The Giver

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Summary: My personal review of the Giver
Review: The Giver is a book about a boy named Jonas who lives in an utopian community without pain, crimes, colers and where everything's the same. What I liked most was the relationship between Jonas and the Giver. They helped each other to cope with the memories of wars or pain and joined the memories of snow, sun and happiness. I would like to know what happened to the community after Jonas escaped from it to show the people in it the reality. Our reality. It's interestingt to think about it...

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a book about a boy named Jonas who, at the age of 12, is selected as a receiver of memories. In the community where he lives there are no feelings, no colors, no love, and no pain. Lois Lowry asks the question, "Can people be happy without feelings?" I liked the book because it was very exciting and it had an amazing plot.

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Summary: This is a excellent book for people with a big imaginations
Review: The giver is a book about a community in which everything is perfect. No one tells lies or do things that are considered to be wrong. Everything in the community is in black and white. The temperature never changes, it never snow, rain etc. The main character is a boy name Jonas, who got the most important assignment in the community asthe "Receiver of Memory."

I like the way the book was creative the whole concept of a perfect community. I didn't like the way the book did a lot of explaining about how Jonas felt. It makes the book drag.

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Summary: a utopian world
Review: the giver is a book about a perfect community in which nobody has to suffer of hunger or illness. Everything is controlled by a committee, called "The Elders". The protagonist in the book is called Jonas, a twelve years old boy, who receives the most important assignment of the community. He's chosen to become the "Receiver" of the memories. He's educated by the Giver. But during his education he gets to know the disadvanteges of the community. The book ends with an open ending.

It's a nice book. As it is a utopian world it's very interesting.

cu greetings from germany

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Summary: Best book I've ever read
Review: The Giver is a book about everything being perfect and everything being the same. Everything and everybody is black and white, the temperature outside is always the same, and it never rains, snows, and there are no violent storms. No one ever told a lie or did something wrong. If they did do something wrong, they had to say "I apologize for my inconvenience" and the people who were present had to say, "I accept your apology." It was just perfect. Jonas, one of the main characters, is an 11. There are 12 age groups, with 40-50 people in each group. They each had numbers. Jonas' number is 19. Jonas has a younger sister named Lily, she a 7. Each family in their community has a father, a mother, a boy, and a girl. That is as big as their family was aloud to get. Jonas' father worked as a worker at the Child Care Center, where there were birth mothers and newborn babies. Then, on the ceremony day, they are given to a family on the waiting list. Jonas' dad was very worried about a little boy who could not sleep at night. He was worried because if he could not sleep quietly before the ceremony he would be released from the community. Being released was a horrible thing. One day, after school, in his free time Jonas went to the park with his friends. They picked an apple off of the apple tree and started tossing it to each other. Every time Jonas threw it, it seemed to have changed in mid-air. He did not know what he was seeing. Finally, the time had come for Jonas to move from an eleven to a twelve. When you became a twelve, you were given a job and you were to start your training. Jonas' number was 19. He was getting very anxious when the Chief Elder had announced number eighteen, Fiona. He was next. Jonas was finally going to find out what he was going to do the rest of his life. The Chief Elder was ready to make the next announcement. She said, "Twenty, Pierre." Jonas was terrified, he had been skipped. He thought it may have been a mistake, but it wasn't. After all of the jobs had been given away, the Chief Elder called Jonas to the stage. She said, "Jonas has been selected to be the new Receiver of Memory." Jonas started reading his job booklet right away, he read through the rules and he was quite surprised by the last one. It said 'You are allowed to lie.' Jonas did not know what to think, he had never lied before in his life. He started his job training right away the next day. The old Receiver of Memory put his hands on Jonas'

