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Summary: This is a Great book.
Review: I have read this book over and over agian because it will never be old. I read this book in the sixth grade and after we read it i knew i had to get my own copy. It was so good that used to be all i read until i read Lois Lowery's Gathering Blue. In my opinion everyone should own this book. It is the best book i have read and own. I recomend it to anyone.
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Summary: Review for The Giver
Review: I am a fifth grade teacher and read this novel silently during Reading Workshop. Each day, reading workshop would last longer and longer because I was so absorbed in the book. Many of my students inquired about this book while I was reading it during Reading Workshop. I told everyone who asked that it was an absolutely wonderful book; however, I also only recommended the book to those students who had an open mind. The book has some deep topics that might frighten some parents when they find their child is reading this book. However, as a parent, myself, I wouldn't discourage my own child from reading it. I love books that make you think. This is one of those books.
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Summary: The Balance of Emotions
Review: I read The Giver just a few days ago on the recommendation of a friend and found it to be one of the most thought provoking books I have read in years, and I read a lot! Lowry seems to be trying to show, in an extremely artistic way, that in order for an emotion to truly exist, there must be a balancing antithesis. For there to be love, there must be war. To truly experience beauty, you must also know repulsion. Jonas realizes that his family and friends have never truly felt pain or saddness or anger, and that makes him feel extremely alone. This "painfree life" is really nothing but a long gray death.
'The Giver' is a challenge to you and to me, to the whole world, to never forget the memories. They are our responsibility to bear, and to share.
I am 16 years old, an avid reader. I have forgotten more plots than I remember. I pray I will never forget this book.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: Every once in a while, a book comes along that changes the way we look at ourselves and at the world in which we live. The Giver is one of those books. The writing style is deceptively simple; the prose conveys controversial and explosive ideas and issues with incredible clarity. This is truly an incredible book... for readers of all ages.
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Summary: Eternal Gift
Review: I first read this book when I was ten years old and it gave me a whole new world to think about. As I reread it, I'm stunned by the even deeper levels that come across. It's a disquieting, but provoking read. This isn't recommended for general bedtime reading, but it is a wonderful book to share with your child.
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Summary: Pretty Creepy
Review: I read this book with my daughter of 11 and found it to be frightening and kind of a downer. The parts about the young boys budding sexuality was disturbing to me. I realized it was probably my own uncomfortableness about this rather than the fact that my daughter was reading this. She is probably having some of the same thoughts but I'm just not aware of it. I would strongly recommend this book to kids 11 or older. Probably not the best for younger kids.
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Summary: The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Review: In my opinion, The Giver is an excellent book. Why I feel this way is because it opened a whole new world for me, and my seventh grade class. This book made me think of how lucky I am to have things that the characters in the book didn't have. I think that everyone should try to read such a great book like this one to realize that some of us in this world have it good. I like how she made the ending like a fork in the road......you never know what your in for!
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Summary: Extrodinary!
Review: The Giver was one of the best books that I have ever read.I had to read the book for school and at first I thought it would be very boring because normally, school books are. The Giver made me see things in a whole new perspective. Jonas' world is one without weather, feelings, color, animals or diseases. Nobody ever feels pain or experiences bad weather. Jonas realises this when he becomes the receiver of memory. He starts to see the Giver who transfers memories over to Jonas. Memories about color, kittens, Christmas, warefare and more. For the first time, Jonas sees how limited his community is and becomes very angry. He cannot understand why nobody can experience colors or choice. Everything is done for them, including their jobs and who they marry.
Lois Lowry writes the most extrodinary and breathetaking book I have ever read. I urge any and everyone to pick up this amazing book. It will definitely be worth your while.
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Summary: The Giver Review
Review: The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a peaceful community where everything is under control. There are no choices for anyone to make, no sicknesses, no crime, every family is the same and happy that way. But there is one person who holds all these memories that the community doesn't have. This person is The Giver.
When the children of the community become Twelves each december, they are all assigned as Assignment which would become their everyday jobs. Jonas was selected to be the Receiver of Memory. He would work with The Giver and learn that the rest of the world isn't like his community: perfect and peaceful. The Giver holds all the things the community doesn't have, such as: color, love, pain, mountains, sunshine, and many other things. Additionally, Jonas learns that the term, "release" really means murder. After a year of training sessions with The Giver, he and Jonas decide it's time to start letting the rest of the community start feeling the memories. So they come up with a plan. But when a new child that Jonas has come to love is applied to be released, Jonas is forced to leave the community and take the new child with him. You should read this book to find out the ending and what happens to Jonas and the new child.
I recommend this book to everyone because it has a suspensful plot that keeps the reader interested. Also, The Giver has many climaxes that make the book more eventful. I think that not only kids would like this book; adults would enjoy it also. Overall, The Giver by Lois Lowry, was an excellent book with great lessons and I would definetely recomment it to anyone I meet.
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Summary: Literary Devices review
Review: Of the many literary devices employed in Lois Lowry's The Giver, the three that are best displayed are the rising action, climax, and resolution. Although some might say that these areas lack in the novel, it it this lack of explanation of these particular literary devices that makes them so brilliant. The rising action of the book is incredibly exciting. The reader is not sure what is in store for Jonas on his journey. The action is most suspenseful when Jonas is leaving the "utopian" society he has lived in all of his life. As Jonas makes his journey in order to restore the memories of the townspeople, the rising action comes to its highest point. The climax of the story is when Jonas' memories are starting to slip away. This is a great climax because it gives the reader a sense of insecurity and wonder about the coming events. After the climax has ended, the author provides the reader with a resolution that does not really resolve anything. This is because he does not conclude the story in any way, but leaves it hanging for the reader to decide in his/her mind what had happened. The author does not force an opinion on you, but instead lets the reader make an important decision about the resolution. Although the author does lead you in a particular direction about what has happened, it is up to the reader to make out the details, and this is why the literary device is used so well. Without the wonderful use of these three devices, this story would not have as great an impact on the reader.
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