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Summary: A good school book
Review: We read this book in our English lessons. At first it was difficult to understand but after a while we couldn't stop reading. We were fascinated how our future might be. It was difficult to imagine living without feelings and being totally equal. The book gave us an impulse to think about our life and we realized how great ordinary things like snow, sunshine, colours and feelings, of course, are.
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Summary: Good aspects
Review: We really like this book because it treats new problems that we don't know: Sameness! Jonas, the main character lives in a community where all the things are the same. Because there are no colors, no music and no individuality. It's very admirable how Jonas tries to change the life in the community, as he escapes of the community. In our opinion this book must get an OSCAR! Many thanks to the author that we can read such a great fantastic and fascinating book !
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Summary: A good choice
Review: We recently read this book at school. First it was a little bit difficult to understand, but later we really enjoyed reading it. Although the story is very unrealistic, the novel is interesting for "not fantasy-fans", too.
The novel is about a boy called Jonas, who lives in a world without colours, feelings, music, animals, etc. One day Jonas is selected as the new receiver which means that he gets all the memories from the past. And now everything changes. Jonas gets to know all feeling and colours and he wants to make all people share these memories. But that sounds easier than it is...
Start reading the book and you will never want to end!
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Summary: Review for the novel "The Giver"
Review: We think that the book "The Giver" by Lois Lowry is one of the best books we read at school. Jonas the main character in the story lives in a "perfect" community. When he was selected to be the next "Receiver of Memory", he began to learn more about the community and the negative side of the "perfect world". He realized that the situation had to be changed.
The book is very well written and it`s fun to read this book. You just don`t know how this book will end. In the first chapters the novel isn't so much interesting but in the following chapters the book gets very exciting.
A book for all generation because it's very interesting. It shows, that an utopia cannot exist in this world.
We think that everybody has to read this novel.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: We thought The Giver was a poorly written book. Out of five stars we give it one star.
This book is about a boy named Jonas who lived in a perfect community where it's colorless and it has climate control. In the community when you turn 12 you get assigned a job. Jonas got assigned the job of receiver of memory. The receiver of memory holds all of the community's memories.
Jonas goes on an adventure with a baby in his family unit(the baby's name is Gabriel).
We thought The Giver was a bad book because it had a lot of complicated things that the author could have explained better. We didn't like the plot. It built up too slowly and ended too quickly.The book had too much stuff that didn't sound realistic. For example, they had to share dreams at breakfeast.We felt you didn't get a lot of feeling for the characters.
In conclusion we thought it was a poorly written book.
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Summary: A book that made us realize what we didn't appreciate
Review: We thought these people were completely satisfy with ignorance because they just did everything they were told to do and had no idea what they were missing. We liked that the author introduced to us a whole different view point of what a Utopian society is.
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Summary: a magical book that had a very creative plot!
Review: We were assigned to read the giver at our school. Everybody moaned cheered but I didn't know if it was a good book or a bad. So when I started the very first page I was really confused about it. So I told my brother if he could read the first page with me. After he explained the first page I understood the rest of the book. After I finished The Giver I realized that as a writer it took so much talent to be so descriptive and so emotional about your books. So if your reading my article Lois Lowry I want to tell you that your book inspired me to write.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: We've read the book "The Giver" in our English lessons in school.
First, it was very difficult to read, but the more we read, the more we understood. It was interesting to get to know such a world which is so different to ours: no colours, no love, no emotions,... It was Jonas's assignment to become "The Receiver" to get all those memories back. It was exciting to read how Jonas bears them.
We like the fact that Louis Lowry chose an open end, because everybody can use his or her own imagination to decide what will happen next.
All in all, we think the book is very advisable to read!
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Summary: Newbery's finest
Review: Welcome to the ideal world: a world without conflict, poverty, unemployment, injustice or inequality.Welcome to the annual Ceremony of Twelves. Each 12 year-old receives a life assignment by the elders. Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of Memory, this assignment was last given 10 years ago, and the youngster failed miserably. Will Jonas fail asd this awesome task? He meets The Giver, an elderly man who gives Jonas his memories of the past. Jonas learns about snow and sunshine, he learns about color and most importantly he learns about love. Which way of life is better? The old life has pain, yet a life without pain holds no joy. I'm never shocked at the reviews of this book...it is easy to see age of the reviewers, especially when they write..." what a dumb book, who could imagine a world without color." I just hope at some point these young folks will return to and read this book...it's magical and one that will last forever.
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Summary: My comment (Lucero, Humboldt Schule)
Review: Well I don't know how to start, at first I must say that I'm writing this review for my English lesson. I did like the book .I think that "The Giver" is the kind of book where you don't know what will happen. The author describes the situation in a paticular way so that you want to read more and more.What I didn't like is that it has an open end. If I begin telling you the story it won't make any sense to you to read it .That's why I'm only telling you my opinon. I recommend this book hoping that you will read it. :):):):)
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