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Summary: a review on "The Giver"
Review: "The Giver" tells of a boy-Jonas-who has to go through life of sameness. Everything was normal for Jonas until he was given the job of "receiver" and is pulled from the life he once lived. The story tells of Jonas and his new life, and how he realizes that there is more in life than he was taught to know. Jonas will have to learn about the real world and is given help from the "giver".The Giver was a great book that taught me that not everyone is perfect; and even though you are supposedly to be living in a perfect community, nothing is still perfect. This book made me think of the world around me. It also made me think about my life and the people around me. This book also taught me that if you try hard enough, you could over come anything. I recommend this book to anyone 10-years or older.
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Summary: The Giver teaches a boy in the Community.
Review: "The Giver" was a very enjoyable book because it has good lessons on how families should spend time together and how children should be taught to be resopsiable. The ceremonies were important events in the Giver. Children one though twelves are recognized at annaual celebrations. At the age of eight children receive a new jacket with small buttons and the first pocket . This teaches children to keep up with their belongons. they also receive volunteer hours. They must be responsiable in order to do volunteer. I think it is a good idea to teach children responsibility.
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Summary: It was a great book and I think everyone should read it.
Review: "The Giver" was a very good book. It was mostly about Jonas and him growing up. It explained his whole community and how things were there. Jonas was a very happy child, never worried, or he didn't even wonder that much about things elsewhere. When Jonas turned 12 his whole began to change for him. He was given the job Reciever. He could recieve memories other people in his community couldn't. The Give r gave himmemories of real life of war, pain, agony, starvation, seasons, colors and even death. All those memories turned Jonas's life upside down as well as educated him. He started to feel he didn't want to be in that community anymore because he didn't agree with the way the community. He planned to leave the community to go to elsewhere. The Giver hepled him fulfill his plan, and Jonas was able to get away with Gabe to elsewhere.
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Summary: The giver is a metaphor of life in an ordinary town.
Review: "The Giver" was an interesting, well written book. It portrays the life of an ordinary boy growing up in an seclusive town refered to as the "Community". The main character Jonas grows up in the community until he's a "12" which is the beginning of your adult life. When Jonas is given his "assignment" which is like his lifetime job. He is given "reciever of memory". He then learns of everything that the town is secluded from. When Jonas learns about the outside it scares him to know what's on the outside. He also learns what people are really like and it scares him to a point where he feels he needs to leave the community all together. This book is portrayed excellently of how a perfect town can easily become twisted around to someplace scary.
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Summary: a very good book
Review: "The Giver" was one of the most unique books I've ever read. It's somewhat like a folklore with a story that's based on a society that isn't real. The people in the controled community are like robots with no variation and no feelings. Since the people in the community chose not to have feelings, they gave the responsibility of carrying everyone's feelings to a chosen one such as Jonas and The Giver. The "shared rememberence" between Jonas and The Giver resembles a fortune teller showing someone's future or a witch implanting images or thoughts into a person's head. Over all I thought the book was great and I recommend it to everyone and not just young adults.
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Summary: a good book
Review: "The Giver" was one of the most unique books I've read. It's somewhat like a folklore with a story based on a society that isn't real in comparison with today's society which is filled with a variety of people and styles. The people in the controlled community are like robots with no variation and no feelings. Since the people in the community chose not to have feelings, they gave the responsibility of carrying everyone's feelings to a chosen one such as Jonas and The Giver. The "shared rememberence" between Jonas and The Giver resembles a fortune teller showing someone's future or a witch implanting images or thoughts one may or may not want in their minds.
