Rating: 
Summary: An excellent read!!
Review: The Giver Imagine living in a world where someone else is controlling your life. Those people make important life decisions like whom you will marry and what your career will be. This is what Jonas's life is like. He lives in a perfect world where there is no hurt or fear. Jonas figures his life is good, until he receives his lifetime assignment and his eyes are opened to all of the things he has been missing out on.
The village elders control everything in the community where Jonas lives. When Jonas turns twelve he is given his life assignment as the next receiver of memory. The present receiver is Jonas's teacher and trains him by giving Jonas memories.
Through his training Jonas learns about things like colors, choices, love, hate, and war. These things didn't happen where he lived because they were thought to be dangerous. Jonas's job is to remember lessons of the past when people made their own choices. The Giver shows Jonas people in the past making bad choices that lead to hate and war. However, he also shared happy memories of people making good choices that led to things like love. Jonas is angered that his world cannot have these things. He wants to live in his own world where he can make his own choices.
This book reads quickly but is very well written. Lois Lowry did an incredible job of showing us what a "perfect" world would be like and makes you realize that you would never want to live in one.
Rating: 
Summary: For Readers12 and under Only
Review: Written at a 6th grade reading level, The Giver has very little literary or stylistic value. It is filled with cliched rhetoric such as "intelligence" "integrity", "courage", and "wisdom" -- words fit for a middle school graduation. Lowry creates a futuristic world that seems too much like a follow up of Orwell's *1984*, and is really a very bland version of *Brave New World*. The themes and ideas can hardly be called original. Though for a children's book, it is quite valuable in its effective warning against modern society's trend toward regimentation and sterilization. As for anyone over 12 years of age, read Brave New World if you want intellectual stimulation.
Rating:
Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was a great book. I enjoyed it very much, even though I thought it was a little weird. I couldn't quite grasp the concept, but about 9 pages into the book I completely got the book. I gave it 5 stars because of the imagery, the concept of the city, and the total realization of this place that it was almost real like I could just touch it. As reading the book I was kind of thrown off the subject I could not understand what was happening. Jonas to me seemed different from all the other people in the book. Like he had some kind of special power over the others. When I reached the part about the "Giver" or boss I completely understood what Jonas was to do. I could never imagine live in a place where you couldn't be free to think and do. Where you where told what you where to for the rest of your life. The concept of this book was so surreal that you can picture it happening and you can create the scene inside to your head. Jonas didn't like the way things were being run. When he finally understood what was happening, like for example when he finally saw what being "released" meant when his father killed the other twin or how you had to apply for a child. When he came to harsh reality that the game he often par took in was actually a sing of war and the other kids didn't know what was happening, but Jonas knew what pain was and told them to stop. Over all the book was very well written and I wish they would make a squel.
Rating:
Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was an excellent by literary standards and engaging storyline. The story of seclude community that has controlled actions of all the citizens. Everyone is assigned a job at the "Ceremony of Twelve" and from there families are put together and babies are given to you. One boy, Jonas, becomes the chosen to receive memories. From there on, the story goes into a detail what the community has given up to avoid the past memoirs of their humanity. This book to me was interesting from the start. I was really disappointed that the book ended so fast. Still, this book is a must read.
Rating:
Summary: The Giver, by Lois Lowry
Review: I think that The Giver, by Lois Lowry was a very good book. It showed society through the eyes of an adolescent boy who felt different from everybody else. This novel is particularly well-written in that it shows if someone feels different from society, they do not have to try to change. In The Giver, Jonas does not agree with the rest of society's views, and that is okay. Jonas does not change his personal morals and opinion, which takes great strength but is shown to be worth it in the end. Staying true to one's own beliefs is a very important lesson that is taught through this book.
Rating: 
Summary: Memories...
Review: Lois Lowry's The Giver at first strikes the reader as the ideal and utopian society, however it is quickly turned around to show how monotone the life is. I myself am still half and half on this book because it seemed to be lacking something. At some points in the later chapters in particular it seemed to be rushed through which detracted from the book. That is why I've given it 4 stars, it was able to hold my attention for the entire book, but it seemed to be lacking that crucial element to be even better.
Rating:
Summary: Depth at a pre-teen level....
Review: I first read "The Giver" when I was in the 6th grade (I'm now a senior in High School) and the book only gets better every time I read it. I have read many other books concerning the issue of ideal and Utopian societies. These books are very deep and often disturbing. "The Giver" touches on these issues but in a very chilish and delicate manner which makes it perfect for young children to read. It mildly exposes them to the idea that society cannot be perfect and that the more perfection a government strives for, the less privelaged its citizens become. I can personally say that "The Giver" gave me my first real sense of pride in my country and the rights and liberties it grants me simply for living on its grounds. The story also provoked my first thoughts of appreciation of life in general. Although my senses of pride and appreciation have grown much more since the 6th grade, "The Giver" was a thought-provoking and inspirational introduction to the adult world I was soon to face. It is, by far, one of my favorite novellas ever (and I have read many). I would highly reccommend it to anyone.
Rating:
Summary: A very mysterious and new kind of book
Review: ... The giver, a very mysterious and new kind of book, did not sounded interesting because of its simple title. Instead of boring, I found it to be very interesting. I did like it more than the books I have read in school like A Separate Peace or Great Expectation. This book was different from the others; it was a mysterious and fantasized book. I love books that are out of the ordinary. For instance, the part where they said that people were being release. I did not know where they were going. That made me want to read it and find out. Another part was when the 12th years got their job assigned to them. It was intense because Jonas number was skipped. The other part that got me going was what was the name of the girl before Jonas that was Receiver. All this and more in this exciting novel. I do not want to give away the ending, but anyone who picks up this book cannot stop reading it.
I give this book a 4 because it is the best of the books I have read for an English class.
Rating:
Summary: An odd ending
Review: It was a wonderful book. I found it very enjoyable but also very suprising. To chose Sameness over Diversity and black and white over color. What a world to live in. Reading this book makes you look at the world you see everyday in a new light and think of what it might be like without color or hills or real emotions.
Rating:
Summary: The Giver - C.R. - Ft. Loramie
Review: As I was reading this book, I was utterly amazed at the setting in which it took place. I could never imagine such a world where no one sees colors or feels any emotions. If I would have been in Jonas's shoes, I think I would have gone crazy. I also feel the book was well written, the imagery and the plot of the story go so well together. Perhaps my favorite part was when Jonas decided to keep giving Gabriel memories so he could sleep well at night, I admire Jonas's character, and I am even trying to be like him in some ways. Overall, this is excellent reading material!
| 
