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Summary: This book is exciting and riviting.
Review: The Giver,by Louis Lowry, is about a community wherre there isn't any violence, famine, sickness, or crime. In the community where a twelve year old boy named Jonas lives, the family units are picked out, you don't have any thoughts, and when you dream, they give you a pill to help make it go away. In the community, the career you do is chosen for you. I sort of liked and disliked this book because of how people were being controlled by a council and not having any thoughts and having to control their dreams by taking pills. Also, people are forced to have careers that best suit them. But this is what I like about this book. When you get chosen for your career, you picked for a specific career by the council watching over you and picking out your career when the ceremony occurs for the career you get.
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Summary: An Unusual World
Review: The Giver,in my opinion,was a great book.It made you think,if society keeped us from feeling pain,sorrow,or rage would the world still have certain issues.If you have not read The Giver,it's about a boy named Jonas that lives in a world where every choice wasn't your own, where jobs were assigned and mates were given. Jonas was assigned to be the receiver, the only position you could feel emotions, such as love and hate. He is capable of receiving memories of joyous times and tragic moments. A prisonner is his own town Jonas finally understand there is more to life than past memories, there is color, emotions and people of different worlds. This kind of society had it's advantages as well as it's disadvantages. Seriously I would prefer that small town.
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Summary: the giver- a review
Review: The Giver-a book dealing with the possible development of societies searching for perfection.
Jonas, a twelve year old boy, lives in such a community,whose only aim is to achieve sameness and free its citizens of wrong decisions.Throughout his development as a "Receiver Of Memory" he finds out the faults and mistakes of the system.
Lois Lowry illustrates Jonas`development very carefully and it seems as if she actually once lived in that community.The book does never seem exaggerated, it only descibes a possible way our lifes could one time look like.
She includes criticism in cloning,A.I. and change of DNA in "The Giver". It is not only a science-fiction book,but also a scream for showing more feelings in our computer-ruled society of today.
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Summary: The Giver: in Review from the eyes of a 6th grader
Review: The Giver... um how do I start? Well my teacher assinged us books to read and i was assigned this one. When i first got this i didnt think it would be that good but i soon leared wrong. Lois Lowery is the best author and like all the other books she has written they keep you guessing. This book is so good you cant stop reading.It really teaches that you dont really know things til you live them. it is ssooooooooo good it really is a story of determineation and love. So i strongly advise you to read this!!!!!!!!
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver: A book review by Jochen and Waldemar The novel 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry is about a community in the future and a small boy who wants to escape from there. There were concrete attributes which he could not abide after he had not take drugs (pills against pain) like everybody else there.
We liked the story 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry.
To tell the truth we have to confess that on some parts of the story, the content was a bit boring. But all in all the entire book was imaginative. The mixture of science fiction and fantasy was new to us. With all that fantasy you could reconstruct it. You could imagine that the society today could develop to the society in the book. The book is maybe a alert the people in our world. The people want to have everything perfect today and you can see what might happen if everything seems to be perfect. The main character Jonas was the only one who saw the problem of the community in which he lived, and wanted to have a world in which nothing is perfect but a society with feelings like love. It shows us how important feelings are and that we have to respect and to take care of them.
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Summary: book review on 'THE GIVER'
Review: THE GIVER: A book review by Stephan and Dominik We read the book 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry with our English teacher at Schwalmgymnasium (senior high school) in Treysa, Germany.
We reacted differently. We think it is too unreal but also very exciting. While reading the story you don't know what happens next, there are many surprises in the story. The idea to that story is very good but someway very silly. In this perfect world there is no pain and no feelings like love or something else. We think this world is very boring because everything is planned and you aren't allowed to choose your partner or your job. Something good is that there is no war. But in the community there are no colours, no weather, no cars and even no real families. Everything seems as a real world but it isn't because they live a lie. They can't carry their own life in their own hands, the Elders control everything.
The book has an open end which makes the reader think.
We think that the end is too abrupt. While reading you will note that it is a typical science-fiction book.
If you are interested in science-fiction books this book is OK for you.
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Summary: The Giver; a literary masterpiece
Review: THE GIVER
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This literary masterpiece received many awards, including the "1994 Newberry Medal" and "A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year." Author Lois Lowry did a marvelous job interpreting a life without color, happiness, pain and love. The Giver proved to the world that Lois Lowry is an exemplary, inspiring, and prodigious writer. Jonas is a child that resides in a world not affected by pain, but yet lacks the feelings of warmth and happiness. When Jonas turns 12, he and the other children of his "Grade" receive the jobs they will work in the rest of their lives. While most children get chosen to work in jobs such as taking care of the elderly, Jonas gets chosen to fill in the shoes of the Giver. The Giver is the only man in the town that holds memories of intangible objects we see and express. Now the former "Giver" shall pass on his knowledge to Jonas. Will he not be able to take on the intensity and the transition of the life he will be entering, or will he learn the truth, and realize that even expressing pain, is better than expressing nothing. I encourage the reader of this review to fill your mind with the great lessons and passages this book has to offer, or read her other books, such as A Summer to Die or Find a stranger, say goodbye.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: The Giver
By Lois Lowry The Giver is a fantasy novel by Lois Lowry. The setting is a fantasy utopia, where every family unit has a mom, a dad, a son and a daughter. Everyone has a job chosen by the elders set to the recipient's mental, emotional and physical health. Jonas, the main character, is growing up with a group of kids the same age as he is. On the day Jonas' group turns 12, they get their "assignments" which is their lifelong job. Jonas gets a very special job. He is to be the "Receiver of Memory."
