The Giver

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Summary: Courtney E. VHS Review, MHS
Review: This book was a great read. I read this book once in fifth grade, and again this year. While thinking into the book i realized that The Giver is a great example of how society today is starting to mesh together. Everything seems the same. People are starting to look alike, dress alike, sound alike and even act alike. Shared memories are important to any and every culture. Parents and grandparents pass down stories of their past to their children, who will pass their stories on. This ritual has been going on since the beginning of time, and will continue forever.

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Summary: Book Lover's Review
Review: This book was a portrait made of words depicting a society controlled totally by humans. This community had everything one could want or need and gave purpose to all the lives existing there. There were no human needs unmet. Or were there? How can we exist in a world without love? This book is a wonderful tool to show children why it is so important that humans are individuals. It is important to have our own opinions and to create a balance among our ideas. The ideal world champions diversity, not sameness.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: This book was a real thought provker. The futuristic society Lowry portrays has tons of rules and regulations that cripple the average persons imagination and lust for change. The story is excelent and the points brought up can really change one's preception on society.

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Summary: Review for high school class
Review: This book was a very interesting one that paints the picture of a community with no color, no hills, no hurt; just sameness. It made me think of all of the differences that are around now and how different cultures record them and their mistakes for the future to learn from them. In this culture that Lowry has created in the book they record them in a fascinating way . With one person that unlike the others has to be responsible for all of the previous horrors along with the joys that none of the others get to experience. Another thing they never get to experience is making any real choices. They lack the right to choose their jobs and women . It is a reflection on today's society about those choices and how because of the high divorce and unemployment rates if people did have a board researching and deciding for them that it might work a little better. It might work a little better but, the only problem with this utopia is that when you take away people's choices you take away their freedom and with out freedom you can't have a utopia. This community however is happy with these choices that have been made for them and that is because they never knew the alternative. No color, no hills, no hurt, and no death. In the book they take away the concept of death and replace it with a concept of release. Most cultures have their own ways of dealing with death and this one just camouflages it. So when all of these things become clear to the main character he leaves and by doing that forces the others to bear the load of history which had been alone on he and the Giver's shoulders. The book ends with out telling what has happened where he left from. It leaves that for the reader's imagination to kick in and think about what they are going to do know after the failure of two Receivers. This obviously was the weak link in there chain so maybe next they go back to writing pictures on the wall...

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Summary: Well written, but...
Review: This book was a well written book, I think, but I did not enjoy reading it. It did not hold my attention very much and I found that the storyline changed a lot. I would not recommend this for anyone under 14.

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Summary: It makes you appreciate today
Review: This book was a wonderful experience. It made me enjoy living and enjoy or appreciate the fact that I have the power to chose and the gift of feeling and seeing color. In this book a boy named Jonas is chosen by his government of elders to be the all knowing reciever. It will be his life long duty to know all pain and suffering that has happened but also know all happiness,love and joy that the world can offer. He recieves the memories from the previous reciever, now the giver, and together they portray shared remembrence. Through them they keep the memories of the past alive and that is very important to all people and things. His new found knowledge forces him to lose his innocence that the town he grew up in offered. The town protected everyone in the town from all pain,hunger, and fear. But at the same time they did not enjoy love, happiness, and could not see color. Towards the end he leaves the town with a little baby named Gabriel because he knew too much and couldn't stay in the town of sameness. He also did not want them to kill the baby which they were going to do. So The giver stayed to help the town and Jonas and Gabriel went off on their own with another family. This book opens your eyes to the world and makes you value all you have.

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Summary: The giver
Review: This book was a wonderful story of the future when we have tchnologie to control everything and is one of the best plot that i have read this year. The giver is the perfect book for mid age teens. Louis Lowry does agreat and good job of writing this plot and the setting is so awesome i think that is a cool setting. The future in the story is very sellf explanitory and same with the plot. I Wwould just like to say this is a great book that my middle school class has read this year.

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Summary: I loved this book!
Review: This book was about a boy who becomesa reciver of pain and happiness in a world where there is none.

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Summary: The Perfect, but not so perfect town
Review: This book was about a town where you were assigned a job. At the cerimony of the twelve you were assigned your job. Some people were painters, teachers and a very special job was given to a boy. He was the reciever of memeory. This job was painful but special. It was a honor to recieve this title. The past "giver" had to transmit the memories down. I enjoyed this book very much.. be sure to read the end!

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Summary: the best i ever read
Review: this book was allright. but i didn't understand like why did the world change frokm regular to utopia and what went a way first like color or feelings. also what happend to Jonas and Gaberal. did they die or did they. the best person in the book was the old man beacuse he was the only one knew what was going on the world and no one else knew. i woould reccomend this book to any one who lilke sci fiction. it is a great book to read on your own.