A Reading Guide to the Giver (Scholastic Bookfiles)

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Summary: Awesome
Review: The Giver, by Lois Lowry is a stunning novel richly packed with symbolsm and advnture.This is my faviort book that i have ever read because it is different in so many ways like the ending.I read this book in the summer of 7th grade and didn't quit understand it, but i read the book again in my 8th grade class and understud much more.This is a grate book for jr. high students and up.

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Summary: An book I will never forget in my life
Review: At first when i had to read The Giver for my english class, I was "This will be boring!". When I came back from school, I started reading...and i couldn't stop! This is a unique story, the people are all the same. They live in a world with no music, or color or differences or true love. They take a pill to make them act like robots. The community gives them a job and a spouse and a family. They get their jobs at the 12th year. There is peace, but they don't have almost any feelings! Jonas is choosed to be the Receiver. He will have all the memories of The Giver. He will have all the memories of the old times (colors, love, pain, loneliness, hapiness...), so he can be the wiseman of the community, he will make the best decisions for the peace of the community. But only one person cannot handle all these feelings and he feels apart from the others, he feels he can't fit in anymore, like when he was still a child. He grows too old for a kid of his age and the other kids don't understand him. Then he learns the end of every person released in to the "Community's Elsewhere". But he decides to control his own future. With the help of the Giver, he discovers that there is a different "elsewhere" for everyone, some place beyond the community, where the past, the present and the future are. This is a wonderful book, that made me smile and cry. I will never forget this book, who has strong feelings to communicate to the reader. I stopped reading sometimes, for a minute, and look around me, enjoy the colors, the music and the happiness of be free of my own feelings. This book is one of the best books I have ever read, i really love this book and I think everyone should read it.

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Summary: Starts great, but loses its momentum
Review: My wife and I loved this book for the first 2/3, but then the plot lost its way and the characters went with it. I would still recommend reading the book, just borrow it from someone else!

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Summary: A Good book
Review: This was an good book. In the begining you think I don't want to finish this but once you do you think, wow this was great. I wonder what will happen to Jonas and Gabrial next!

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Summary: How the world changes colors
Review: I thought this was a good book, even though it confused me a bit, but it shows the true colors of the world and the people. I feel that this book is a good example of how things can change just by the people that come in and out of our lives. It makes you feel something that someone or something couldn't. This was a good book for the people to understand, love, peace, and the true meaning behind life.

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Summary: Lois Lowry's- The Giver
Review: Lois Lowry puts such great detail in this book, it makes you feel like you are with Jona. It is weird to read about a different world, especially Jona's. The "sameness" in their world just makes the book more interenting. Jona goes through many changes and has lots of emotions throughout the book. I reccomend this book to any grade above 5th. This is a GREAT reader! Jona has the most mportant job in the whole community because "The Giver" is the only one who sees the world as it really is. The Giver gets to see everything in a different way, which makes the person change entirely now that they know the truth. I could not put this book down! The plot just makes you want to keep reading and reading it!

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Summary: A wonderful must read for any age group!
Review: I just loved this book,the way Lowry made you feel happy that you are able to have feelings, to see colors, to hear music is just amazing. I love the way she describes everything so clearly you can picture it in your mind. The first time I read this book the ending was a bit blurry but then I began to see why she ended the book that way. This book is a must read and just makes you think about the things you take advantage of everyday.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: Jonas's family lives in a community where everything is the same. Every family has one girl and one boy. Also everyone's birthday is in December. They have one big ceremony in December, and you get a specific gift or job depending on what age you were. The weather in the community is always sunny and never changes. On Jonas's 12th birthday he was assigned the job as Receiver of Memory. He has to go to the Giver, who was the old Receiver of Memory, and learn about the past and remember other memories. It is a very important job, and Jonas was glad to do it. One day Jonas's father, who works as a Nurturer, brought home a child named Gaberial who was having difficulty sleeping through the night. Jonas's family tried very hard to get him to sleep through the night, but he could never do it unless Jonas passed memories to him. One day at dinner, Jonas's father told the family that Gabe was going to be released. Jonas knew that it meant he would die. He didn't want that to happen to Gabe so he decides to take him and leave the community. They leave at night time. They encounter many different things on the outside they called Elsewhere. Some things are good and others are bad, like loneliness, hunger, and changes in the weather. In the end Jonas and Gabe didn't realize what would happen to them, but at least they were together. Read the book to try to figure just what happens at the end.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a great book for all ages. It's stated in the future where everything has changed. Your families are picked for you, there is no more music, or colors. People don't even get to pick their jobs in this weird land. Only one person get's the spiecal gift to live in the past, hold memories of how it used to be, see the colors, hear the wonderful music. Although you may think you want this job once you get it, it might not seem so great anymore. Holding everyones memorys of horor and pain so they don't... not being able to talk with your friends about what you did at work that day. Do you actully want that job? The boy in this story decided he wanted to leave run away and not turn back. Break the bubble scientist had made so that people wouldn't feel anything, no feelings, have any pain or great happyness.

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Summary: Great book!
Review: The Giver has been my favorite book since I first read it about seven years ago. I believe that this is simply a compelling, powerful book about the harmful effects of "Sameness", a world in which people have been taught not to feel. The story covers a boy named Jonas who grows up in this world and in chosen to be the receiver of the memories the people in his sheltered world are not permitted to feel. The events that follow are awesome, unexpected, and moving. Don't miss the chance to read this one!