In the utopia Jonas lives in, people don't want to have the burden of war, hate, pain and love, but they also give up sunshine, snow, color and music. They do not simply give the memories up. They give them to the "receiver." The "receiver" can aid the elders in decisions they have not faced before. When Jonas becomes the "receiver" he learns of the true nature of life and death and how many bad things his family and friends are trained to do, but not think badly about. When the old receiver, named The Giver by Jonas, transfer memories to Jonas, it is with almost psychic power. Jonas gets to live these old memories with all the senses he has. He actually feels like he is reliving terrible past events. He finds out terrible things. When Jonas learns of the worst things, he decides he can no longer live in this community. He decides he must leave and he takes with him the one person he has grown to love and can't bear to abandon that person to what fate has in store for them if left in the community.
The book is very detailed about the community and its people. You actually begin to enjoy watching them come to life, and when you begin to learn things about them, you feel angry. Lois Lowry does a great job relating Jonas feelings of anguish and betrayal as he makes one of the hardest decisions in his life. The climax is very good and you are left with idea that maybe a couple of things could have happened, and you need to decide what kind of person you are to end the book for yourself. And added benefit is that it is not a very hard read and anyone above the 4th grade should easily be able to read it. I highly recommend the book to anyone who likes to read fantasy novels.
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Summary: The Reciver Of Memory
Review: The Giver
By: Lois Lowry
Reviewed by: W. Horng
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This book is about a young boy who, suprisingly, got the most important and rare job, the Reciever of Memory. At the Ceremony of Twelve, every twleve year old boys and girls get the job of their life. They usually get the job that they wanted the most. Jonas was called on last and was announced the Reciver of Memory. The Receiver's job is to store all of the memory of a person including pain, love, hate, and etc. Jonas's townspeople doesn't have any feelings and their life are always predictable.
I like this book because it has adventures and the part about a person keeping all of the memory that no one else has. Tht's pretty cool, however, then you'll have to be a loner of some kind because you can't share any of your memory and you can't talk to your parents about it either. The other trouble of being a reciver of Memory is the bad memories that are like nightmares! I wouldn't want to be a Reciver because I want to share my feelings with my family and I can not hide them to myself.
My favorite part of the book is when Jonas got his first happy memory. The Reciver all get a set of rules. Guess what, in one of the rules, the Reciver can lie to anybody if he has to, he can even lie to his parents! "He had never, within his memory, been tempted to lie." That's what Jonas thought about lying to people. After a few more trainings, Jonas is starting to see colors. The first color that Jonas saw was red. Jonas loved every class going to the House of the Old and getting a new and happy memory, until now....
That's when the part that I dislike comes up. The memories are not all good, there are always some bad ones. The first bad memory that the Giver gave to Jonas was the pain of sunburn, then the pain of falling down, breaking your leg,and scraping your face against jagged egdes of ice. This is Jonas's feelings when he first got the pain of breaking a leg: "He sat, and looked at his own leg, where it lay stright on the bed, unbroken. The brutal slice of pain was gone. But the leg ached horribly, still, and his face felt raw." If you think that's overwhelming, wait until Jonas first got the memory of war. The experience was frightning, people running for their lives, orphans crying over their family member's death, and soldiers dying at war. Now that's overwhelming for me. Think about it, you even have to carry that memory around you for the rest of your life until you transfer your memory to a new Reciver of Memory.
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Summary: THe Giver
Review: The Giver
This is a book that is colorfully written by Lois Lowry. This is a science fiction book that has a lot of ambition of what a perfect community would be like. I think that this one of the best books that I have read in a long time.
This science fiction book is focus around the main character (Jonas). Jonas a t Age 12 gets the privilege of the receiver of Memory. His teacher is an elderly man by the name of The Giver. The Giver is the Receiver of Memory before him. During his training he is given the memories of the past world. He alone knows what is to feel pain, fear, hunger, and many other emotions. When he se's his father do some thing of complete horror to him he decides that he can't stay in the community much longer. So he runs away with the help of The Giver.
This book is one book that you could read over and over again. It is even easy enough for a 10 year old to read. But in the end this is a good book.
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