagination for readers. This book is mostly about a unusual theory that the author, Lois Lowry, has about the future. It also teaches a great lesson of growing up and beleiving in what you think is right. After reading this book you will also have a great imagination about your future!
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