The Giver

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Summary: This book isn't particularly my favorite, however is one I..
Review: 'll remember all my life! There is one word that can describe the story...different! The story being extremely well described taught me many vocabulary words.Whenever I spied a word I either:Didn't know or weren't sure about, I quickly jotted down to look up later. Jonas Parker, a young, strong-willed boy, finds his path in life after replacing another man and becoming the giver!

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Summary: Once you've started this,you can't put it down until the end
Review: 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry concerns a teenage boy growing up in a society where all emotions are repressed, births are strictly controlled and those who don't fit in are "released". I won't say too much about it, because there are a couple of plot features which I could spoil. What I will say is that it is brilliantly written - the reader can instantly emphasise with the central character - incredibly moving and altogether beleivable. (N.B. This is a young adults title, but don't let that put any adult readers off)

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Summary: The Giver Review
Review: 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry is a great book. It's about a boy named Jonas, who has lived in sameness all his life, with his experience in a new life as a Receiver of Memory, will learn what was. He was selected with honor. The preasent Receiver of Memory is very wise, kind, & origanal. 'Somehow he is different,' as Jonas had put it. Jonas is a cheerful, boyish, & fun boy.
There are many great characters also. His two best friends are Asher & Fiona. Asher is spontanious & spunky, while Fiona is sweet & calm. His family unit is made up of Father who is talkitive & helpful, Mother who is proper, kind, & well-manored, & Lily who is hyper, talkitive, & inquisitive.
'The Giver' is a fantastic novel. I would recommend it for anyone. It's easy to read, though there are some difficult vocab. There are a few things I disliked about it. I think the theme is 'be you, not the same as someone else. Uniqueness is an important tool to life' (my advice is to listen)!!!!!

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Summary: The Giver
Review: 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry is a novel describing an ideal neighborhood. Everyone in the community lives an extremely similar lifestyle; there are no colors, and everything happens at the same time every year. The story centers on Jonas, a young boy, who is selected as the bearer of memories for his community. While the other twelve year olds are balancing work and play, Jonas is being given the memories of the entire world. Everything in his life suddenly changes.

I really enjoyed this novel. The book describes the perfect society that Jonas lives in, and I found this community very interesting. I do not like the idea of a perfect community, but I think that Lois Lowry did an excellent job of portraying that situation. The details in the novel are vivid, even though the world that Jonas lives in is very dull. This novel was very well written and interesting; I would definitely recommend it.

I think that this novel deserves four stars out of five. There were certain details toward the end of the novel that I did not like, so they influenced my opinion of the entire novel. Ignoring a few minor details, I did feel that the novel was still very good.

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Summary: one of my favorites...
Review: 'The Giver' for me was a perfect book, and I've read it over 3 times. The ideas of a utopian perfect society have been expressed by many authors, but Lois Lowry has created a vivid image to go along with the words. 'The Giver' will remain one of my favorite books.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: 'The Giver' has been my favorite book ever since 8th grade. This is the type of book that really makes you wonder about the world. Will we live like the Jetson's in the future? Will we still live on earth? Will there be life on other planets? How will our world be run? All these questions run through my mind while reading a book like this. 'The Giver' is an excellent book and is also a very easy read. I read this book when I was in 8th grade and I loved it, and now that I have read it again as a senior I still love it!!

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Summary: "The Giver," an interesting work of fiction.
Review: 'The Giver' is an interesting book about a world that is controlled and is void of emotions that are painful. They don't have vocabulary for certain words, they only have synonyms. The most important age for a person in the main character Jonas' world is 12, the age that a person gets assigned to what he or she will do for the rest of their lives. Jonas finds out that he is going to be a Receiver, and he gets special access to all kinds of memories. When he finds out what life is all about though, Jonas decides that his perfectly constructed world is wrong, and he tries to change it. The novel is a really good one that makes you wonder if something like Jonas' world will become our world someday.

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Summary: The Giver: A review
Review: 'The Giver', written by Louis Lowry is a fiction novel about a world which seems to be perfect...

The world in which Jonas lives seems to be perfect, no suffer no grief no pain and no unemployment. Jonas will soon get an 'Assignment' at the 'Ceremony of twelve', that means
he will get a job. Jonas is chosen to get a job as the 'Receiver', who keeps all the memories
of the past and those, which are withhold from the people of the community. When Jonas begins to receive the memories from the 'Giver' he sees that this 'perfect' world has its seamy side. People aren't allowed to have any feelings, any individualism, own thinking and fun. It is only a world, that works and those who don't fit to it, because they are too old, too weak or break some of the many rules belonging to the community, get killed. When Jonas finds out that his little 'brother' Gabriel (there are no real families, family units get allocated) will be released ( Release is an euphemism for killing) he flees after he talked to the Giver with Gabriel from the community.

My opinion about the book: I like the topic of the book, because it gives us a warning about how the future could look like if we don't care and of some dictators, who try to create totaliarianisms. So I liked the topic, but I didn't like how the author wrote it, because there are too many questions, that were not answered. Besides the whole book is a little bit too trivial and more for little children. Also in some points it is not realistic, but it is just a fictional book.

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Summary: I thought this book was very enlightening.
Review: (...) I didn't know what i wanted, so i asked my best friend.... who has probably read every book in the library by now. anyway, she said that the giver was an excellent book and that i should read it. i decided "well..... she looks like she knows what she is talking about when she says to read something" so i checked it out immediatly. i got home and i started reading it. i admit, it starts a little slow, but once you get to chapter 3 you just can't put it down. i'm sure someday they will make a movie about it, so if you aren't a book fan then you could wait until then, but if you read for the fun of it, BUY THIS BOOK IMMEDIATLY!(...) i have also heard that gathering blue is the capanion, so if you buy the giver, make sure you buy that too! i hope you find this review helpful. hope you read it! read more of my reviews!

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Summary: The Giver
Review: *****Although I read this book when I was only 12, I have now graduated from college, and it is still one of my all-time favorite books. I still think about The Giver and all of its wonderful characters. I would recommend this book to any young person (and even an adult) that is interested in experiencing a society that is so very different than one would expect. It opens one's eyes to different political and social views. What a wonderful book to read on a rainy weekend. *****