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Summary: "The Giver" review
Review: The Giver is vividly descriptive and very imaginative. It definitely has become one of my all time favorites. Even the ending let you use your own imagination to wonder exactly what happened to Jonas, and in that sense that book is an endless tale.
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Summary: Irene Rodriguez Period 1 English
Review: The Giver is written by Lois Lowry and it is about a boys life. One of the characters in this book is Jonas. He has a sister named Lily, and a mom and a dad. He has a best friend named Asher and they do cool stuff together. He lives on a flat island. They are like big brother because they have to listen from a big speaker. They have to look the same and you don't pick your job, they give it to you. I think this book is very good, but it is wierd in a way.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver is written by Lois Lowry. The book is about a boy called jonas. he lives in a community where are very strikt ruels.for every year there are ceremonies. in the ceremonie of 12 jonas gets the Receiver of Memory.
i find the book very interesting because it is very exciting and crazy. the book wasn't very difficult to read and understand.
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Summary: A Perfect Civilization or Not?
Review: The Giver leads you on a wild fantasy ride through a perfect civilization. It captivates you with it's interesting storyline and it's very diverse characters. This book is different from all others that I've seen with it's original storyline and plot. It all begins when Jonas, a simple twelve year old in the community, gets selected to be the new Receiver of Memory for all of the community. In the Giver's hands over the course of a year, Jonas experiences things he has never known. Pain, love, death and so many other feelings and colours his community has and never will know. This is when Jonas realizes things must change. This book opens the eyes of it's readers and makes you see how good our world really is. We have choices we can make, colours we can see and feelings we can express towards others around us. In Jonas's world they don't have any of these things. Though people in our world sometimes express feelings of hate and anger, we still are lucky to now what these things are and how to fix them I thought this book written by Lois Lowry was original, fascinating and provocative. Though Lois Lowry has been accused of being a pessimistic in the end of the book, I think the opposite. I believe that in the final chapter the storyline is meant to be that of joy and happiness. Traci Verleyen
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Summary: Don't Judge This Book by it's Cover
Review: The Giver looked really boring at first, but due to an assignment from a teacher, I had to read it. Most of the class read ahead of the required reading. It is defininately a page turner. You will start to really feel for Jonas and what he goes through. The ending was very confusing, but if you have a good imagination, you'll love this one.
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Summary: The Giver was a very enjoyable novel.
Review: The Giver made me realize what a totally controlled society could be like. The Giver is really a moving book, that make speople realize how much pressure someone can be under. It is placed in the future, when everything is controlled by the Elders. People no longer see color. And there are so many rules, I would want to run away.
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Summary: If you (dis) liked The Giver read This Perfect Day
Review: The Giver may be a great book, and I *have* read it three times, but it still comes nowhere near the power of This Perfect Day, by Ira Levin. The Giver is very incomplete, with a lack of detail about the society and an incomplete ending. It is prophetic in fortelling a possible future, but I just read This Perfect Day, and Ira Levin's reality seems more feasible.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver may have won the Newberry Book Award, but there are acouple of places in the book that didn't make sense, such as the ending. What happened, he startes rolling down the hill then goes into a house with x-mas lights, did he die or something? What exactly happened to him? We as a class hade to read this book and are tolled to write a review at Amazon, because thats were we got the books. Many of my calss mates didn't understand the ending.
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Summary: Very Orwellian-insightful and thought provoking.
Review: The Giver related the story of Jonas, a child growing up in a world where "sameness" is the order of the day. All actions, events and behaviors are well defined and regulated by "the leaders". The "leaders" believe they have created a Utopian society of general comfort and well-being, good health and absence of fear. The fact remains, however, that this is nevertheless a human society and there are complications. The basic animal urges of the human species must be managed. There are "communities" beyond this one's border with different practices and customs. There are unforeseen events to be dealt with. There are old technologies and practices that must be avoided to maintain sameness. How to do that is managed through the office of The Receiver of Memory, a lonely and solitary member of the community who has been imprinted with all the historical, emotional and other human "memories" that need to be kept alive (for those who forget history are doomed to repeat it, a scenario definitely not in the game plan for this community). He is a figure of great respect within the community whose role is to use his memories to advise the "leaders' in times of crisis and/or confusion. Jonas' world is turned upside down when he is selected to become the next Receiver of Memory. He not only experiences the pain and grief of all the long forgotten, yet stored memories-grief, starvation, war, hate and so on-but also learns the cruel tradeoffs and the intrinsic hypocrisy that the "leader" engage in to maintain their Utopian society. And as he continues to train, Jonas eventually is faced with a situation that forces him to choose whether he personally can be part of the hypocrisy and deception that maintains that system. A thoughtful, well written, extraordinarily moving story with lovingly created characters, the Giver is a book that can-and will-offer philosophical challenges to readers of any age. One of the best books for younger adolescents I've ever read.
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Summary: Excellent!!! Different from other books.
Review: The Giver sends out such curiosity that makes you want to read on. Seeing how the story is written in the status of no crime, violence, sex, and many other things that this world contains. It is interesting to see how the story goes through and ends up. Twelve yr. old Jonas has been chosen,from the ceremony of Twelves, to be the reciever of memory. Jonas has to slowly adapt to not seeing his friends (Asher and Fiona) as much as before. Lowry takes you on a journey of a boy going into adulthood in a place set with rules and regulations.He slowly discovers things he hadnt before.
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