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Summary: Review The Giver
Review: I picked the story The Giver because it was challenging to me.It
would talk about how they were controlled in ways that were not
fair. Yet, I still liked the book because it developed mood,
chacter, and setting .I also picked The Giver because of the tittle .It even gave me a sense it was good .I reconmed that you
read it!
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Summary: please help
Review: i liked the book i liked the book i liked the book i liked the book
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Summary: A wonderful, thoughtful read
Review: Jonas lives in a "perfect" world where war, disease, and suffering have all been eradicated. Everything is in order; everything is under control. The people have no worries or cares. The Community strives for "sameness," in which everyone and everything are the same and equal. To help the Community function as a cohesive unit, each member is assigned a position in society. When Jonas turns twelve, the Community selects him to be the new "Receiver of Memories." Only the "Giver" knows the truth and memories of the past, and now he must pass these memories on to Jonas.
The Giver is a wonderful book. Lois Lowry skillfully crafted an intriguing and profoundly thoughtful story. She subtly creates an uneasy feeling that something is wrong with this "perfect world." The Community's advisors intend to establish security within utopian society, but they really establish a stifling dystopia. To protect people from the risks of making poor or wrong decisions in life, the advisors plan and dictate the lives of the people. In effect, the citizens have no freedom of choice; they do not choose their job or even their spouse. Moreover, the advisors inhibit the people's ability to feel because they want to spare them from the hardships and pain of life. For instance, individuals must take a pill everyday, which suppresses passionate feelings. The citizens do not know or experience true emotions like love. One of the goals of the Community is to achieve "sameness" so that no one feels embarrassed or gets excluded for being different. However, this limits individuality and freedom of expression because everyone conforms to a certain desired image. Finally, to relieve the population of the horrors and devastation of the world and the past, the advisors isolate the Community from the rest of the world (also known as "Elsewhere) and give the burden of holding the memories of the past to a single member of society: the "Receiver." Therefore, the Community lives only in the present, and the people have a narrow perspective of life because they only know their community and way of life. They are naive; they do not gain knowledge or wisdom from the memories. While receiving the memories, Jonas learns a different and better way to live and realizes what he and the Community have been missing. He decides that something must be done to change the current conditions and enlighten his community.Although it is a Newbery Award Winner, The Giver is a controversial book that has been challenged and even banned. After parents complained that the violent and sexual passages were inappropriate for children, the Bonita Unified School District in California temporarily banned the novel from classes. The Giver has been challenged in other school districts around the country for its "mature themes" of euthanasia, infanticide, and suicide. I do not agree with banning and challenging of this novel. It is a great book, and part of what makes it so great is the incorporation of these controversial issues. They force readers to wrestle with their own thoughts and figure out their stance on the issues. Good literature makes readers think. Banning this book takes away the freedom of speech, the freedom to read, and the freedom to learn and explore. The banning of The Giver is ironically similar to the actions of the Community that lead the Community to its suppressive and stifling state. A powerful story, The Giver keeps readers in suspense, touches them, and stays with them for a long time. I love this book, and I encourage everyone to read it.
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Summary: A Really Good Book
Review: I thought "The Giver" by Luis Lowry was a good book. It's about a place where there is no pain, joy, or any other feelings and your whole life is 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 doesn't want to live there anymore. So he tries to find a way to escape into the real world but its never been done before where he lives.
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Summary: Why Banned??
Review: The Giver
By Lois 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 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. No one else besides the Receiver knows a thing about the past,. It is a huge burden to bear. The Giver, the old Receiver, and Jonas, the young, new Receiver have decided that it is time to release memories to the rest of the community.
Through this book, Lois Lowry warns against the dangers of losing our rights of basic freedom. This book has been banned because of the references to euthanasia, infanticide, and violence and sexuality, but I feel that this book is appropriate for the age group to which it was directed. The issues that this book reveals are very real in today's times and today's children are the ones who need to learn how to deal with these topics. I feel that she did a favor for the society of the future by introducing young readers to these topics that could very possibly get out of hand if not dealt with.
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Summary: Review of The Giver
Review: The Giver was a wonderful book. It was very adventurous and made the reader feel as if he was on the journey to individual freedom with Jonas. It made the reader appreciate diversity and understand why people must have differences. This book would be great for junior high aged students. The book could be used as a meaningful way to discuss a number of our society's issues.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver, by Lois Lowry is a book of difference not sameness. The young reader will be intrigued by the many differences of this book. This book explores love, friendship, and differences, most things that teens experience in their every day life. This book was well written and was liked because of the... and wierd feeling of Jonas' world. This book recieves a 4 out of 5 stars. A very fine and well written book.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: Giver Review The Giver by Lois Lowry is a terrible book. It is interesting for about the first four or five chapters but then is very boring. This book is not worth your time to read. It is a very distinct and interesting topic but I think the book could have a different storyline to make it interesting. For some cultures, this community might not seem so farfetched. This book receives a half star out of four. It is a book not worth reading.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: I recomend the book the Giver by Lois Lowry to 12 year olds. This book is good because it is different from our world. There world is so painless and not exciting. The community doesn't have to choice anything. Everthing there is under control. Jonas, almost a 12, is starting to train for the new Reciever and is trained by the Giver. The Giver has memories of the true world and of the past. Jonas experiences new things that he never knew.
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Summary: Intriguing Book
Review: I recommend this book because the author, Lois Lowry, wrote it with great detail describing everything and putting a picture in your head. The book is about a boy named Jonas, he is 11 3/4 years old. In the place he lives, his community has a ceremony for when you become twelve. You get assigned a permanent job that you have to keep. Jonas is worried about what job he will get and none of the jobs seem quite right for him. The only bad part of the book is the ending seems sped up and rushed, but overall the book is a good book.
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