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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was an excellent by literary standards and engaging storyline. The story of seclude community that has controlled actions of all the citizens. Everyone is assigned a job at the "Ceremony of Twelve" and from there families are put together and babies are given to you. One boy, Jonas, becomes the chosen to receive memories. From there on, the story goes into a detail what the community has given up to avoid the past memoirs of their humanity. This book to me was interesting from the start. I was really disappointed that the book ended so fast. Still, this book is a must read.
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Summary: owen marston orrhs mattaposeit mass * good book"
Review: The giver was an excellently writen book. The content is more adult natured but it is a good class room read. it opens the minds of younger children to the horrors of life that is all around them. to the things that they have become acostomed and desensitised to. maybe if everyone read the giver and was taught how horrible and yet natural a thing death is than things like colombine high school shootings would never take place. a good read, i belevie this book could change some people in some way.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was an exceptional book. Lois Lowry does an excellent job of describing normal everyday things in new fascinating ways. The book starts out slow but once you read past the slow parts. It' a phenomenal book.
Jake
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was an exciting fiction novel that holds on to the reader until the very end. I liked it because it really let my imagination run wild between the characters and the setting. Since the setting was in a world totally opposite our own, it was hard to forsee what would happen next, or how concrete things really are. The only thing that I disliked about this book was that at the end there was a cliffhanger and the reader doesn't know what happens to the characters. Aside from that The Giver is a great book that I would recommend to anyone.
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Summary: An excellent book, I can't even begin to describe it.
Review: The Giver was an extraordinary book of a boy named Jonas and how he learned much from memories of the past. Jonas lives in a perfect community where everyone is the same and there is a guarantee for a safe life. Your jobs are picked for you, as well as your spouse, dwelling and children. Jonas was selected at a special ceremony to be the receiver of memory. What this title means is that Jonas receives memories of the past in order to advise the councel on important decisions. From these memories Jonas learns of different times when things weren't so perfect. And he decides that he must try to make the world like that again.
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Summary: An adventurous thriller
Review: The Giver was an extraordinary novel if you like fictional but adventurous books. Here is a little about this book. Jonas is a little boy who frequently sees a man by the name of THE GIVER and Jonas finds out about the world and wants to explore it to see for hisself. Jonas takes hemself and his baby brother GABE to run away and find out what the world is like. If you want to learn more read the book.
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Summary: It makes you appreciate today!
Review: The Giver was an extremely good book. It portrayed a town that was controlled by their government of elders. The people didn't care that they were controlled because that's all they ever knew. In the book a boy, Jonas, gets chosen to recieve the memories of a time forgotten by most. That was a choice that the elders of the town made for him. They expected him to be strong and help the town by being the all knowing. Nobody could see color except Jonas and the reciever before him. Color, rain, snow, the sun, weather, the knowledge of happiness, pleasure, and pain was lost to this town. They had conformed to 'sameness',as they say in the book. The memories were lost and only passed on from one person to one other. This process that Jonas went through to recieve the memories was and example of "shared remembrance". It is important to all people and none should be denied of that remembrance. It carries on culture, difference, and the power to chose. It gives people their own minds and although that might be dangerous it is not anyone's place to chose for them. Jonas agrees with this idea and runs away from the isolated town. This would be an appropriate book for folklore study because it shows that no matter how impossible the idea of something is, that if you believe in it then it may come true. It also shows that people can make up their own minds if they have the right knowledge. If you don't have the right knowledge then you become dependent on what others tell you. In the world of unexplained phenomenon you need to share knowledge of what you know and remember or you might make a decision under false pretences. Here comes another example of "shared remembrance". Folklore is a difficult subject and this book sets an example for the people in the field of study for folklore. It sets an example by showing determination in what you believe. If you are determined then you can help make people understand you and your view on things.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver was an extremely good book. Lois Lowry has potrayed the struggle in Jonas's life excellently. At the same time Lowry adds some parts to smile at, so the story will not be a full drama. Many parts also are hair raising and suspenseful. By far, I would say the Lois Lowry has written this book very well, with a surprise ending and all. Although, it is not fully appropriate for children under 8 or 9. I would recommend it to those who are above 8 or 9 years old. It was the best book I've ever read, and I plan to read more of her books. Once again, The Giver was an excellent book, with an excellent author.
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Summary: To Williams
Review: The Giver was an extrordinary book that opened up my imagination, and even though I had to read it for language arts I'm glad I did. All through this book I discovered things as if I was Jonas trying to piece things togther. It was written well with depth and understanding. It isn't just a book about a boy in a strange society; It's a book connecting to our daily lives and controversies happening right now. This is a very good book!
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Summary: This review looks at life in this situation.
Review: The Giver was an interesting book. At first the book was a little hard to follow. It was difficult adjusting to the way life was described. Imagining life without color is a stretch. Color is in everything we do, everything we see, and everything we feel. Why would anyone want to go to "Sameness"? Why would anyone want to live life with no color or choices? Sure life would probably be a lot less difficult, but it would be so plain. Not being able to really choose a career. Not being able to choose a spouse or children would be a horrible existence. That is one of the joys in life; choosing the one person that you would want to spend the rest of your life with, the one person you want to see every day and make so much a part of your life that you are willing to combine two separate lives to make a completely new one. Another joy in life is difference. The differences in landscapes and weather, food and music are vital additions to life. Depending on where someone lives effects their choices of activities, food, and culture. Without these everything and everyone is the same. In The Giver nothing was different. No one could choose who they were going to marry or what they "are going to be when they grew up". A definition of life is "the sequence of physical and mental experiences that make up the existence of an individual". Without differences there is no life and without life there is nothing. The people in The Giver weren't really living, they were just wandering around in a boring existence that would seem to go on forever and was controlled by beings that led no lives themselves. "Every man dies, but not every man really lives."* * Braveheart
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