back and he gave him all of the knowledge of life he did not have. He was happy with the good things, but he was terrified with the memories of killing and wars. But, worst of all, he found out what release was. To be released, you were taken to the Child Care Center, young or old, and you were given a shot. Immediately after that you fell limp onto the ground and died. Jonas was very upset with this. He had came up with a plan to run away. Late that night he sneaked out on his bike and biked far, far away. He had biked into a place where there was snow and rain. He had to hide from search helicopters during the day and bike at night. Jonas had not eaten in days and he was never going back to his community. He had heard a sound coming from down a hill, he did not know what it was, maybe, he thought, it was a memory the old Receiver of Knowledge did not give him. What was the sound down the hill? Will Jonas survive the snow storm? Find out for yourself by reading The Giver.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a book that depicts a "perfect" world starring the 12-year-old Jonas, who is a normal and completely perfect boy. He is living in a normal and completely perfect world, living a normal and completely perfect family. There are no lies, no deception, no dishonesty, no hate, no war, no illness, no evil, and no good. Everything is gray so there is no racism, and everyone looks the same. Among all of these identical blobs of gray is Jonas who- on his twelfth birthday awaits to be assigned a job form the community. He finds he is different than many of his friends who where chosen as workers, doctors, nurses, and laborers. For Jonas was the new Receiver of Memories... In which only the giver, and elderly old man, can give to him. All he can offer is memories of relaxation, of pain, of color, of light, of good, of bad, and of a different Utopia other than the only one Jonas was used to.
Jonas was different. He (as the receiver of memories) was allowed to lie, he could manipulate, and he could see color. Like the red of an apple or a patch of wheat blonde hair. In a world where there is no emotion the giver exposes Jonas to love, and to hate. To fear and pain and the cold and the heat. It is with this understanding and this emotion that he understands he must overthrow the community. He realizes the true insanity of the world around him, and the pure evil of his brainwashed friends and family. This book strives for individuality and freedom of self.

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Summary: it was so good but very confusing
Review: the giver is a book that I didentunder stand alote of the words I wodent give this book to some one under 10 years of ageor a new reader .PS. have a dictionary on hand.

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Summary: This is a great book
Review: The Giver is a book that is about a child growing up in a place that is totally shut out to the rest of the world and because it is that means that all the people in this town have rules and regulations to follow but if you call that folklore than I have always had the wrong definition because I thought that folklore was a set of stories that people base their lives on. But in another aspect it is folklore because the way the people in the communtiy live is all based on the way things used to be so yes The Giver is an apppropriate book for the study of folklore it makes a person think real hard and wonder does this book fit the desciption of folklore and that has to me judged by the reader. I believe this is an excellent book to read if you want your mind to wander because I know mine sure did.

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Summary: Enter a world of love and hate.
Review: The Giver is a book that is based on the future. In this future there lives a boy named Jonas. Jonas soon learns that in this world he receives no love and feels no feeling of sympathy or respect. He soon gets a job in which he learns that there once was a time in the past where parents gave their children love and where you were aloud to have more than one brother or sister. He soon learns of what it means to love and begins to fall in love with a baby who he will soon save the life of. When you read this book you will enter a world of love and hate.

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Summary: understanding how a "perfect society" works
Review: The Giver is a book that makes you think. It demonstrates how revolutionary thoughts come to mind in a society where you are constantly watched and told what to do. The Giver demonstrates a utopian society in which everyone follows the rules, and no one knows of anything different. The people of this city do not feel pain, or have emotions. People of the society live without having their own opinion, and can not demonstrate how they feel in any way. The people live with no purpose but to do their assigned role in the community.

I feel this books plot and setting are a masterpiece. If you want to understand how a utopian society should work, it should help you understand how different societies could work; besides the capitalistic society we live in today. The story will helps visualize a perspective of a utopian society, and can bring out flaws in such a society. It helps to understand political problems within such a government. Overall the story just helps in one to think better, and broaden knowledge of how a society can work. This book broadened my view on society where everything is perfect, but it also showed me such a society could only work if the citizens feel no pain, or emotions. To me it demonstrated how a perfect society like Marxism, cannot work in our world, because people do have emotions, and do want to voice their own opinion. I recommend The Giver to young children, because it is an easy to understand the story. I also recommend it to adults, because they can take the story's message on step further and give one a new perspective.