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Summary: A must read book on a perfect society!
Review: The Giver would be a great book to read if you wanted to get a sense of what it would be like to live in a perfect society and compare it to how our society is today. Jonas, the main character of the story, lives in a community where everyone is presumed to be perfect and no freedom of expression was allowed. These people had no understanding of how it would be to feel love, pain, or happiness. This community was controlled and assigned by a group of elders. This has reflected on our society today since now we have the media and politicians trying to govern our lives. We have laws to obey, and yes we may decide to act on illegal actions,yet there are always consequences that we have to face. We might not realize this but this has reflected and exists in our society today.
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Summary: a grate book to read
Review: The Giver written by Lois Lowry is a very well thought out book.I gave this book five stars because its suspenceful threw the entire book and makes you want to keep reading. I have read this book sevral times and it has never gottin to the point where I was bored with it.
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Summary: a grate book to read
Review: The Giver written by Lois Lowry is a very well thought outbook.I gave this book five stars because its suspenceful threw theentire book and makes you want to keep reading. I have read this book sevral times and it has never gottin to the point where I was bored with it.
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Summary: Parallelism between "The Matrix" and "The Giver"
Review: The Giver written by Lois Lowry is a well written book.
Lois Lowry choose a simple writing style, so everyone can understand it. The book is about a boy who lives in a community where everything is the same. Jonas was selected by the comity of the elders for the most honored job of the community. Lois Lowry wants to show the reader how the way of life could be different if everything is same. I think it is a good book because she proposes the reader to think of his own life, after reading the book. It is written like a science fiction story which seams to be very unrealistically. So at the end of the book I thought that there is a parallelism between 'The Matrix' and 'The Giver'. There are many agreements in this two stories because of the parallelism world in 'The Matrix' there are also Machines which have the control of the whole population, they look for the right way of how the people live.
In 'The Giver' there is near the same with the memories. So if the reader is thinking of the difference of his own way of life and of the way of life which Jonas is living it could be interesting.
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Summary: not good, not bad...
Review: The Giver written by Lois Lowry is about society and humanity. The main role is played by Jonas who lives in a community with „Sameness". Jonas thinks that he lives in a normal world and that he has a normal life in the community until his 12th birthday when he becomes a Receiver of Memories. As a Receiver of Memories he receives memories which are transmitted by the Giver. These memories contain feelings or colours. After that Jonas recognizes that the community is controlled and that everybody has to obey the rules. Nobody in the community knows what feelings or colours are, except Jonas. He cannot bear the situation that nobody has an individuality in the Community and that is the reason why he escapes in the end. You can clearly see Jonas changing in the book. At the beginning he is happy and satisfied with his life, but trough receiving memories he changes and becomes more critical and more complex. The message of this Text is to make readers aware of the world they live in. I think everybody has a right to be individual and free. And everybody can decide for himself and nobody should change this. I read the Giver only once. The themes in the Giver are interesting, but the end does not meet my expectations. Because I would like to Know what happens with Jonas in the end, when he is in front of the house. This open ending does not say something about this. Because of this I give only 3 STARS.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver written by Lois Lowry is based on a powerful and provacative novel, centered around the theme of Eutopia. The movie, Pleasantville comes to mind when I think of this book. In both stories, the characters arre placed in the same perfect setting. The characters live in a black and white world. Eventually color is discovered when they become aware of deep emotions. In The Giver, Lowry forces readers to bring own thoughts into play by her descriptive writing. I could see the world he wsa painting from the very beginning. "They moistened a little. The warmth spread, extending across his shoulders, up his neck, onto the side of hos face. He could feel it through his clothed parts, too: a pleasant, all-over sensation; and when he licked his lips this time, the air was hot and heavy." The characters she created were adventurous and amazingly believable. The main character, Jonas, is a young boy who lives in a perfect set world wwith no pain suffering love or fear. Everone has their own assigned role. He is assigned a special role, The Giver, when he turns twelve. The Giver is very important role becuase he keeps the whole community intact by holding memories; extreme pain to eternal bliss. While I read this book I discoverd how important it is to experience suffering, grieving and complete happiness. The Giver is a book recommended that everybody should read. It gives an escape from reality that everybody should endure.
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Summary: The Giver written by Louis Lowry is an exellent book.
Review: The Giver written by Lois Lowry is very good. Jonas lives in a society where everyone is the same. A society where you get chosen to do a certain job. Jonas is chosen the greatest of all assignments. The Giver gives Jonas memories that make Jonas go through hard times. This drives Jonas to leave and find out what a real society is like. Lois Lowry's treatment of the story keeps you on your feet. She makes you get involved with the characters with her fantastic and unique way. I think this book is great for kids of grades 5-9. This book is not only good for kids but is an exellent book.I reccomend this book to anyone who loves great books.
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Summary: The Giver's a great book relating to folklore.
Review: The Giver's a great book relating to folklore. This book, written by Lois Lowry, is about everyone being the same, with one man remembering all the things since... well, they don't say, but you get the impression of a very long time ago. Jonas helps this man out, to release these stored memories and return them to the people, so they'd "remember" such things as colors and originality. The idea was sort of taken to an extreme, but memories and passing them down is an important part of all cultures. This is where folklore comes in. Folklore consists of tales passed down from earlier generations. Stories that are fun to hear. Stories that scare the pants off you. Stories that grip you and don't ever let you go, or let you forget. And they're made to be so. Why would anyone bother sharing such tales, only for them to be forgotten the next day? They'd be useless. So they have worked these tales into their culture, wrapped their grain of truth up in layers of comedy, horror, or whatever best suits it, and fed it to their children, so that they might further pass it on. This book shows this all, and what would happen if it didn't exist. Yes, it's sort of extremist, but it's a goood read. Definitly something that'll make you thankful for your own culture's tales and folklore. And remember, just because it's folklore, doesn't mean it was never real. ~Mike Mawhinney~
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Summary: This is a wonderful book,it should be read all over the U.S
Review: The Giver, a book I read over the summer, was based on a young boy named Jonas who worked very hard to accomplish the goals he had ahead of him. One goal he had to achieve was the goal The Giver assigned to him. This goal was called the reciever of memorie. At first, Jonas thought he would never be the receiver of memorie. After all, it does seem like a hard job. Although he thought that it was hard, he found it easy and exciting.
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Summary: This book is the best Young Adult Reader's book of the 90's
Review: The Giver, a book with about as many honors as a as Donovan Bailey is simply out of this world. An ingenious novel written by Lois Lowry elevates Young Adult reading to a new level. I first heard about it through the Y.R.C.A. awards ( Young Reader's Choice Awards). My Grade 5 friends and I went nuts when we started to read it. Soon we couldn't stop and were reading to 11:30 on schooldays. If I were to sum up this book in a few words I would call it " The Ultimate Reading Experience". I loved the book s
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