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Summary: only for insiders
Review: The giver is interesting if you like this scientific style... the givers end is very unsatisfied and one of those typical school books. You shouldn't translate every second word...that makes the book boring...
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Summary: An intreging book from the community beyond!!!
Review: The Giver is just one of the many books written by Lois Lowery. The setting is in the future of a community that is very monotonuos. There are no momories of any generation but there own, only one person has all the momories of any time and place. The Giver is what he goes by and he has apprentice named Jonas who is the Reciever of memories. Jonas was chosen and honored to have been picked for the job. He took real pain and hunger for the first time. The community is uniform everything is a routine and has sameness. At the ending Jonas runs away taking someone special with him on the long journey. I will leave the ending for you to figure out!
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Summary: Best book ever!!!
Review: The Giver is meant to be a children's book, but kids young and old can enjoy this thought-provoking novel. Even if you've never before read anything like this, you'll be sure to enjoy it!!!
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Summary: Seeing the Familiar With New Eyes
Review: The Giver is more than a book for young people. Its unusual approach to a too perfect world will leave more mature readers considering some of today's social practices. Lowry uses everyday characters in this utopia to ease the reader into her spellbinding fantasy. After one too many murder mysteries, I found this story to be refreshing but never predictable. This book calls into question the practice of euphemizing the truth for children. Clearly, this story points out the importance of valuing all stages of human life.
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Summary: Read it SIX TIMES and still haven't had enough
Review: The Giver is my all time favorite book. I read it first in the third or fourth grade, and even now at 14, I still love it. I'm not much on Science Fiction/Fantasy, but with this book it seems almost like it could happen. It's so easy to get in to. The way it's written, you get something different out of it each time. It leaves you thinking about it for days. Lois Lowery is brilliant to have thought up this plot. If you haven't read it yet please do! I know you'll love it!
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Summary: I think The Giver is the best book. It's my favorite!
Review: The Giver is my favorite book! I love Jonas's world, and with him I grow to hate it. I love the Giver, and the memories! I just love the whole book. There's just no other way to describe it!
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Summary: For a community that lacks emotions, The Giver sure has many
Review: The Giver is my favorite book. I liked how the author told thestory from Jonas's point of view and you found out things like colorwhen he did. The way it was written with phrases like "precision of language" and how everyone was "a" nine or "a" twelve that helped me understand the precise but dull way that things were done in their community. When we read this book in the sixth grade our teacher asked us what Jonas meant in the end of the book when he was going on that last sled ride and and the book said "I remember this place Gabe." and it was true. But it was not a thin and burdensome reccolection: this was different. This was something he could keep it was a memory of his own. We decided that it was refering to the dream that Jonas had just after he got that first memory of the sled ride and that he was traveling to the place that he could not get to in the dream. Many people said that they didn't like the endind. I did. It leaves room for your imagination that place where he was travellin to and had worked so hard to get to was there and welcoming them. It doesn't matter what that place was, only that he had made it there and that he would be o.k. and that maybe just maybe there was also music comeing from the community. Maybey just maybe the community had come to terms with themselves and were singing and maybe just maybe it was only an echo. We also had to write sequals to the book for English. Many said that Jonas had died and gone to heaven. Others wrote about the place that he had travelled to. Some wrote about what it was like back in the community when they had to come to terms with themselves.In one story which I remember very well, the entere community went completly mad and a few went as far as to blame the Giver and they in their utter madness killed him. After that the community just destroyed itself. The ending brings many posibilities and would not be so bad if you just thought about it. I would not reccomend this book for anyone under 6th grade. Not because they couldn't understand it but because they wouldn't get as much out of it and because for some it could be overwhelming. Anyone who reads it will want to discussit later. The Giver is a book that requires you to think. Requires you to use your imagination. You also have to feel whats going on. I think that it deserves the Newberry medal that it got.
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Summary: The Giver was Great!!!
Review: The Giver is my favorite book. My favorite part of the book was the ceremonies, where different age groups of children, receive different markers of age. For example, some children receive bicycles, others get new jackets to wear, and the twelve-year-olds get their placment in the community. I like books where the events seem possible, but unlikely. Maybe in the year 2500 a community like Jonas's might exist. I wouldn't like a community where everyone is the same.
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Summary: the giver
Review: The giver is one 1 book that i think will become of the future.most likly in the next hundred years. The giver is a realy good book for people all age's will like. This is one of my favorite fiction book's. There is not love or pation in this book. One good thing about this book is that it was not boring. One bad thing about it was that none of the people wanted to feel real pian or know the past. I gave this book 3 stars.
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Summary: Everyone can learn SOMETHING from this book...
Review: The Giver is one of my favorite books. It really made me appreciate and realize that I am lucky to have what I have. I love the way Lois Lowry writes, using lots of metaphors that one can ponder and discuss. By the end of the book I was crying! I highly recommend that everyone read this book, YOU WILL LOVE IT!!!
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