The Giver

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Summary: A Utopia?
Review: The Giver is a very exciting and interesting book. It is abouta boy named Jonas who is selected to be the Receiver of Memories. TheGiver has a very important role in Jonas' life because he is the one who gives Jonas all of the memories he has and ever will have. The jobs makes jonas and the Giver the only people who have memories in their community. They are the only people in their community with memories because the memories were giving citizens of the community pain and grief. When that happened, the community made it so only one selected person would have the memories, the pain, and the pleasure. This job is very painstaking, but it pays off. it pays off because Jonas can see in color, and nobody else in the community can. At first, Jonas' community seems like a utopia because there are no accidents, pain, grief, or hunger; but Jonas wants love and feelings to be a part of his everyday life. they aren't part of his everyday life because feelings were taken away with memories. Jonas decides to run off to another community, so he can change his community and give people memories of love, feelings, and choices, so they could lead nomal and happy lives. You see, if the Receiver of Memories leaves the community all of the memories he or she had to go back to the people in the town. I feel this book is very interesting and suspenseful. it is nice and juicy with descriptions, too. I think this story definitly was told from Jonas' point of view. If I were Jonas, I just would have run away as soon as I found out that there were no feelings or choices. The message this book gives me is that we already live in a utopia. This could be true because with every advantage there comes a disadvantage. This way we are living in the Utopia, or it doesn't exsist.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a very fascinating book. Lois Lowry creats a very well thought out community without anything that the citicenz can do or think about negative. Everthing has to be preciece and perfect. When they have a proble they go to the Reciever who holds all of the memories of the past and Joanas unsespectdedly is chosen to be the new Reciever after the Giver's Daughter Rosemary the previous reciever is released.Release is a whole other story, once Joanas finds out what release is by his father releasing a twin that was only 2 onces less than his brother. Joanas takes Gabriel (mabey his brother) and his memories he goes to another community or sies getting their. TWO THUMBS UP.

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Summary: A excellent book
Review: The giver is a very good book I liked it very much and I think that you should read it too(only if you like science fiction). It has a interesting plot and a thinkable ending.
The giver is about a boy named Jonas he lives in a different comunity in a place where there is no pain,stress or bad history each family is alowed to have only two children each of different gender.Jonas gets to be picked as the next Reciever of memory, he learns and he discivers the horible secrets of his comunity and decides to do something about it. And that is about all Im going to tell you. I gave this book five out of five stars because I think that this book is excelently done...

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Summary: [...]
Review: The giver is a very good book. I like it alot the begining is very boreing but the in the middle it starts to grab your attion and you want to read on, even during my break time i would sit in my desk and read.But the end of the book is confuseing to some people when you read this book you cant be closed minded you have to be able to picture things in your head your. so i suggest you buy the book and start reading.

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Summary: enthraling
Review: The Giver is a very good book. It gives a different way of living and looking at the world. You will love Jonah and the Giver. I read this book in 3 grade and still love it in 7 grade. I encourage all of you to read it and keep an open mind.

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Summary: 'The Giver' Review
Review: The Giver is a very good book. Jonas, a young boy, lives in a perfect community. He has never known colors, felt fear or love. In December, his life changes.
At the ceremony of Twelve, he is selected to recieve the memories of pain and joy. The Giver transmitts the memories by placing his hands on Jonas' back.
Some memories are painful. 'They have never known pain,' He thought. He's overwhelmed with responsiblity. 'But you suffer all the time.' When he becomes so stressed, he runs away with Gabriel, a Newchild. As he rides down the hill with the sled, memories of joy and love come to him. The end is ambiguous, leaving the reader to decide Jonas and Gabe's fate.
The Giver is a Newberry Medal winner. It's a, "One more chapter!" book. If you read The Giver, you will be glad you did.

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Summary: Drop at end
Review: The Giver is a very good book. No, a realy good book. I loved it. It kept me wondering, I would try to guess what would happen next. Things that kept on appering in my head were questions such as: what exacly does this mean? it might be a lie! whas this right or wrong? could it be better? The Giver is a very exiting book that kept me on my toes. The story is about a boy named Jonas who was chosen to hold all the memories of the past for his community. His community is a town were everyone is the same. However that doesn't mean that they just are all equal. They had the same of everything, same school every thing in their lives were the same. People got assigned jobs at 12 and were given every thing they needed. There were strict rules such as 1 boy and 1 girl per family. They didn't even have their own kids they had to apply for them and like "UPS" would deliver them to your house which was exacly like everyone elses. Anyway, I didn't like the ending. It just sudenly ended. Jonas ran away!

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Summary: An Exceptional Young Adult Book
Review: The Giver is a very gratifying book. And it's not just for kids. Children will be fasinated by the story of Jonas, the Giver, and the perfect world they live in. Adults will find a sufficiently good read here too. Lowry is a very talented writer, and with The Giver has fabricated an awesome idea, flexing her muscles with a good plot and memorable, likeable characters. My only complaint was this book could have been so much more. As an older reader (still young at heart I assure you :) I found myself grimising at how underdeveloped the Giver character was. He's such a remarkable creation, show us and tell us more about him Lois! I realize this is a Young Adult book, and that explains the shortness of it, but still, even as a kid I think I would want to know more. More about the other communities, a little bit more about Jonas, and mostly, so much more about the Giver! Towards the end, he simply disappears too. Still, despite Lowry's lack of giving us much on the Giver, her novel is a very exceptional read for the youth, and a good, quick and easy read for the adult, that will make you think.

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Summary: I liked this book, and I hope that you will read to.
Review: The Giver is a very inspirational book.It makes you think about how things would be if we lived like Jonas and his family, and the rest of the community. I would recommend this book to you because its different and interesting. I liked the book at sometimes because there was a part when you turned the age of twelve you would be assinged jobs of different areas of the community such as the Giver, Caretaker of the old, and there were many others but I am not going to give those things away. I liked the book and I hope that you will too.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is a very interesting and inspiring book. It's about a boy named Jonas living in a community that is perfect. This community has no feelings, nor colours. Jonas has been chosen to be the Receiver of Memory on his 12th birthday and discovers the real world of pain, the feelings and learns all the colours. Lois Lowry's creative mind touched me, with her amazing story. This book leaves you with a surprising ending. I strongly recommend this to all the readers out there who love to read and children from ages 10 and up.