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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was a spectacular book! I read it at school for
the academically gifted program. Usually the books are extremely boring to me. This book was so awsome that I am asking for it for my birthday. I cannot wait to read it again. It is about a world totally different from ours everything is supposively perfect but when you dont have any feelings or memories it isnt as good as our world if you really think our world has alot of problems their world doesnt. From day to day their world is perfectly fine but they are just there with no feelings or memories! When you start the book it grabs you and reels you in you can not stop reading it. I loved this book and I rate it with five stars because of the fact that it is so great! It really deserves more than five stars!
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Summary: Jason Barcus's review of The Giver
Review: This book is an interesting story. It is called The Giver.Although
I don't like to read, this story is great for anyone who likes to
read. I do recimend this book The Giver.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Newberry Award winning novel The Giver, by lois Lowry, is an odd yet exiting book. It takes place in the future where everything is the same. There is no color. There is no music. There is a rule for everything. There are no families. The temperature is always the same and you don't get to pick what you want to do in life. The main character's name is Jonas. In the community when you turn twelve, you are assigned a job. When it was Jonas turn, they gave him the job of "Receiver". The last apprentice failed the job ten years ago. The Receiver's job is to receive the community's memories from the Giver. He gets some memories that are good and lots that are bad. Jonas finds out that children that aren't perfect are "released". One day his father brought home a baby boy who is was going to be released. His name was Gabriel. Jonas decides to run away from the community with the baby. He runs to a place in the world where everything isn't controlled, and decides he wants to stay there. He realizes that imperfection and beauty are more important than perfection and a world that is gray.
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Summary: Imagination!
Review: The Giver was an excellent book that would inspire one's imagination into the limitless number of memories and feelings the main characters in the book embark upon. while some of the issues discussed may not be appropriate for all readers I did not personally find any of the concepts offensive. In addition, this was a great coming of age book that I would personnally recomend to all your young-adult readers.
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Summary: One of Lois Lowry's best of all time
Review: This book is GREAT! I didnt want to stop reading it.The suspense is unbearable. I've told all of my friends about this great book and they enjoy it too.
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Summary: The Giver By: Kathy Bondurant and
Review: The Giver takes place in a society, that at first, seems perfect. It seems to be free from crime or societal problems. This however, leads to no freedom to make personal decisions or experience true freedom. This novels main character is Jonas and centers around his coming of age at twelve years old. At the magic age of twelve his society decides what his career and purpose in life is going to be. His discovery into his assigned job as "the giver" is one that is troubling and leads him to search outside of his community to find a better life. Follow Jonas as he learns of the true problems of his community and how maybe the grass is greener on the other side of the mountain. We recommend this book for children at least 13 years or older due to some of the life and death aspects of this story.
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Summary: Unjust Accusations
Review: The Giver
By Louis Lowry The Giver is about a future society where everything has gone to sameness. The weather, colors, and daily routine are the same for everybody in the community every single day. The government has done this in order to create a "perfect" life for everyone. They have completely eliminated choices! The only problem is that they have to store the memories with one person. Not one other person knows a thing about the past. There are no memories for anyone, happy or sad, except for the Receiver. It is a huge burden to bear. The Giver, the old Receiver, and the Receiver have decided it is time to release memories to the rest of the community.
Louis Lowry really warns against the dangers of losing our rights of basic freedom. The author is definitely one for freedom of choice. This book was banned because of the references to euthanasia, infanticide, and violent and sexual passages. I feel that this book is appropriate for the age group to which it was directed. These are real issues in today's times and today's children are the ones who will deal with these topics the most. I feel that she did a favor towards the future's society by introducing the youth to these topics that could very possibly get out of hand if not dealt with.
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Summary: A very good book to read.
Review: I write this review short after I finished the book. I found it very good, because of the "Utopic" society the Community is. It makes you to examine your mind. Buy, do not mind the 1 star reviews. If you didn't liked it, it is because this kind of book does not appeal you, or you are not open-minded. And one thing, I'm thirteen years old.
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Summary: Absoultely Spellbinding
Review: One of the few books that I can ever read past the first few chapters, Lois Lowry's "The Giver" has easily made its way into one of my favorite books. It's amazing how many only 170 some odd pages can work on so many levels- emotionally, socially, politically- and still pull it off. Lowry perfectly brings a coming-of-age boy (Jonas) forced to live in a seemingly "perfect" community into receiving the truth about the past, a past where pain existed, a past where feelings existed. Jonas' own naivete towards the world is the most interesting part of the book; watching him come to his own revelations about the very society he lives in, and the pure simplicity of his convictions: "But we SHOULD have choices!" Lowry leaves a lot of the book open for you to fill in the structure- she never really explains the whole concept of why people moved to "Sameness," and I really think that's for the best. I think it gives the message that maybe we really aren't made for perfection- because, perhaps, beauty comes in imperfection. A classic.
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Summary: A Really Good Book
Review: I thought "The Giver" by Lois Lowry was a good book. It's about a place where there is no pain, joy, or any other feelings and your whole life in decided for you. There is a boy named Jonas that gets chosen at the age of 12 to be the receiver of all the memories. But when he receives the memories he decides he doesn't like it and doesn't want to live there anymore. So he tries to find a way to escape into the real world but it's never been done before where he lives.
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