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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a very fascinating book. Lois Lowry creats a very well thought out community without anything that the citicenz can do or think about negative. Everthing has to be preciece and perfect. When they have a proble they go to the Reciever who holds all of the memories of the past and Joanas unsespectdedly is chosen to be the new Reciever after the Giver's Daughter Rosemary the previous reciever is released.Release is a whole other story, once Joanas finds out what release is by his father releasing a twin that was only 2 onces less than his brother. Joanas takes Gabriel (mabey his brother) and his memories he goes to another community or sies getting their. TWO THUMBS UP.
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Summary: Intriguing and Threatening
Review: I've read The Giver twice, once as a confused fifth grade student and recently as part of an online class assignment as a high school Junior. This book never fails to entertain my senses and keep me clutching on to its paperback until I finish the very last page. It's an amazingly artful weaving of words that keeps the attention of all its readers, young and old. It's intriguing to try to fathom a world in which there is no yesterday. This is a world where social classing is non existent. Each and every individual of this community has the same house, the same size family, the same hair style and clothing. If that is not challenging enough, imagine a life built on ignorance rather than past experience and knowledge. A life without memory, without pain, without feeling whatsoever. The story centers on Jonas, on the brink of turning twelve at the beginning of the novel, in a utopian society. Jonas is chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory for the colony. Jonas, and those Receivers before him, stores the collective memories of those things which their society has managed to forget over the time they've been apart from the rest of the world. Jonas's then can see his world as it really is. This is definitely a thought provoking tale and full of twists and turns. Highly recommended!
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Summary: A Mezmerizing Utopian Adventure!
Review: The Giver is a mesmerizing work of utopian science fiction, which presents an unmistakable emphasis on the necessity of a diverse society. This is no mere sci-fi thrill ride. The Giver is packed tightly on every page with human morality and thought provoking questions. The world Lowry has created eerily mimics the world we know today, with more than a hint of surrealism tossed in tastefully. After the first chapter (which is deceptively slow) the reader is irrevocably riveted to this page-turner, unable to abandon it until it has been read from cover to cover. However, the adventure does not end at the closing paragraph. One is left with so much to ponder after reading this powerful work of literature that it is sure to stick with the reader long after it has been polished off. Deep and original, The giver is an amazing book for nearly any age.
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Summary: Incredible
Review: I found this to be truly incredible book. It is able to display effectively why individuality should be celebrated and how a society that encourages sameness will only force it's members to a sort of pointless existence. It also gives a rather meaningful life lesson. That without feeling the true pain and anguish that life has to offer, you cannot feel the full extent of its love and happiness either. It offers a sense of extremes that everyone is meant to meet and deal with in order to fully appreciate what they have. Without that balance between the very bad in our lives and the very good, we lead a mundane existence, because we don't know how to truly know emotion and live.
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Summary: The choices we make
Review: This book is excellent. It explores the futuristic society in which twelve year old Jonas lives. The story is an eye opening experience. It will make you realize just how many choices you do have. The book overall is very good. It is full of symbols, but definetly not over complicated. The ending of the book is very unclear. The book leaves you to pick your own interpretation. Which can be good if you like that. I personally like the ending to be decisive. I want to know what happens to the characters.
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Summary: The best at its genre...
Review: This book is probably one of the best in its genre. It provides such an amazing storyline and settings of a perfect society but with no feelings, memories, differences, or even colors. The society was erased of memories, feelings, differences, and colors to ensure an society of no crimes, dangers, and horrors. A society where everyone shall come together as one with no complaint, worries, or facing any problems/dangers. But this wasn't the right society, the way of life the world was built up to be. To have peace is to have war, to have good is to have evil, and to be happy is to be sad. The world can't be perfect without mistakes to allow the term of perfection occurs. Jonas, a boy born different than others and who was able to see the world with colors, saw the same purpose. At the age of 12, where kids of age 12 must be sent off to jobs, he was sent to The Giver... And the story of the true perfect human, Jonas, begins...
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Summary: Wonderful Book!
Review: This is a wonderful book for all ages. THE GIVER provides a startling example of the importance of shared experiences and the impossibilty of utopian societies. The concept of opposites not existing without the other is also explored in THE GIVER, when pain cannot be eradicated without also eradicating pleasure. Lois Lowry has created a beautifully written book that you will think about for days after reading it.
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Summary: The giver
Review: The Giver This novel written by Louis Lowry, shows how people could live, if they didn't have their individual characteristics as people. This book tells us of a world where no one has color, no one raises their own children and no one has anything special about them except the Giver. The Giver is the one being that holds all the wonderful and happy thought outside of this community. But he also holds the reality of the so-called "REAL WORLD". This is a great book, it demonstrates how our world would be if we didn't not have freedom to express ourselves. Jonah Breaks this ongoing circle by running away, and not choosing to accept his new position as the giver.
This novel contains Irony in a way that it does not tell you the exact meaning, but you have to attempt to translate it yourself. It gives you the hard evidence but in the book you have to think and explore your imagination to get the full meaning. The Theme of this book is to look outside of the box. Don't judge people for being themselves or for being unique, because without that what is the world other then nothingness.
The Tone of this book is sad but in a way you can rejoice about the way Jonah starts to think. There are many different times in the book when Jonah is confused and doesn't know what to do but he always makes it through until his death. Even in his death he finds a peace though. He learns a lesson and teaches one as well.
I would recommend this book to anyone that feels that they don't fit along with everyone else. It might change the way you think of your self and the confidence you have for yourself.
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Summary: "The Giver" book review
Review: If I didn't have to read this book for a class I would have read three pages and put it back on the shelf. After reading it and and understanding the message the author was trying to send I realized that the book was a nice little bit of literature. It put across to me that all of the little differences in the world should be celebrated, not shunned. All of the little things in life aren't appreciated, and I think Lois Lawry is trying to tell us to wake up and look around at all of the beauty in our world before we destroy it.
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Summary: An amazing world of fantasy (VHS class)
Review: Looking for a quick read that you just cannot put down? Well sit back and prepare to be emerged into another amazing world of fantasy. Author Lois Lowry has created a place in our hearts and in time where conformity and sameness rules all. Welcome to a world where you can not choose anything, not even your spouse or your job. To a place where strong emotions, like tears, anger, pain, and even love, are kept from you. Imagine living in such a place, not knowing anything about the way we live now. Then, imagine receiving all of the knowledge: of war, of peace, of pain, of hunger, of love. The Giver takes you inside a life like this. You follow a young boy through all the pains and joys of our own lives, learning and growing along side him. This magical fantasy is ridiculously thought-provoking. Prepare to open your mind to new possibilities, to ask yourself: "what if?" This most enjoyable book will leave you with heart-warming experiences and a story you can play out in your own mind. I strongly suggest this book to those with great imaginations and those who are ready to be captured into a solemn truth of growing up and entering an entirely new world.
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