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Summary: What the giver gives to us
Review: The giver show to us kind of perfect world. There are some propositions in the book for to show perfect world. Firstly, everything is under control such as, there is no war or fear or pain even if, no feeling. Secondly, every person is assigned a role in the community when the person turns twelve. Jonas who is the protagonist in the book is assigned a role which is the giver. The giver is the only person who can feel the fear, pain, and so on. There are some reasons why I like this book. For example, the author¡¯s imagination that there is no feeling in the perfect is very interesting and funny. Moreover, the author describes the perfect world very specific with detail. That was stimulated my imagination. In addition, the author analyzes the perfect world very efficiently. This book is very useful for stimulating your imagination. I strongly recommend this book for you.
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Summary: A unique but boring book.
Review: The Giver started out pretty good but as I read it it really started to stink. Children of 12 and under should not read it because of lack of understanding. As the end comes it realy gets annoying.
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Summary: The Giver By: Kathy Bondurant and
Review: The Giver takes place in a society, that at first, seems perfect. It seems to be free from crime or societal problems. This however, leads to no freedom to make personal decisions or experience true freedom. This novels main character is Jonas and centers around his coming of age at twelve years old. At the magic age of twelve his society decides what his career and purpose in life is going to be. His discovery into his assigned job as "the giver" is one that is troubling and leads him to search outside of his community to find a better life. Follow Jonas as he learns of the true problems of his community and how maybe the grass is greener on the other side of the mountain. We recommend this book for children at least 13 years or older due to some of the life and death aspects of this story.
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Summary: An excellent novel!
Review: The Giver takes place in a Utopian society where everything is under control and there are no choices, war, fear, or pain. I think that the author, Lois Lowry, presents a glimpse of what our world could one day be like through the eyes of a young boy named Jonas. It would be a world with no war, pain, and homelessness, but also no love,feelings, colour, and happiness. In this novel, I think that the author presents us with a powerful thought that forces us to reflect about our lives until we can really appreciate the true meaning of life. I would strongly recommend The Giver to anyone of any age, because I feel it has a significant meaning to get across to all its readers. The Giver is an excellent novel that ultimately depends upon the opinion and interpretation of each of its readers to create the ending. If you ever need a book to read, try reading The Giver, I would be surprised if you didn't enjoy it!
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver takes you to a place were everything is the same, were people high in power make all of the decisions. It takes you to a place where there is no feelings, but all of that is about to change as a young boy named Jonas is About to release thousands of memories from past generations. This is a wonderfully written book and I highly recomend it.
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Summary: It's a good book for school !
Review: The Giver tells the reader the story of Jonas, who lives in a community, which seems to be a perfect world by having very strict rules. At his Ceremony of Twelve he is selected as a new „Reciever of Memory". That means that he gets to see things which the others in the community aren't able to see. Gradually, Jonas notices how the „real world" looks like. Our opinion:
It's a good book for a school-book. The beginning is very boring, but page by page it gets more interesting. Especially the moments when Jonas gets the memories are written very well so that you can imagine these situations. After the first chapters, you don't want to stop reading the book. The book makes you thinking about our own society. We would recomment to read this book. :o)
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver tells the sotry of Jonas, a boy who lives in a thefuture. There is no pain, confusion, war, poverty, sickness, orsadness in this society. At age twelve, everyone is assigned a job by the community Elders. Spouses and children are chosen by the elders as well. At teh ceremony of twelve, Jonas is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory. The Receiver is given memories of the past from the Giver. The memory of every stron emotion or sensation, every tradgdy, every song, all that has been purged from the community, is held by the Receiver. It is the Receiver's job to be the one entrusted with retaining these things for the sake of the community. Jonas receives memories of pain, war sadness, love, joy, anger, fear, and death. Jonas realizes that the people who formed his utopian community had to give up feelings, choice, colors: anything that would make one person different from his fellows. Difference leads to strife. By eliminating differences, the community can exsist without any problems that plauge society. As he learns of the past, Jonas comes to feel that his society is not a utopia at all. Having experienced emotion, Jonas realizes that he cannot continue to live in the community, and runs away. The story is told in the third person, from Jonas's point of view. The message of the book is that sometimes the cure is worese than the disease. In attempting to form a utopian society, those who created Jonas's community robbed its citizens of thier humanity, For example, if a baby is born in this society that is at all "imperfect", it is killed. I really enjoyed The Giver because it is so well written that it makes me feel as if I am there with Jonas. I would give this book four stars because I do not understand what happens to Jonas at the end. The book ends with Jonas sledding down a hill that leads him, perhaps, into an imperfect community, like ours, where colors, choice, music, and feelings exsist. The ending is not clear to me because I don't know if Jonas dies, or if he really comes to a community with colors, choice, music, and feelings.
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Summary: I like "The Giver."
Review: The Giver to me was an inspirational book in the sense that you need to be independent.Jonas really showed his way to be independent.He did what he thought was right.The author gave us all a perfect example of what a perfect world would be like and now I do not want the world to be perfect. The book teaches us all what a perfect world would be like.It really did not suprise me either because there were alot of people upset in this.Well, thats my thought. No disrespect to anybody.
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Summary: I really did not care for the Giver.
Review: The Giver to me was not a good book. You could not leave in the comunity,and the life style was boring. This book was not my favorite. A little advice - don't read this book. I think the book Green Eggs and Ham was a better book than this book. This book would have been alot better if it had more action. The comunity had alot of dumb rules in it.
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Summary: It was a "NICE" book.....but..
Review: The Giver was a "NICE" book, but there were TOO many questions that left you hanging. I think that I would have liked it a little bit more if there was an ending to the story. I can understand why the author, Lois Lowry, didn't though. I think that the reason this book was written was to let us know that we don't appreciate love and warmth that we have every day seriously enough. Jonas didn't know any of this until he was given the memory of this. I think that we all take seeing color, hearing music and birds sing, the animals, the mountains, the oceans, and love that we have in our families for granted.
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