The Giver

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Summary: It was weird and changed our perspective of things.
Review: Jonas was the main character! In this book we learned that its not always the best to let other people pick things out for you. Everyone was the same, no one could really make fun of others. The Giver was a really giving was a really giving man. What he gives to Jonas you will have to read the book, to find out.

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Summary: The Giver (poor guy)
Review: Jonas world is so different from our, his world is always peaceful, no pain, never cried (except for babies), and no one has ever seen color before. Not until Jonas is twelth, his own world change, his starting to see red color and feels the real pain of real life that peoples are hiding ever since a long time ago. He meets the Giver, the Giver itself holds the worlds most painful memories, Jonas has to escape, or he will be as same as the Giver, holds memory for the peoples in his world.
This book are great, you got to read it!

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Summary: this is a great book
Review: Jonas worls is perfect. He has everything he needs. His freinds are always there for him there is no war no pian no fear. everything is peace. One day jona turned twelve he is assigned to recieve special traning from the giver a person that has memories of the past true pain. The giver thinks its time for jona to reciece the truth about his live. There is no turining back.

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Summary: Makes people think of how our world could be in the future.
Review: Jonas' world could very well describe what our world will be like in the future. Color, emotion, and free choice will be nonexistent. One person will hold every single memory in the world. Old people and unwanted infants will be silently and invisibly killed to keep the population steady. The entire enviroment will be monitered so food can be grown all year long. Lowry beautifully writes this as a warning to us that if we don't take care of our world, this imaginary place in our minds may one day become all too real.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: Jonas' world is perfect: everybody gets along, everybody has a job, and there is happiness everywhere; but throughout the story Jonas finds it is not a perfect world after all. In each family unit there is a mother, a father, a brother and a sister. When each citizen turns twelve they are assigned a job in the community, Jonas was chosen to de the Receiver. He would receive memories of happiness and colours. When Jonas sees that the real world is full of sadness, fear ,and pain he is scared. After a while Jonas escapes the community to find the real world. The author leaves you hanging to choose what happens to Jonas and the baby Gabe.
I like the idea of a perfect world, but in some cases this isn't even a perfect world. Differences cause conflicts but complete sameness is not good. I think this is a great book to read in school, it shows twelve year old that they don't have to be perfect and now maybe more than ever they have to realize that.
I give this*****(% stars)

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Summary: The Giver-A small review
Review: Jonas's community is perfect. Everyone knows what to do and how to help the community. Only one person can suffer from the knowledge of the past. That one and only person is the Giver. He has memories of the past containing true love and all the pleasures of life. But with this responsibility comes memories and of true pain and death. What will happen when Jonas is selected to receive the true knowledge of pleasure and pain? It was a good book, but it was hard to read. I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys science fiction.

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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: Jonas's world is perfect. He lives in a place where there is no crime and everybody is colorblind. They have ceremonies at the age of 12, where all children receive jobs. Jonas gets the job of receiver. He gets to receive memories from the old receiver known to Jonas as "The Giver." Then everything goes wrong. He gets to see how people are "dismissed" from the community, and he finds out his dad is a murderer. I liked this book because Jonas finds out how his life is about to change. The memories he receives, both good and bad, help him through his journey. I would recommend this book.

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Summary: Bad Ending
Review: Jonas's world is perfect. There is no fear or pain. Jonas has been chosen as the "Receiver of Memories" by the Giver. This book is an excellent book besides the ending. In the ending there wasn't much of a point. They ran away, and the memories went to the people.
It was a perfect world. You couldn't do any thing wrong or you would be released. Jonas later found out that release was a form of murder. You couldn't do anything wrong or you would be released. There was a pilot that flew in the wrong area so he was released. Some people would apply for release. I guess that was a form of suicide? Why would they want to do that?
In the book, The Giver, Jonas lived in a world where you couldn't experience pain or pleasures. Jonas had never experienced pain and when he did he experienced war and the pain of breaking a bone. Jonas's first memory was the memory of sledding down a hill. That was his first pleasure. He later visited a house with Christmas going on through the memories. It wouldn't be a life if you couldn't have something fun in your life. Jonas was kind of lucky for getting to do some of the fun things.
There was no color or sound. Everything was black and white. Jonas finally saw the color red. He saw an apple and Fiona's hair. Nobody else could see the color beside himself and the Giver. There wasn't any music. The Giver told Jonas that he first heard sound like Jonas saw the color red. Jonas later heard Christmas Carols in the Christmas memory.
Only one person could hold onto the memories. Jonas became the Receiver of memories. He was treated differently by all his friends after that. When Jonas ran away the memories were given to the people. The Giver told him that if he ran away that would happen. The reason they
held onto the memories was so that everybody wouldn't have to experience real life. Every thing was chosen for the people. Like when you were ten you would get your first bicycle. When you were twelve, you would be chosen a job. I think that it wouldn't be fair if you couldn't choose what you wanted to do for a living.
I think that the unbelievable part in this story was when Jonas saw his father release a newborn child. That would be weird for a twelve year old to become a birth mother. This book is just so different.
I wonder if there is pollution or anything else in this world that couldn't be perfect? I mean there were planes. How would they run if they didn't have internal combustion?
The book The Giver was a great book because it was so different. There wasn't anything like our world like music, color, pain, or pleasures. Since it really didn't have a good ending, maybe Louis Lowry can write a sequel to The Giver.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: Jonas, a 12 year old boy, knows nothing about the horrors of the past. He lives in a world where there is no pain, hapiness, unemployement, or any other feeling. The town is considered perfect. Everybody lives the same life in the same way. He knows nothing of the choices he could have. That is, until he is assigned as the Receiver of Memory. When everyone turns twelve, they are assigned their life job until they turn old.In the ceremony, he was assigned the most important job there was. He was to know of the horrors of the past and of the joys. The Giver was to show him all of this. He then begins to learn the horrifying truth about his community.