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Summary: Life Inside A Bubble
Review: Hello. For those of you out there who haven't read The Giver, run out and buy it. Lois Lowery has strayed from her usual course of writing books for teenage girls, The Anastasia Series is a flicker in the past compared to The Giver. This book tackles a subject that most of us have never consider or read about before, a utopian society or "sameness". The Giver is about Jonas, one of the few "different" people in his community. In the book a special day is designated for all of the children in the community to have a sort of birthday party. Children who become a Nine will receive a bicycle and Twelve children, like Jonas, will have a job chosen for them. Jonas has been selected as a receiver, a very special assignment in the community. On his first day of training, Jonas receives something from The Giver that few in the society have ever gotten. A memory of a sled ride. At the end of every training session Jonas receives a happy memory, a rainbow, Christmas or a birthday, in addition to all the painful memories he may receive during training, like war, or a broken bone. Jonas and The Giver have been talking about how the conversion to sameness doesn't seem right anymore. They began to plot and this is where the story really begins. In my opinion this book is undoubtedly a good read, but is wanting in the adventure department. I love the new concept of "sameness", but it reminds me somewhat of Communism, everyone supposedly being of equal respect and opportunity. Although in reality no one can ever be the same. I enjoyed reading about Jonas and discovering what life in his community is like, but the book lacked something. Not until Jonas's escape did I get really into the book and even that wasn't too exciting. I enjoyed it, but definitely thought it could have been better. I hope that other people can get more out of it.
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Summary: Sounds like it was written by someone immature
Review: Her style of writing sounds childish and unformed, like a child whining when it feels bad. I thought this book would be similar in thought to 1984, or The Stranger, or maybe some of Herman Hesse's work, but it is not. This book is shameful mockery of literature.
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Summary: absoulutly the best book ever
Review: here is a book about a kid named Jonus that lives in a comunity that is far from civilavazation 1 group of people take care of this comunity Jonus been chosen to do the bigest job in the comunity every one else is chosen caretaker and other jobs like normmal jobs but Jonus is chosen as the giver!His teacher (the giver) a very smart man teaches Jonus about color,coldness,burned,and joyfullness.This book will always be in my heart.Will it in yours please read this book for all of us that strive for a new begining
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Summary: Absolutely the best, "make you think" book around!
Review: Here is a review from a teacher, oh Yuck, I know. However, I must agree that THE GIVER is at the top of my best books. I look forward to reading it every year with, or without, my students. As my own children have moved through high school, I see THE GIVER as a book which coordinates well with reading "1984" and ANTHEM. Please take the challenge and time to read this book. It is one you will want to read in a sitting!
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Summary: Society of Manufactured Perfection *sundancer*
Review: Here there is no ugliness. There is no violence. There is no hatred. But can the people of this utopian society then understand beauty, peace, and love?When Jonas comes of age, he is appointed to recieve the burden of all the memories of the Community. He alone is to understand for all of them , so they may live life freely, in ignorance. He alone is to be truly human, to suffer, but he is also to love. As he lives the world through its memories, he sets himself apart from the rest in the Community. It is as though he has vision while they are blind. He sees their efficient acts of cruelty, their legal murder, their naive helplessness. They are under perfect control, they are sheltered, they are channeled and programmed. They think that they are happy without knowing happiness in its true form. Children play war without understanding death or anger or cruelty. Women and men apply for a spouse and are matched via the government, assigned to a house and allowed one male and one female child for their family unit, but they do not have the intellectual capacity to love. Suddenly he is compelled to open their eyes to the sunlight, their ears to music... One musical piece that truly fits this book is Chopin's Mazurka in A minor, Op.67, No.4.
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Summary: This is an AWESOME book!
Review: Hey! I'm in Seventh grade, we read this book for school. At first I thought it was going to be really boring, but it turned out to be an Awesome book. This book is set far into the Future. Jonas' world is Perfect, or so he thinks until be becomes the Reciever of Memory. When he is selected to be the Reciever, he recieves memories about the Worlds Past, Pain, Love, and Color. The thing is, Jonas' World has some good things: The weather is always sunny, you don't have to worry what your job will be when you get older (the Elders choose it for you), and their transportation is bicycles (So there would be no polution). A few Bad things are: Their world is Black and White, They are only allowed to have 2 children in each family (1 girl, 1 boy), They don't have their own children (someone is assigned to that job), they perform Release (I wont say what that is, because it kind of ruins the suspense), and No one has memories of how the World used to be. This is a very interesting book, I would recomend it to anyone. Also there are some movies that have the same sorta plot, they are: Soylent Green, Gattaca, and Plesentville.
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Summary: It's a great book!
Review: Hey! WEll, I read this book for my humaties clss this month! And it was a great book! First it sounded boring but it got so interesting afterwards! I recomend this book to anyone who likes scince fiction. But I think that anyone can enjoy this book!
This book is about a boy named Jonas. He has a little sister named Lily. His father is a nuturer. Well, Jonas lives in this DIFFERENT community. It seems very weird to me. Like one thing is that no one in the community is allowed to ride bicycles until they are a Nine(nine years old). Isn't that weird? WEll, in this book, you will find many interesting rules and things happening in thi small but exciting community.
Have fun reading this book!
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Summary: This was a GREAT book!!
Review: HEY, A FIVE STAR!! I read this for the first time in my Language Arts class when I was in sixth grade. Then I read it again in seventh grade, and it was still a great book. I like Lois Lowry's idea of a futuristic community and how she chose her characters in a some kind of fashion that relates to the conclusion in some way. I really recommend this book to everyone!!
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Summary: The Giver
Review: Hi my Howard Mamane and my friend Richard Bell are writing this we are in grade 6 this year. Our class read the Giver. We liked it a lot but the ending was not so well done. We think that you could of made a better ending or at least made a continuation because this book could continue for a little while and make it much better a much book. You could of writin what would happen if Jonas came back and what happened to Jonas if he died or made it elsewhere and what was it like there. I think that you are a very good other because I have read some other books of yours and they were great so I think that you could of made the ending a little better because you have a lot of talent. If it is possible, you should rewrite the ending of The Giver. I think that you are very talented. If you read this I realy apreshiat it.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: Hi my name is Howard and I just read this book in 6th grade and it was the best. It explained what a community might be like in the futur or it waas in thepast. I have read this book over and over because it was so good. I would give you wat it was about but you should read it yourself and most probably enjoy it. You have a blast reading it. Go have a blast. If you had to do a book report or something like that you should trake this book so instead of sad because its homework don't be sad because it is the best book you can ever read.
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