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Summary: Great body, Disturbing Ending
Review: I really liked the book's body. I thought wow, this is a great book! Then when I found out how people were released, it socked me. I didn't expect that was the way they released people. I thought they just outcast people, not exicute them. But overall it was an o.k.
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Summary: Choices
Review: I really liked the novel "The Giver". I always kept you thinking about Jonas and his world. Jonas lives in a Utopia where there are no choices, differences, or memories. When he is given a highly respected job, he learns the truth about how communities just like ours really live. While reading this book I started thinking about life without choices. What would it be like? The little things that we take for granted would not be there. Things like waking up in the morning and choosing whether to wear blue or green, eating a pear or an apple and seeing red or green, or just looking up and seeing the stars, these are all things we take for granted that Jonas didn't have. Eventually, Jonas leaves his community in search for memories and choices. This is the way I would want to live too. I really like the novel and I think that Lois Lowry did a good job writing it. It speaks a great message.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: I really liked this book and how it was a different world were there was no colors and no memories the only person who had all the memories was the giver. Thrould the book Jonas was receiving the memories and started seeing colors. I liked how Jonas got memories of feelings like pain, love, anger, happiness, and more. I loved this book and you will too. This is a great pick.
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Summary: Strange
Review: I really liked this book but it kinda wierded me out. It was definately different from any other book i have ever read. I think it should have explained certain things better though. I've read it twice. First in 5th grade and then in 8th. My 5th grade teacher refused to read it outloud because it dealt with some issues that may be not be suitable for 5th graders and i agree with him. Now as a freshman i think i understand the book alot more. I think it also makes you realise how much we take things for granted, like color or real families. I would recomend it to anyone looking for a different view of life.
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Summary: A Real Page Turner!!!
Review: I really liked this book! There was a few proubles with it though. I recomend this book for people how like an ending that dosn't tell what happenes to the charters. I think that the author should have told us me of what happened in the end. Another prouble with the book is that it has a lot of counter dictions. It say they don't have guns, but a few pages later they do. I think it was not as rewarding at the end of the book. I still will recomend the book, becuse it has a lot of good twist in it. As I said it is a page turner!! I think most of the book is pretty good!
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Summary: deep and insightful - loved it!!
Review: I really liked this book, for a couple of reasons. One is that it subtly incorporates the concept of traditions and urban legends. Because this community didn't have any folklore, just rules and regulations, there was nothing to tie the community together. The only reason why the community felt any connection was because they were ingrained with the sense that they were a part of the community since they were born. But what community were they really apart of? Without the stories that are passed down from generation to generation, there is no real link. There are superficial links, necessary for order and survival, but when you come right down to it, there is nothing. This book reminds us of that, and teaches us to not take our roots for granted. The other thing I like about The Giver is that it makes the reader pause and reflect on his or her own life. What would we do if we didn't have any choices, not even what we eat for breakfast? I for one would go crazy. It makes us appreciate the choices we have in life, even the ones we really don't want to make.
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Summary: It was a book that brings out the best in people.
Review: I really liked this book, however I felt that there were some parts that were too vague. This took away from the development of the scenery and overall plot. I thought this because the story did not have much description about the scenery so every time there was anything about scenery it was amazing, but there was not enough detail for a person to be able to imagine what the place looked like in her mind. On the other hand the overall story was wonderful the characters were well developed and the suspense was well created. Like the memory of the poachers and the elephant and the elephant's mate. Another example would be the memory of warfare.
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Summary: Review for netcourse
Review: I really liked this book, I loved the way it was written, and, although a little to young for my age (17) I still enjoyed it a lot. I liked the way the story started. It seemed like Jonas was innocent, a child. He knew nothing of what was happening all around him. That is until 'The Ceremony of Twelve', everybody in this 'commune' has their lives mapped out for them. Jonas is chosen for the highly regarded and much revered role as 'The Giver'. The Giver at the moment is an old man, who reveals to Jonas that he is the keeper of the communes emotions and feelings, all the good, the bad, the happy, the sad, the painful and all the pleasureful ones. He must give these to Jonas by psychically passing them to him (like a Vulcan Mind Melt for you trekkies out there!) Jonas must learn to accept the good with the bad. As Jonas receives the memories The Giver looses them from his mind, he only remembers them slightly. First of all Jonas learns how to feel snow, he loves it. The Giver continues to give Jonas wonderful and exciting emotions and feelings and then slowly starts to introduce the harder ones, like a broken arm, a fire, dying, etc. Jonas hates this part of his calling. When he realizes that death is the same as 'Releasing' he learns what his whole society is like, - a sterile emotionless existence where all independent thought and personal growth is quashed. He starts to turn against his father who works as a 'Nurturer'. He released a baby earlier that day, and Jonas realized that his father murdered a little baby. This acts as a catalyst for Jonas and The Giver to start a plan that will inevitably turn the whole society and ideology of the commune upside down. I suggest you read this book, if you are 6 or 60, it is a really good book all about what our world could turn into.
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Summary: A must for everyone
Review: I really liked this book. I gave it four stars because the ending sucked. But for the rest it was good. It makes you think about how life will be in the future.
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Summary: The Giver is my favorite book.
Review: I really liked this book. I must have read it a million times since I was in sixth grade and we had to read i for school. I also read it faor a book club. Most of the kids in the group liked it too. The very begining is a little confusing because there were a lot of terms I hadn't heared before. You just have to be patient and lok for details and its easy to figure out. I was eally surprised about the color. I should have guessed though. Why else would he have been talking about the shade of things and not the color. I was a little surprised about the release but I new it couldn't be too great. Why else woud they make so big a deal about it. Some people might find some parts offensive, but I dont. It's a great book.
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