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Summary: It really makes you think
Review: I read a review that gave this book one star the person said that they did not like this book because it made her question averything she had ever been taught.This book makes me realize that maybe we need tho question our values sometimes. this book could teach you alot.
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Summary: The Receiver
Review: I read the book "The Giver" from Lois Lowry in my English lesson.
The story tells from a community which is different from our. For example there are no colors, no feelings, no animals and you can not make your own decisions.
I find this book very interesting, although I did not expect this when I read the beginning. However the longer I read this book, the less I could stop reading.
It was very interesting to find out how Jonas gets all the memories and it was very exciting when he runs away from the community.
However it is a pity that the book has an open end, because there are so many questions on which I got no answer.
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Summary: Confused about the category? Me, too!
Review: I read the book and enjoyed it. . .hesitantly. I have thoroughly enjoyed much of what was in the book--I enjoy thinking, and this book certainly made me do that. I picked up the book when I saw the author (one of my favorites!) and the Newbery--an award I respect in the children's genre. However, this was not a children's book. I teach school and will leave this in my classroom but not recommend it--I feel that this book was written for adults starring children. Thinking is good, the ambiguous ending actually adds to the book in my opinion, but deals with issues that are better dealt with from an adult perspective
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Summary: It was a good book and made you wonder about alot of things.
Review: I read the book the Giver and I think that it has a lot of morals in it. It shows you that nothing is perfect no matter how hard you want it to be there will always be flaws. It also states that you should be grateful with what you have. I think that everyone should read this book so everyone will be a little more grateful.
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Summary: If you like reading about the future, you'll love this book.
Review: I read the book The Giver by Lois Lowery. The main character is Jonas. At his ceremony he becomes the new receiver. This will be his job for life. He receives all the memories of the past. He lives in the future, in a government-controlled world. The weather is always the same, everything is in black and white, you even get assigned your job and husband or wife. Basically everything is the same, but Jonas has all the memories of pain, delight, and everything else we have today. His life changed a lot when he got his job as receiver because he was not with his friends anymore, he sticks it out because he is important, and he learns so much about the past pains and glories. I highly recommend this book.
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Summary: Corey's Book review
Review: I read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas is an 11 year old boy in the near future. He lives with his family in his dwelling. Everything is perfect in his community. Everyone is assigned a role to help the community, and no one is left out. Every year there is a ceromony in which each child turns a year older. Jonas attends the ceromony expecting to be given a job. But his whole world turns upside down when he is skipped in the ceromony and given an experience he will never forget. I liked this book very, much even though some parts are confusing. You really have to use your mind to figure out what is going on. It is a good book and i recommend it to every one!
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Summary: a story of a boy in his "perfict" community.
Review: I read the book The Giver by Louis Loury. The book is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a "perfect" comunity, so he thinks. Until he is chosen for the job of recever, the highest of honor's. There he learnes things that he never wanted to know and can never forget. I thought this book was well writen with good feeling and alliteration. Untill the ending that while being interesting to some, will be tediouse and annoying to others. I give this book three stars because it has a good beginning and middle but a ending that may leave some wanting more.
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Summary: My favorite book...
Review: I read the book the Giver in third grade and read it over and over again. This book makes me appriciate the little things in life , such as colors and snow. This book is complicated, but if you reread it the end refers back and means so much more the second time around. The book is touching and amazingly written.
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Summary: The Giver- a critical review with my own opinion
Review: I read the book The giver within 2 days and one night - It was easy to read although it was ibn a foreign language(english) for me . I liked the thought of a 'perfekt' community. Alos I liked the impression that this community had to be interrupet by someone because people wanted to have their own choices. It showed me once more how we depent on the past and how things can chagne by our own exoeriences. I didn't like the though. It was so left open I evcen was thinking about writing an own en just to satisfy my thought how it possibly COULD end - The book by lois Lowry is somehow confusing as things just go along for the first - 8 - chapters - and thoughout the whol book everything is written in such detail form that you really have to stick to the book. Otherwise I would have been drifted away so quickly.
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Summary: I loved The Giver!~!
Review: I read the book The Giver(a science fiction book)by Lois Lowry.I thought this bbok had many different outlooks on life.The Giver is about a tewlve year old boy named Joans.Joans lives in a so called "perfect world".In the community he and his family and friends live in, they see everything in black and white.No one that lives in this community has feelings either.In this so called "perfect world" a boy inhabits a seemingly ideal world:a world without conflict,proverty,unemployment,devorice,injustice,or inequality.Teenage rebellion is unheard of and even good manners are a way of life. When the children in the community turn twelve they receive a life assignment determined by the Elders. I thought it was sad the way that no one in the community could feel love or know fear,or behave different from the rest of society.I hope our society will never end up in such an existence.When I read this book,I asked my self ...If things were always done that way,than why change?One thing that I thought was very impoartant was how in The Giver they stresed that happy feelings always come with sad feelings,and that love comes with hate.Also,learning never stops.A question Lois Lowry asked in this book was can people be happy without feelings?I thought about that question for some time know.I don't think that you can be happy without having feelings because happiness is an emotion.Readers will need to decise that question for them selves. I really enjoyed this book!I think that any person twelve or older should read it, just to get a different perspective on life.I hope Lois Lowry writes a sequel to The Giver!
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