The Giver

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Summary: The Book I Keep On Giving--The Giver
Review: The Giver is possibly the best book I have ever read. I received it from a friend about eight years ago, who received it from a teacher she had been working with. Since then, I have given the book to no less than thirty people, each of whom has touched my life in a loving and eye opening way. I have read The Giver so many times, I have gone through three copies! I am in my twenties and have worked with children most of my life. My favorite literature genre is young adult, but due to my age I am often not taken seriously by those around me when it comes to discussing novels. I feel anyone who takes the time to read The Giver will understand my passion for young adult literature. I continue to pass along the words of Ms. Lowry, because I feel the need to share with the world the meaning behind her stories. I have read several reviews for The Giver which have stated it is inappropriate for the age it is written for. It deals with controversial, or delicate, subjects, such as death, puberty, maturity, sexuality, love, the environment, child bearing, the roles of men and women, etc. The list could keep on going! The point is, for those of you who work with children or have children of your own, this book gives you the opportunity to discuss these matters with them! Open up your own mind and let them open theirs to the world around them! Some reviews say The Giver is too emotional a read for children. Let them feel! Let them get angry, or hurt, or scared, or joyful--talk to them! I feel this is an excellent book for communication--if I didn't feel this way, I would not have written such a lengthy and involved review!

I also recommend Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry. It is an excellent companion to The Giver.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is probably the wierdest book I have ever read. Yet it is one of the best books I have ever read. If you are looking for a book that you really get into, read this. It is about a controled community that was designed to be a utopia. But the people of it did not realize what was being hid from them. Then finally somebody realized what was happening to the community and did something about it. I highly recommend this book.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is really a fascinating book. I'm not really a strong reader, infact I hate reading, i am in the 7th grade and had to read it for language arts and loved it. It really keeps you on the edge of your seat.

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Summary: One of my Favorite Books!!!
Review: The Giver is really one of the best books I have ever read. It is about a boy who lives in a world with no feelings, no color, no happines or pain. It tells about his quest to bring life back to his "community" and how he learns on the way. The Giver is full of inner meanings, if you like books like that, and makes you think deeply about what you're reading. I highly reccommend this fabulous book to anyone who likes powerful, meaningful books, that also are suspenseful and enjoyable to read.

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Summary: Running away from home? no family? bring THE GIVER
Review: The Giver is science fiction.The main character would be a 12 yearold named Jonas.This is a community that everything is planned for them: their jobs, their clothing, everything!This community wants no mistakes. Well, Jonas gets given the job of the Giver.The person who gives information to people.Uinfortunatly Jonas doesn't want this job tries to quit but finds out that he can't.Therefore Jonas decides on leaving his family and running away with a boy named Gabe.Jonas didn't have what it took to be the giver.the former reciever of memory was the givers daughter but she had failed to, she couldn't handle the work so she "released" herself. I won't give much more information because if I do I will spoil the book for you.Just read the book with an opened mind.I got to admit the first 3 chapters are boreing but as you read on you will never want to put your book down again!Read it i's give it an award! GREAT job Louis continue your fantastic work!

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Summary: THIS IS AN EXCELLENT BOOK YOU HAVE TO READ!!!!
Review: The Giver is such a good book. It talks about the perfect world in which a person's whole life would revolve only in their own community. No one ever gets hurt, and everyone is in black and white. This book describes the Utopian world and how everything is just perfect. However, there is one person who sufffers it all---Jonas. He is the only one who can feel love, see color, have true feelings, etc. It must be very devastating for Jonas to be the only one out of his whole community. I really enjoyed this book and its creativity. All in all, this book is excellent. I read the book in one day! YOU HAVE TO READ I TO BELIEVE IT!!! =)

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Summary: Love it, the best book I have ever read
Review: The Giver is such a great book, It was hard to understand @ first, but once it all fell together, I couldn't get myself away from it, I recomend this book to all young readers, I personally don't like to read, but this book was so consuming.

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Summary: Good Book but Not Enough Description
Review: The Giver is the Story of a boy coming of age that has been singled out at the time he is supposed to get his job assignment. Jonas, the boy was a seemingly normal boy until he got his job assignment. He was given a job that one person may succeed at and another may not. He has been chosen as his community's next keeper of memories. The community is free from pain and despair except for the keeper of memories was the only one to know of them. He has been given the duty to keep all the good and bad memories of the old time. Once he gets some of his special training by the Giver, the former keeper of memories, he decides that the people need the good and bad memories so that they do not live a controlled life without meaning. While he is trying to give the memories back, he finds another boy that would have been released (which means he would have been killed), if he had not been saved. The story has a great moral. We should not lose our feeling and passion to have a life where there is peace everywhere, but no freedom, a controlled life, where one does not choose to do things. This book was an easy read and it teaches a lot. It teaches that you should have both good and bad. By getting rid of the bad the good is gone. All that is left is things that are not good or bad. The book had a good plot but it did not explain itself enough. It receives a 4 out of five from me.

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Summary: A Remarkable Book
Review: The Giver is truly a remarkable story in many ways. From the first, I fell in love with the utopian Community, a place of comfort and belonging. Like the main character, Jonas, I had to learn the hard way that nothing's perfect. As it was meant to do, this book raises questions about the balance of freedom and order in society, but the truly remarkable thing about it is that it tells this in such a way that us children can appreciate. I read this book every year, each time understanding a little bit more about what makes us human and what the ambiguous ending really means. I will never be the same for having read this book, and I thank you, Lois Lowry

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Summary: Confusing, but good!
Review: The Giver is very good, but it is confusing because of hard words and phrases that are never used it the world today. Wish the world was like this!!