The Giver

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Summary: A wonderful, magical story!
Review: The giver is a fantastic story. It was thinking book aboutwhat if life was like this....,or what if we had to do this. This bookis about finding out disapointments and amazing new feelings. It is a book for adults as well as children. It is a top-of-the-line book and I hope you will read it!

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a fast paced thrilling adventure book. In this book Jonas, a twelve year old, is living in a black and white world, literally. No one has memories of anything. They just say"I love you", without meaning it. In this community, war and conflict have been eliminated, at the cost of their individuality. All memory of the past is held by the Giver who keeps them in a giant library. Jonas becomes a helper of the Giver. He and Jonas both collect memories and learn a lot about each other. Near the end Jonas escapes with his little brother Gabriel who was supposed to be sacrificed because he isn't perfect.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a favorite of mine. I know that it doesn't appeal to everyone. I am not a Science Fiction reader. This book is more than Science Fiction. I am an elementary school teacher and have used this book in my classroom for years. I have colleagues that frowned about the book because they think that is suggest certain things that children shouldn't think about. A book can suggest whatever the reader wants to read into it. I personally have found it to be a excellent book to open up discussions about important issues. I try to read it around the time for black history month. It is excellent to discuss how people different from ourselves are treated my us. We discuss self-centeredness and how we want everything to be like us or our way. Critical thinking is a wonderful skill to teach using this book. Some have criticized the ending. I love the open ending that is left for the reader to decide what happens. Life is open for us to determine our ending based on the way that the issues in this book are addressed in our own lifes. The book can be used as lightly or as deep as one would like. Regardless it will leave you thinking. This is one book that my students and parents talk about for years.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a fictional book which takes place in a (location unknown) utopian society. The main character is Jonas. Jonas is raised in this society by his father, a nursery worker, and his mother, a Department of justice worker. At the "Ceremony of 12", Jonas will be assigned a job, in which he will do for the rest of his life. When Jonas is passed by all the known jobs he is told he will be the "receiver". His job is to receive the memories of all that's real, color, sun, snow, love, war, and death, from the "giver". He will eventually replace the giver and in time pass down his memories to a new receiver. The people in the utopian society don't expirience color and other things we do.(..). The Giver is a great action as well as mystery book for all ages. The plot is well written and the characters are well developed.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a funny and serious book it was written by Louis Lowery and I would give it two thmbs up! This book is based in a place with no color! In this book find a boy named Jonas. Jonas is a boy that will under go terriable hardships and pain that will change him forever. One of the most memoable moments is when Jonas gets a memory he is slideing down a icey hill and he can't control his sled. If you like Science Fiction books check this one out.

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Summary: The Giver: A Review
Review: The Giver is a futuristic novel about a "perfect world" where there are no choices, no emotions, and no color. On the twelth birthday of children, their lifelong job is chosen by the Commitee of Elders, and they begin training. Jonas, a twelve year old in this society is given the job of Reciever. The Reciever's job is to keep all of the memories of the past, and use the memories and the knowledge that the memories give him to advise the Commitee of Elders on big decisions. When Jonas begins training with the "Giver" he learns about the world before "sameness", learns about pain and suffering, but also learns of true joy. The Giver is a good book, though disturbing. It isn't really a "feel-good" novel, but it is thought provoking and interesting.

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Summary: I could not live like this! Very thought provoking!
Review: The Giver is a futuristic tale that demonstrates to the reader a possible approach to a utopian society. It clearly illustrates that the loss of freedom in such a society is a trade off for "perfection." Creativity is a threat instead of valued. Longevity is inappropriate. Thinking is not allowed.

This book is an outstanding tool for the individual reader and the middle school classroom. The projects and discussions are endlessly possible, completely the opposite of the existence of the people who populate this novel.

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Summary: Really Good
Review: The Giver is a good and interesting book even though I hated the ending. Anyway, I still give the book five stars.

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Review: the giver is a good book because their is no war and everybodygrts treated the same. It is a perfect comunty their is no pain. Youwill find no animals in this perfect comunty. Parents don't have names they just call them mom and dad you have to applie for a marage and you can only have two children one male and one female. At 12 you go to training for your job.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a good book that shows you that even when it is a perfect world there are still bad things that can hppen.