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Summary: This book was an outstanding book that was easy to follow.
Review: The Giver was an outstanding book. The characters were well described and the plot was well written. This book keeps you reading and you never want to stop. This was one of the best books I have ever read!
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Summary: The Giver was a good, fictional book that I enjoyed.
Review: The Giver was an outstanding novel written by Lois Lowry. It's about a youth named Jonas, who lives in a blank, cruel world with no feelings or color. He is selected to become the new receivor of memory and gets to enjoy all the memories of the past. The memories give him color, feelings, and the ability to express himself. He thinks of his world being unfair because he and his master are the only ones who have color, feelings, and the knowledge of the past. Jonas and the Giver plan an escape that will release Jonas's memories into the community. A problem comes up and Jonas is forced to disobey his master and escape before his master gives him the strength he might need. He knows of nothing that lies ahead, and has no sure idea how to survive. Will he find elsewhere, or will he die in trying?
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Summary: The Giver Review
Review: The Giver was kind of hard to understand in some parts. The community they live in is very different compared to ours! I think you should read this book.
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Summary: Extraordinary
Review: The Giver was my first and only (so obviously favorite) book of Lois Lowry's. In the beginning, the world is far into the future. They have all forgotten their past and there is a srtict order of life. But one boy seems to be different from the other children. This boy sees beond what others can. He has a gift to become the next receiver of the past. It starts out as fun and games but there seems to be a lot more than that to the past. Soon he begins to see color instead of the average gray. He soon feels pain where there was none before. He even realizes some of his favorite games as a child were horrific battles in the past. He soon can't take much more and creates a plan with the Giver of information. Lois Lowry was really able to capture my imagination with this book and it remains one of my favorite of all time. And the end just keeps you guessing for more. More that I even wrote an ending for myself. This is a wonderful book thougha tad short and I recommend it to a Lowry fan or any one who likes a good fiction.
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Summary: Extrodinary!
Review: The Giver was one of the best books that I have ever read.I had to read the book for school and at first I thought it would be very boring because normally, school books are. The Giver made me see things in a whole new perspective. Jonas' world is one without weather, feelings, color, animals or diseases. Nobody ever feels pain or experiences bad weather. Jonas realises this when he becomes the receiver of memory. He starts to see the Giver who transfers memories over to Jonas. Memories about color, kittens, Christmas, warefare and more. For the first time, Jonas sees how limited his community is and becomes very angry. He cannot understand why nobody can experience colors or choice. Everything is done for them, including their jobs and who they marry.
Lois Lowry writes the most extrodinary and breathetaking book I have ever read. I urge any and everyone to pick up this amazing book. It will definitely be worth your while.
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Summary: Dark, sick, demented & depressing !
Review: The Giver was one of the most dark, sick, demented & depressing books I've ever read!
It's amazing to me that the publishers would think this type of book would be suitable for "young readers." It was unnerving to read about the euthanasia of infants in the story and also the suicide of a little girl was just plain sick! I was very upset that this was required reading for my twelve-year-old son. I wish authors and publishers will come to realize that you don't have to have darkness and death in a book to provoke thought and emotion. Books with a light subject matter can be just as entertaining! Overall if this book was written for an adult audience I wouldn't have a problem with it. However being that it was targeted towards youths, it was totally inappropriate!
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Summary: It was the most interesting book that I have read yet!
Review: The Giver was one of the most interesting books to read. It was very easy to read, and I would really recommend it to people of all ages. These people lived in a world where there were restrictions on practically everything. Even left over food was to be recycled. But for a community that was to be so perfect, well I've got my own response. When Jonas was picked to be the new reciever he was very scared because he really did not know what to think. Jonas and the Giver developed a friendship that could last forever. But I believe that the best thing that could ever happen to him was to just plain and simply leave his home. But what really got to me was the fact of how they decieved others of what being released really meant. The fact that they killed the lighter of the twins just because there could not be two of them was one of the most cruelest things yet. But in a so called perfect society I believe things like that would happen every day. It's just the only two people who knew what feelings where just couldn't take it anymore. Jonas left and the Giver had been living ten years of grief because his only daughter Rosemary had wanted to be realeased. So if you have an hour or so to spare this book would be a great one for you to read. Or if you were interested in what you might think the future would be like in another 100 years I believe this would give you some insight.
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Summary: The Giver -The Best Book!!
Review: The giver was probally the best book. It is about a young boy named Jonas who is going to be the reciever. Jonas's world is plain. There is no color, differences, and you are assigned a job when you are 12. There is no birthdays or holidays. Their only holiday is when the anouncer says it is an uninspected holiday. It means that you do not have to go to school, work, or no traning hours. When Jonas goes to the Annex room everyday he gets memorys from long ago. You should read this book! I do not want to tell you any more!!
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Summary: this book was not bad, but not good either
Review: The giver was quite intresting at times but at others it had way too much explaning. After one or two times of someone explaining how Jonas felt, you just want them to shut up! I also believe that this book had a slow start, and that ,for me, isn't very helpful when trying to get into the book. I think that younger people wouldn't have a clue to what The Giver is about, so older people, such as fifth and sixth graders, should read this book. The reason i rated this book a three star book is just for that reason. I think it was too complicated for younger people and too boring for older people. This is just one of those books you have to read at just the right age to fully enjoy it.
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Summary: The Best Book Ever
Review: The Giver was the best book ever! Jonas, the main character, lives in a Utopian society where everything is perfect and his life is all well until he becomes "a twelve" and he is given the honor of upholding all of the community memories. The Giver passes good and horrible memories to Jonas, that he will have to bear for the rest of his life. Jonas becomes scared and he doesn't know what to do. The Giver helps Jonas and throughout the book they become very close friends. This book always keeps you interested, and you won't want to put it down!
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