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Summary: A good read in class
Review: The Giver is a good choice for reading in class since it is written in quite an understandable language and contains a lot of helpful annotations.
I personally wouldn't have read this book outside school. I found it boring and not interesting to read. The story is confusing and ends too suddenly.
I would have wanted the Auther to continue the book a bit more to find out how the community develops.
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Summary: A Good Read
Review: THE GIVER is a good study of folklore and transcendentalism or the philosophy of the perfect world. It shows how it could or couldn't work, depending on the reader's point of view and how it changes the human being. It is most definitely worthy of its awards and is a good and easy read. It's not difficult to understand and yet provides a deeper meaning for anyone willing to look for it. Definitely 4 stars possibly 5.
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Summary: the giver
Review: the giver is a graet book! the first time i read it was when i was in 6th grade at age 12, its a really deep book and sence ther i have read it 3 more times each time understanding more and more. i really would recomend reading it more then once, but wait untill ur at least 14.
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Summary: Jonas in the Future ...
Review: The Giver is a great book about a boy named Jonas who lives in a future civilization with his two parents and sister, Lily. Everything is perfect and everything is the same every day. When Jonas becomes a twelve-year-old and gets assigned to his new job, as all the kids who are twelve do, his job is not a regular job -- it is a special assignment. He becomes the Receiver, a painful but important job. He must receive the memories of past times, good and bad. His leader, The Giver, has the job of giving the memories to Jonas. This is a very exciting book, one of those books you can't put down until it is done. This author is good at writing books that make you excited and tense by changing everything in the story until it makes sense. It's so much fun to know what happens in the end. It is unpredictable -- the story comes to a very different conclusion than you would think. It is a mix of confusion, adventure, and a little bit of sadness. I love it!
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Summary: The Giver, Ana Amazing Book of the Future
Review: The Giver is a great book about a boy named Jonas who lives inan almost perfect community with no future, no choices, and nopain. When Jonas is chosen to be the new receiver of memories, his whole life changes. The community in which Jonas lives is plain and flat, with no hills, and the weather is always the same, with no rain or snow. All the houses are the same. The food and the furnishings are the same. Even the people are the same. Jonas has a father who is a nurturer, one who cares for babies; a mother who is a lawyer, and an eight-year-old sister named Lily, a sometimes-annoying girl, who goes to school. Jonas has two friends: Asher, a mischievous and funny boy, and Fiona, a nice girl whom Jonas likes. There is Gabriel, a little baby boy who has been sleeping at Jonas' house to try and become a part of the community. Last but not least, there is the Giver, the former receiver, whose job is to hold onto the community's memories. He changes Jonas' view of the world, and becomes Jonas' best friend. The Giver teaches Jonas a lot. He helps him to get feelings through memories in order to become the new receiver. He also helps Jonas learn more about the rules and history of the community. One night, the Giver shows Jonas one of the rules of the community called "Releasing." The only thing Jonas knows about releasing is that it is part of his father's job. The Giver has Jonas observe his father perform the procedure on the Giver's television screen. Jonas gets extremely mad when he learns that releasing is basically murder. He is shocked when he sees his father inject a deadly liquid into an infant. After that incident, Jonas is certain that his community is not perfect. He thinks about how no one is allowed to have feelings and make choices. The Giver and Jonas make a plan for Jonas to go to another community so that he and the rest of their community could have a better and different life by having the freedom of choices and feelings. I think this was a really good book because it shows me a new view of the world. For example, it tells me that you shouldn't try to make a perfect world because you will have to give up important things like emotions and being a unique individual. I give this book five stars as a rating because it was well written and very informative and detailed. This book was very exciting, interesting, and fun to read. I recommend it to anyone from ten to adult because I promise you, the book will be a part of you, and you won't be able to put it down once you take a peek behind the cover! Have fun! END
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a great book about a boy named Jonas. Jonas is 11 years old and is growing up in a time where everyone and everything is the same. He lives with his family unit which consists of his mother, his father, his little sister, and himself. When he turns the age of 12 he is assigned a job in the comunity. But he doesn't recieve any ordinary job, he is assinged the Reciever. The Reciever is a job of great wisdom and honor. But when he starts the job he relizes how different the world used to be. Than he is faced with the dicision of wheather or not he wants to do anything about it.
The Giver was a great book just becuase it isn't like anything else. Jonas is in the struggle of his life that leads to much suspence and hard disicion making. I would definetly recomend this book to anyone who likes books that present new ideas and that are very suspenceful.
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Summary: The Giver - A Must Read!!
Review: The Giver is a great book about a mysterious land where towns, called communities have decided on something called sameness. With sameness, everything is the same, no hills, no snow, rain, or wind, and no colors, or taste. But one boy, Jonas was born with the ability to see "beyond." He is then chosen as the new giver. With a great storyline and an amazing twist ending, I would recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: The Robotic Society
Review: The Giver is a great book about a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas. In Jonas's community receiving the assignment of The Receiver honored him. In this society there is no pain, color, not even real feelings. These people in Jonas's community in a sense were brainwashed. From the beginning of their lives they were trained to speak common phases such as "I apologize for my inconvenience," and "I accept your apology." In the community, it is common practice to share each other's feelings of the day at dinner with family units. However, these people can not explain their feelings properly. Once, during dinner Lilly, Jonas's sister, told how she met with kids from neighboring community and became angry at how they broke the rules. However, she did not realize that they didn't know or didn't have the same rules. I believe the book is mainly about humanity. I find it very hard that a utopian society could ever exist. I believe that human beings need emotions such as fear, danger, love, and even hate. Without these emotions people would never be human; they would simply be mindless robots willing to obey. In reading this book I have learned that having imperfections is only part of being a human being.
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Summary: Amazing book!
Review: The Giver is a great book and definitely one of my favorites. I won't bother explaining the plot because I think that has been done enough times. And this book shouldn't be scary for anyone. If it is, umm... I'll spare you the embarassment of what I'm thinking. ^^;; Don't read this book if you aren't prepared to think. It makes you ponder and appreciate all the things we have in life and how important the simple things are. However it does very briefly touch the topics of suicide and puberty, so parents might not want kids younger than 10 reading it. (But they probably wouldn't understand it anyway) The Giver is really good and if you haven't already, you should read it now!!
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Summary: I LOVED THE GIVER!!!
Review: The Giver is a great book because it's a made up culture where you apply for a child or a spouse,you never know what to expect.I reccomend The Giver to anyone looking for a good book to read.
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