The Giver

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Summary: Good Book
Review: I read the book The Giver. The Giver won the 1994 Newberry award. This book is about a boy named Jonas. In the community that Jonas lives in everything is perfect. Everyody is assigned a role and they do what they have to to do that role. The role Jonas receives requires special training. I liked this book because it is easy to understand. This book takes place in the future so I liked to see what the author thought the future would be like. If you read this book I hope you enjoy it.

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Summary: The best book I ever read.
Review: I read the Giver a few years ago and I still remember how great it was. I polished it off in about an hour. This kind of book is so rare, that provokes thought and emotion, yet still manages to tell an epic story. I have not found another book out there that impacted my beliefs with the force of The Giver. Bravo!

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Summary: I read this book when I was in 6th grade
Review: I read The Giver and the ideas of this book has remained with me (I am now in 11th grade). A hauntingly tragic story, it makes you think about the price of a completly peaceful society. This book is amazing and I recommend it to everyone

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Summary: The book that doesn't end!
Review: I read the Giver as a school book. I don't particularly like readin but this book was different. I started reading it and it was amazing, I loved the book. The other day, my teacher made me finish the book. I finished it, not willingly but I did. It doesn't end. This book was an amazing book until the end. The end made it. Lois Lowry leaves you hanging as if you know nothing, and it is hard to guess with the facts they give you. So i told my teacher, she knew and the class discussed it, and then she read us a letter one of her classes wrote to Lois. All she said was she likes the ending! She likes letting the reader decide, yet it was a auto response! I loved the book until now yet I would strongly reccomend it!

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Summary: A great book spoiled by the ending
Review: I read The Giver as a school book. I particularly liked Lois Lowry's style of writing and the topic she was writing about. When she gives Jonas a job he is left waiting and it is full of twists and suprises! Lois also does a great job of telling detail using show don't tell!
I was really disappointed with the ending. I thought that Lois Lowry needs a different ending or a epiloge. If she doesn't want either of those then she should simply write a sequal to the book. She leaves you hanging with no clues as of what happens. She never tells you what happens to the community, do they suffer? Does The Giver help them? There are so many wquestions that she doesn't answer and she could answer. One of the previous years classes wrote a letter to Lois Lowry and recieved an auto response stating that Lois liked the ending because she liked letting the reader take the book where ever he or she wanted. She doesn't really give any clues as to where to take the book. The reader really has to decide on his or her own.
I would strongly reccomend this book. Lois takes you on a fun adventure of one charachter, Jonas. He has a special job called The Reciever. He suffers pain and gets happiness, he is the only one seeing color and the only one whon knows what war is. He is the only one to know about death. Go jojin Lois on an adventure through the life of a 12 year old kid in his community. Just one thing, when you don't like the ending because it doesn't end don't come complaining to me. I don't think the book ends. I finished the book yet i did it unwillinglly. Up until the end, the book is happy and then it gets really sad! Read the book to find out about what would happen if you lived in a utopia!

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Summary: The Giver
Review: I read The Giver by Lois Lowery. It was a good book, but very confusing. It you are a person who likes to read difficult books and like science fiction this is a book for you. The main character is a twelve year old boy named Jonas. He lives in a town that is basically perfect where there is no pain and no color. Jonas gets to become Reciever of Memory where he receives memory of snow, war, the ocean, ect. He is getting memories of the world before it turned perfect. It is a very compelling story. I think it was a very good book. You might need to read it a second time to fully get it.

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Summary: An outstanding piece of literature
Review: I read The Giver in 5th grade, and have reread it many times since. The plot line that the back cover gives is nowhere near as complex as the actual book is. There are many questions that arise as the book goes on, questions of morality. You have to totally letyourself into the characters mind. This book intrigued me because you have to really think to comprehend the"big picture" and not just the "scene" that goes on inside it. I strongly recommend this book to children and adults alike. It is a moving novel that will stick with you forever.

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Summary: The Balance of Emotions
Review: I read The Giver just a few days ago on the recommendation of a friend and found it to be one of the most thought provoking books I have read in years, and I read a lot! Lowry seems to be trying to show, in an extremely artistic way, that in order for an emotion to truly exist, there must be a balancing antithesis. For there to be love, there must be war. To truly experience beauty, you must also know repulsion. Jonas realizes that his family and friends have never truly felt pain or saddness or anger, and that makes him feel extremely alone. This "painfree life" is really nothing but a long gray death.
'The Giver' is a challenge to you and to me, to the whole world, to never forget the memories. They are our responsibility to bear, and to share.
I am 16 years old, an avid reader. I have forgotten more plots than I remember. I pray I will never forget this book.

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Summary: The most fasinating children's book I have ever read!
Review: I read The Giver to my son when he was in fifth grade. We both enjoyed it immensely. I was glad to read this book to my son at that time because I could explain things to him throughout the story. He is now in eighth grade and we still enjoy talking about Jonas and how he handled becoming The Giver. It is my all time favorite book. I am an elementary teacher and plan to read it to my class someday. I have never read a book that moved me as much as this one did. Thank you Lois Lowry for writing such a fasinating book that all can enjoy.

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Summary: A GREAT READ!!!
Review: I read The Giver when I was 13 years old and to this day (I'm now 18) it has remained one of my favorite books of all time. This book is frightening in its cold portrayal of the future; horrifying in its descriptions of emotionless, ignorant people, yet it is an ultimately touching, eye-opening story. Lois Lowry's straightforward, simple writing style makes it possible for people of almost all ages to read The Giver; her interwoven themes of unrelenting hope and love in a lost, scared community make The Giver an absolutely necessary read.