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Summary: You will find a part of yourself in this book.
Review: This book is amazing. It takes you on a ride through a futuristic world of imagination. In reading it you will feel the pain and confusuion of this boy and how his life will never be the same. If you read this book I promise you will never forget it!
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Summary: Amazing Book for Middle Schoolers and Adults!
Review: This book is amazing. The main character, Jonas is faced with some very important decisions to make. His experience mirrors that which many young people go through. Though his experience and world is fictional, he has to make very real decisions based on exposure to the truths and harsh realities that life can bring.For Lowry's treatment of that issue alone, I think that "The Giver" is worth picking up for ANYone!!!
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Summary: wow
Review: This book is an excellent book for people of all ages. It is about one boys struggle to find out the true meaning of life. Filled with many triumphs and defeats.
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Summary: A wonderful, thought-provoking book
Review: This book is an incredible page-turner that makes one appreciate the darker aspects of life. The seemingly utopian world that Jonas inhabits is in fact a cover for a multitude of shocking secrets that lie below the surface, such as "realeasing" any child that is not perfect. The book's ending makes the reader think and offers many possibilities for the future. I recommend the book to readers of all ages.
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Summary: Jason Barcus's review of The Giver
Review: This book is an interesting story. It is called The Giver.Although
I don't like to read, this story is great for anyone who likes to
read. I do recimend this book The Giver.
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Summary: Best book I have ever read.
Review: This book is an unbelievable book of how our society is headed if we don'tclean up our act. If you do not read this book you are missing probably a life changing story.
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Summary: 5-STARS!
Review: This book is awesome and teaches you a lot of life lessons. I read it in summerschool and I could hardly put it down. So I read it before class goes over the book. It talked about futuristic Perfect world. No pains, no worries. Each people received certain role which is life long assiment from the elders. Main character, Jonas is assigned as a reciever who recieved all the memories the giver had. As Jonas get more and more memories, he realized his society isn't perfect at all. Then he ran away to the Elsewhere. As the story goes on though, I realized a world with no difference and no choices is not perfect at all.
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Summary: Awesome book to read
Review: This book is awesome to read when you are bored or when you just feel like reading. I really enjoyed this book because it talks about how the future society isnt perfect even though they try to perfect it and how feeling of pain and sufferage needs to be there even though they block it. Great book to read, you should definately get it.
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Summary: Horrible, horrible book - NOT FOR CHILDREN!!!
Review: This book is awful. The author, Lois Lowry, is gifted, and what others have written about her writing is true - she is good at conveying degrees of pain and pleasure, astounding at introducing a concept as if the reader has never come across it before (color, music, etc.). The problem is Lowry's agenda, maybe only one an adult could see. The deep dark secret of Jonas' community is euthanasia - unwanted or unfeasible babies and the extremely aged and fragile are injected with death-inducing drugs. This seems to be a veiled attempt to poison the impressionable reader against abortion and the right-to-die, by playing on his/her emotions - Jonas is so stunned by what he sees his "father" do to a baby that he refuses to go home, and runs away from the community. (...)
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Summary: It's really differnt
Review: This book is based on a community that is totally differnt than a realistic community. Read about Jonas, Asher, The Giver and the rest of the community. It's a great book.
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