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The Giver

The Giver

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Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Giver Review
Review: The Giver, by Lois Lowry, was an excellent book. It gave a lot of insight into what the world would be like if there was no love, and a rule and role for everyone in the community. The main character, Jonas, is a young boy at the age of 12. He is a typical boy, who loves to play with his friends, and is very bored of school. When he gets chosen for his specific job in the community at the Ceremony of Twelve, it was no surprise. Jonas's best friend, Asher, is a very loveable, carefree character; so much so that it almost makes the reader sorry for him because he cannot love. I would recommend this book to people of all ages.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Giver was a great book!
Review: The Giver, by Louis Lowry was a great book. It takes place where there are no feelings, colors or differences. Jonas is the main character, and he is selected to be the new Reciever of Memory. This job is very important because there is only one in the whole community. He meets the current Reciever and he calls him the Giver. The Giver transmits memorys that the communtity has never recieved. This was a really good book and I would recomend it to anyone who wants to broaden yourthoughts about different life styles.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Whant something that'll make ya think?
Review: The Giver, definitely qualifies as one the better books I've read. It gives a very strange twist on an explanation for our societies imperfections. Though the novel is never associated with a specific time period, it is a good implication to the way things could be later on. I'm not a huge fan of Sci-Fi literature, but when you can finish a book in less than a day, you know you've found a good one!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: This is a great book for exploring minds!!
Review: The Giver, is a great book for 5th-8th graders, written by Lowes Lowery. Jonas the main character of this book lives in a diffrent and difficult community. When he gets his Assignment, or job, he gets the most important job of all. If yuo are wondering which job he gets find out by buying this book today at your local bookstore!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: The Wonderous Book by Lois Lowery
Review: The Giver, is a great book, about a twelve year old boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a utopian society where everyday activates are all characterized by sameness. In the community there is no such thing as pain and there is no fear, no hunger, and no war. In a community empowered by The Elders, Jonas is assigned to be the next Receiver. The Receiver's job is to receive ancient memories of old civilizations from The Giver. The memories include war, pain, hurt, hunger, and love. The memories of these feelings have never been experienced before by Jonas. Jonas divises a plot to escape the community and travel to a place where "real" life exists. The Giver is a great book that will keep your attention. It is hard to understand a world without these feelings, but Lois Lowery does a great job illustrating what it would be like. She also gives you a greater appreciation of the feelings that we experience in life.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: ~~~The Giva~~~
Review: The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is not only a strange but an interesting novel.
It is based on the theme on Utopia. To Jonas' world it is Utopia, but to us there are many flaws. One is "Release". Why should a utopian world want to kill because two people look alike or they are handicapped? Everything is planned out for everyone, which means no choices and no freedom. When Jonas is selected to be the "Receiver of Memory", the holder of the past, he realizes that the world he is living in is not perfect after all. Even though the past held pain and sorrow, there is unforgettable love to even it out. So Jonas decides to run away with Gabe for a better, more exciting life in "Elsewhre". On his way there, Jonas begins to see the beauty in life. The life that we are living in now. Lois Lowry is trying to convey an important message through this novel. You don't need to be perfect to succeed. In fact, being perfect is not a good thing. This is a very well written and unique novel.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~My Giver Review~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Review: The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is not only a strange but an interesting novel.
It is based on the theme on Utopia. To Jonas¡¯ world it is Utopia, but to us there are many flaws. One is ¡°Release¡±. Why should a utopian world want to kill because two people look alike or they are handicapped? Everything is planned out for everyone, which means no choices and no freedom. When Jonas is selected to be the ¡°Receiver of Memory¡±, the holder of the past, he realizes that the world he is living in is not perfect after all. Even though the past held pain and sorrow, there is unforgettable love to even it out. So Jonas decides to run away with Gabe for a better, more exciting life in ¡°Elsewhre¡±. On his way there, Jonas begins to see the beauty in life. The life that we are living in now. Lois Lowry is trying to convey an important message through this novel. You don¡¯t need to be perfect to succeed. In fact, being perfect is not a good thing. This is a very well written and unique novel.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A Utopian Society
Review: The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, takes the reader into a different world, very different then what we currently see ourselves in today. Actually, imagine our world without any surprises or different circumstances. A life lived the same way, everday. Instead of picking what you want to be in life, the task is given to you. Jonas, the main character, lives this utopian lifestyle at the age of eleven when the book starts out. At the age of twelve he recieves his assignment or job. Except he recieves a very rare and honorable position. Scared and confused, he recieves his "training" for his new "selected" occupation and takes on a new lifestyle that others in his community are lacking. A real world!

I wasn't able to read this book in school because of the english courses I was taking. Thankfully I went back and read these books in my free time, for fun. The Giver is a great and very different read. I highly recommend it.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A very interesting, fast paced book.
Review: The Giver,a fiction novel, was written by Lois Lowery. The main charcter is Jonas. There is never weather bacause of climate control. They have a very strickt society and rules. In this book , Lois Lowery was vey constient, she kept the same conflict and didn't change everything alot. I think this is a apporiate for sixth graders not older or younger. This book was very interesting and fast paced.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: a great book
Review: The Giver,by Lois Lowry I thought was a great book.It is is about a boy named Jonas who is chosen to be a reciever of memory at an age ceromony.Jonas is trained by the giver to have memories.They are the only two that can have memories also.but when Jonas finds out a terrible secret he uses his memories to his advantage.
The four main characters are the giver, Jonas, Gabe and Jonas's father.I think the theme of this book is that feelings are more important than order and samenass.Witch is a good lesson for kids to learn.If they did not learn it they wold be bossy and worried about everything being fair.
I thought this book was a really good book and I would reccomend this book to people a much a posible.The thing I like most about this book is the ending.I liked it because it was mostly up to us to decide what happened.So in conlusion I really liked this book and if you like good books you will too!


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