The Giver

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Summary: Decent
Review: The book the giver was on the first books that I ever really read just for the sake of reading it. Before it I had just read books that were assigned to me in school. And to my suprised it was pretty good. It was about something that I usually didn't read about in school. I thought that the book was very interesting, and really kept my attention. I would recommend this book to some one who dosen't usually read a lot of books just for fun of it.

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Summary: This is a good book that should be read by everybody.
Review: The book The Giver was wonderfully written by a very talented writer, Lois Lowery. On a scale one to five with one as the lowest and five as the highest, I would give this particular novel a four. I would give it a four because it didn't have enough action. I'm the type of person who loves action. One thing that made the book good was the allusions dealing with character's and objects in the book.For instance, Asher. He is a happy character because Asher means happiness. He always wanted to play or joke around. Also, Jonas, which means a symbol of peace. He always wanted everything to be fair and go smoothly. Another thing was that the people in their community didn't have to worry about anything because eveything was the same. No one had anything different.What one person got everybody got the same. To make this short and sweet the novel The Giver didn't have any racism or jealousy. They all had a life picked out for them. They didn't have to worry about anything. Sometimes I wish the "real world", our world could be like that.

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Summary: The book was good but lacked a good ending
Review: The book the giver was written by Lois Lowery. This book is a great book for young adluts over 13. Any one younger than that age woulent uderstand the book. The main charecter of the book is a young boy named Jonas who lives in a community where everthing is perfect. All the decisions are made for all the people in the community. They have no color, no music, they cannot pick there own jobs, there lives are controled by a Comminty of Elders. Jonas is chosen to be a reciver of memorys, the only person that knows about how things like color look like . As he learns to feel emotions like love and feel pain he feels left out of the community. The rest of the book s abut his struggle to get away from the community. I think think book lacks a good eneding but the rest of the book has many twists and suprises

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Summary: It is a interesting book for all middle school students
Review: The book The Giver, written by Lois Lowry is very interesting and great. I think that it is good for all middle school students. It has a pretty high vocabulary so younger kids might not get it unless there parents read it to them. It is a very strange book but that is what it makes it different and better. If you like strange books that you can't put down this one is for you, you never are going to want to put it down. It is about a boy this is about twelve years old that a middle school could relate to, the only difference is that he lives in a society that is totally the same, everything is the same so there is no judging. That makes it so you don't have to impress anybody. The book started off a little slow but if you keep reading it gets better and better. The ending could be better but it lets you make it up so it is kinda fun because you get to pick what the ending is. So, if you like strange interesting books the book The Giver because it is a great book.

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Summary: An interesting book although the ending leaves you hanging
Review: The book was good, it gave you the details about the community bit by bit to keep you reading. But the ending left you hanging over a cliff.

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Summary: We felt it was a great story, it had adventure and mystery.
Review: The book was great. It had two major genres...mystery and adventure. I think that the ending was very disapointing. I wish you could give a little more information. But in the other hand, I could make up another one and invent it in my head. We think that it is one of the best books in the world, and it is certainly one of our favorites.

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Summary: the book was great. Lois should write more books like it.
Review: The book was great. Our grade 8 class read it, usually I find books boring to read, but in my perspective I found that I was really interested on the ways they did things. This book was probably in the far future or it was on a different planet because nothing really made sense to be in our modern world or any kind of community in the past. I think the end was really open for thought because the memories could've made him see or hear anything or maybe it was real and there was such places that were described in the memories and he had gone there. It could've been the ending for a sequel to a next book, I'm not sure. To say it again, I thought the book was !!EXELLENT!!

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Summary: A creative and good book, but...
Review: The book was okay in my opinion because of some following reasons. This book have excellent themes and potential by Lois Lowry. It offers some interesting views of what would happen if your abilities and rights to make choices were taken away in favor of more secure environment. However, there were few problems with the plot such as the ending not really tying up all of the book's storyline. Lois could have written much more extensively, especially what happens after the incident near the end of book. (I'm not going to spoil the plot...) Overally, the book was one of enjoyable reading experience I had.

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Summary: Giver
Review: The book was okay, it was a good idea too have a futuristic communitty, but there was a lot more the author could have done with the book, I mean The auther could have made it more interesting than she did. The ending was really bad too. It was confusing, and I just thought it was like the author gave up on it. I don't think she tried hard enough to make it good.

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Summary: The Giver : A Weak Attempt at Allegory (with a Bad Ending)
Review: The book was tollerable and even enjoyable until the conclusion. The book falls apart at the end. If you want a true, classic and socially enlightening book, then read THE SCARLET LETTER by Hawthorne. Lowry's weak attempts at making the boy Christlike include: a red apple (a color only seen by the boy), discovering christmas, and saving a baby from death. If you are looking for a happy ending, you'll have to fill in the blanks...