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Summary: Thought Provoking
Review: This book was very interesting with a lot of questions you would
want to ask the author.This book was mainly about a community that has no life.Everyone there spoke the same and never questioned anyone about why was there was no life.One day a 12 year old kid named Jonas worked with an old guy called the Giver.The Giver was very wise.He taught Jonas about life and what it means...This book,I think was well organized with great detail.You should read this book to understand what I am talking about.When I read this book it made me understand true meaning to life.As a 12 year old reader I really enjoyed it.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: This book was way to slow. But otherwise in some parts intresting and exciting, but in other parts very confusing. I recommend this book to people who have alot of time, and that like boring books. Thisp book also just left you hanging at the end, but in the middle of the book it was kind of exciting and adventurues. However you have to piece this book together very well if you want to truly understand it. But I just reccomend this book to adults, its not bad or anything, its just not something a kid would want to read. My likes of this book was there were some intressting parts in the middle of the book only. My dislikes were the boring part that weren't exciting at all like at the begening and the ending.
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Summary: Simply Beautiful
Review: This book was wonderful. It realy made me think. It's a god book to disscuss with a friend. I did, and it turns out, we all interpreted parts differently. Thats one of the great things about The Giver. It gives you the freedome to think and enjoy. One of the author's best books.
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Summary: The best book that I have read in a long time.
Review: This book was written in a very interesting way. The utopian society in this book gives the book an eerie sense to it. What I found to be the most interesting thing was how it explained to the reader what would happen if the society was broken and what the "chain-reaction" of the consequences would be. Each chapter that I read gave me a sense that something was going to happen and normally I was right. The main character, Jonas, seemed to me to be a rebel throughout the entire book and was very descriptive in the way he saw his world. I loved how the community was described in a way to tell us how the days would pass in the utopian society. It explained to us how people reacted toward one another and how each family would go about their daily routines and what else that the family would do that our families normally don't.
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Summary: Enchanting, yet easy to put down when reading
Review: This book wasn't that bad. I've read it very few times and still am not moved in any way by the storyline characters or descriptions. I don't really like Lois Lowry's writing style. It is sort of boring. Don't get me wrong it was a great idea for a book. She should have thought it out more. It seemed like she wanted to write a book and she took the first idea that came to her. The main low point that I didn't like was the ending. All it says is that Jonas heard music. It ends it okay, but leaves you with no imfrmation of what could or should happen next. It doesn't even leave you in any kind of suspense. The descriptions were not as creative or mind boggling as some other books that I've read. The story line was the main high point. Given memories, nobody else knows pain or love. Very clever! The main things that bugged me were the characters. Lily was something you see in every book. I mean nearly every book. Asher was one of the guys that they could have used more throughout the book. He was a fun-loving goofball with a very small role in the story. Fiona was the one I especially liked. One that was so mysterious that Lois Lowry could have done anything with, but she chose not to. She was your average,beautiful, yet very shy girl that could have been used in some way or another to make the story more interesting. So what I'm really trying to say is that overall it was a pretty good book until it go to the ending. 7.3JH
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Summary: A 12 Year-Old Hero Transcends a Stultifying Sameness for All
Review: This book will become a classic among the many wonderful novels about the potential for counter-utopias (creating the opposite of a better life for humanity), and deserves far more than five stars. I found it as interesting and rewarding as 1984, Brave New World, and Atlas Shrugged. Researchers constantly find that reading to children is valuable in a variety of ways, not least of which are instilling a love of reading and improved reading skills. With better parent-child bonding from reading, your child will also be more emotionally secure and able to relate better to others. Intellectual performance will expand as well. Spending time together watching television fails as a substitute. To help other parents apply this advice, as a parent of four I consulted an expert, our youngest child, and asked her to share with me her favorite books that were read to her as a young child. The Giver was one of her picks. She said, "It's an awesome book, Dad, and it will only take you an hour to reread." My wife then chimed in and said I really should review this book for Amazon.com. So here it is. Ms. Lowry paints a bleak picture of having achieved equal lives for all. Everyone gets the same things, and interactions are modulated so that there will be a minimum of social disorder. Think of this as socialism turned into a low-security prison camp operated by the inmates with the help of drugs to keep everyone's minds and emotions numb. The book evolves through the life of Jonas, a 12 year old, who has lived this life of great civility and little intensity up until the book's beginning. Then he goes through a great ritual in which each young person begins specific training for their life's work, as determined by the collective to best fit their skills and personalities. Jonas is to have a role that he did not even know existed. He is to be the one person in the society who will have memories of what occurred before the collective state was formed. His tutor will be the man who has had this role until now. That man is the Giver. I won't tell you any more, because I don't want to spoil the story. The rest proceeds much like what would occur with a hero in an Ayn Rand novel. The resolution of the conflict is a particularly inventive and thought-provoking one. This book is particularly good for showing the dangers of having everyone think alike. I heartily endorse its message of exploring new thoughts and experiences. Those provide us with greater comfort than a grey conformity that we do not even perceive as such. After you have finished enjoying this outstanding book, I suggest that you ask yourself what rules your family has that could be creating missed opportunities to be more caring and close to one another. After you locate those rules, I suggest you have a discussion about the benefits of changing those rules. Good luck! May you find warmth and love wherever you go!!
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Summary: Great!
Review: This book will give you a good look at how a community communicates with one another. Jonas is able to feel the feeling the Giver is telling him.
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Summary: A adventurous thriller
Review: This book would be a great book for you if you like adventures and fiction. Here is a little about the book. Jonas is a young boy who goes to an old man named the Giver. He gets ideas from the Giver about what the world is really like so he decides to take his little brother Gabe and hisself on an adventure to see the real world. If you want to learn more read the book yourself.
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Summary: A must read!
Review: This book, like Number the Stars, is serious but well writen. I pull it out out of my bookcase again and again. The Giver though it is a good book, has a sudden ending which cheats the readers out of enjoying it as much. It could have had a much better ending. Still, I highly recomend this book [the middle part at least]!
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Summary: The Giver
Review: This book, The Giver, is a pretty ok book I guess. In some parts you get confused because Lois Lowry didnt really explain it that well. In some chapters it made me want to think ahead of what was going to happen next. In the beginning the book was pretty boring. However it was ok later on.
This book makes you think of your own pictures in your head. Some things in the book shocked me like Jonas recieved memories and the punishment Babies and the Old's got.
This book has very good vocabulary words, that some of them you have to look up while your reading ( unless you know the word) i recomened this book for kids starting from the age 12. Even so in that age, you will get confused a little. Lowry says something doesnt exist like war and the weapons, but later on it says that Asher and other friends were playing with imaginary "WEAPONS". Overall this book is very interesting...
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