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Summary: Read the worrying future
Review: I think "The Giver is a very good book which touches the worries we have - that one day there will perhaps be a planned society by gen manipulation. And it shows that we don't want that but we want to make decisions and be various.
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Summary: Secrets
Review: I think "The Giver" is a story which throws you into the action at the beginning and leaves questions behind at the end ,so it's quite exciting. The community and all the people living inside it are cut off from the world we would today call reality. Readind from chapter to chapter, you will learn all about the secrets of the community, step by step, and finally there will be a big surprise.
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Summary: Comment by us
Review: The Book "The Giver" plays in the future. There is a community which is ruled by a Receiver and some elders who tells the inhabitants what to do. One of these inhabitants is Jonas who is selected to take over the most important job in the community. I didn't like the book very much because I don't like such unreal stories. I think the author wrote too much unrealistic things, for example I can't understand why the community has developed into what they are in the story. Many things that are part of over our lives were abolished (also all dangers) and I can't quite understand why...Metal Rulez !!!
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Summary: The Giver -Review-
Review: I think I like the book. It's an extraordinary story about a boy called Jonas who lives in an imaginary future world. One day he experiences what life really means and what makes it worth living, so Jonas makes an important decision with far-reaching consequences for the community and himself. When I read the first few pages I didn't even expect what direction the story may take. I thought it was a lovestory as Jonas seems to have an eye on his friend Fiona. Maybe it was a story about friendship or just a simple fantasy-story. I was really surprised and of course very excited when, step by step, the story was revealed to me.
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Summary: The Giver........quite nice...
Review: hi! The world of "The Giver" seems to be perfect, until Jonas discovers its dark secrets: The community isn't what it looks like: the people have been genetically manipulated. Lois lowry's novel can be seen as a foretelling of what might be. It's easy to understand and you can imagine the world of the community very well. I think it's a great story. =;o) SKV
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Summary: I didnt't expect
Review: I didn't expect that the book will be like this. I didn't like it very much because it's too unrealistic. I thought that the end of the book would be more exciting, it wasn't satisfying for me.
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Summary: Releasing is not always positive
Review: I had to read this book for school.Exactlly I had to read it for the subject english. First it was a big problem to understand the text, because my english is not the best. But under hard work I tried to understand everything. Now I am glad that I have worked as hard as I did. The Book is really a exciting. It is a very interesting thought of future. Furthermore the book stimulates to think about life in our world, about life in future and I thought very much about communism, beause of the sameness in the book. But I give "The Giver" only 4 stars because of the end. The book ends very suddenly. You get the empression that Louis Lowry wanted to end the book very fast. General: It is a good book and if you want to understand my topic you should read the book :-)
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Summary: Confusing, but good!
Review: The Giver is very good, but it is confusing because of hard words and phrases that are never used it the world today. Wish the world was like this!!
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Summary: not the best
Review: ok i can understand why this book got a newberry metal, it had a good plot and it is worth reading but i found that i didn't really like the characters and i thought that it was alittle too improbable even for a sci-fi book. as i said before you should get this book and it is worth reading at least to give you a new idea of what life might be like in the future.
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Summary: Seeing the Familiar With New Eyes
Review: The Giver is more than a book for young people. Its unusual approach to a too perfect world will leave more mature readers considering some of today's social practices. Lowry uses everyday characters in this utopia to ease the reader into her spellbinding fantasy. After one too many murder mysteries, I found this story to be refreshing but never predictable. This book calls into question the practice of euphemizing the truth for children. Clearly, this story points out the importance of valuing all stages of human life.
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