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Summary: Comment
Review: "The Giver"by Lois Lowry is a story about an eleven year old boy who lives in a community where life is totally different to life in our world.He is called Jonas and he,like all the other members of the community doesn't know that there is another reality.But then Jonas learns about the differences between the community and the outside world and he comes to an important decision for himself and the community. Although the story is a science fiction story I really liked it.The story seems less unrealistic as it seems at first sight.It makes you think about the problems of progress and genetic manipulation without seeming to be a warning.The resder likes to read the book chapter by chapter in order to experience something new.Life is described in details and the reader can form a clear picture what life in the community is like and what the different characters in the book are feeling.The story has an open ending.The reader doesn't really get to know what happens to Jonas or the community.I would have liked to know it but this ending only makes you hope that everything changes for the better.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: "The Giver," by Lois Lowry, is a novel about a perfect world that would never exist. The community in which these characters live in is surreal. Their lifestyle is based on what they are told to be and how they are told to live. This book has many themes and meanings. A particular theme is the study of folklore and cultures of different people. In this novel, Jonas is the main character. He is a twelve year old boy who will be turning thirteen in a short time. He is excited about this fact, because in his community, when you reach a certain age, you are given a job that you have to perform for the rest of your life. When it is time for the ceremony, and the children are all given their job assignments, Jonas believes that he had been forgotten about. Surprisingly, he was told that his job assignment would be that of the Giver. Jonas was to go into training immediately. The Givers' job was to receive the memories of all the people in the community. All the love, pain, hate, anger, happiness, worry, frustration, war, hunger, and every other emotion possible, would be in the hands of Jonas. After some training, and Jonas' witnessing of his father murdering an infant, Jonas decided that it is too much for him and he decides to go "Elsewhere." This decision would be a very dangerous one, because no one was allowed to leave the community. Jonas does it anyway, and wonders what is waiting for him beyond his own community. The Giver is an appropriate book for the study of folklore because it shows how memories are supposed to be passed from one generation to another, for a person to truly understand who they are and where they are coming from. The Giver shows us that for a community to survived and live normally there has to be a balance of emotions and no one person should be able to hold all these emotions and not pass them one. Although our world and communities are not perfect, it is more important that we know who we are, and we be able to love and hate and feel whatever emotion we choose, than to live in a perfect world filled with no emotion.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: "Welcome. We must get started. You're one minute late."
As I said before, you are one minute late which means you missed the subject of my review. Well, I'll repeat it, but don't be late again. "The Giver by Lois Lowry," that's all you've missed.
Ahem! Where to start...Ah I have it. The characters. Pretty interesting, and there are more then I list here: Jonas, a boy at 11 when you meet him, but yes, he grows an almost 2 years. He is a very curious boy who has ended up with a special life, to be the new Receiver in Training. What does he think of his highly honored job? Well, I won't give away what he does, but he doesn't prefer his honor. Asher, an interesting character, has had trouble with language ever since being a little kid. A somewhat humorous kid you will see. Lily, Jonas' sister is a very curious girl at 7 and always has something to argue about. After a little explanation of what she's talking about by her parents, the argument soon ends. His mother and father aren't as important as all , but still important enough. The mother (you never find out any of their real names) is a nice person who is in the Department of Justice. The father is a nuturer. A nuturer is someone who takes care of youngsters untill they are assigned a family unit to live with. He takes a child to his house and sneeks a peek at the naming list. The childs name is Gabriel. Jonas' father isn't supposed to have the child at their home untill that is decided by the other nuturers later in the book.
"Call me The Giver."
The Giver is Jonas' insructor. What he does is transfers memmories from the past from him to Jonas.
The setting (I thought) was an odd one. A community of sameness with no colors, feelings, that sort of thing. Well when Jonas is "selected" to be the new Receiver in Training, his whole life changes. He sees colors, he has feelings, he discovers books and so much more! Soon these feelings overtake him and because Gabriel is to be released from the community the next morning Jonas frees him from his misfortune. How you ask? Well, read The Giver by Lois Lowry to find out!
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Summary: The Giver - by Lois Lowry
Review: ' The Giver ', by Lois Lowry, reflects on the wonderful freedom that comes with individuality of character. Jonas, the main focus of the story, is a boy living a normal life in his community. Regulated by strict laws, blinded to color, deafened to music, and bearing no memories of a time before their own, the citizens of the community are dominated by a state known as Sameness. They have a contained, controlled, and predictable way of life. Pain and pleasure are not known to them, because their emotions and feelings have also been taken away, quelled by drugs that all of them take daily. But one among them is selected to hold all the memories of the world, color and music and joy and grief. He chooses Jonas as his successor, and passes his memories on to him. As Jonas learns about the true feelings of life, he and The Giver formulate a plan to give the community back the memories that they lost and regain a truer sense of life.
' The Giver ' takes place in a Utopian, "perfect" community of the future. Jonas and the Giver struggle to bring back to the community the memories of the past. -from Nacho Gal
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