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Summary: Exellent
Review: I think this book was exellent it had so much power.This was a very interesting book because it had a way of getting you to think.I deffinetly would recommend a part 2 for the story.
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Summary: It was pretty good
Review: I think this book was pretty good because i like how the author made the giver very old and wise
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Summary: The Giver
Review: I think this book was very interesting. I like it because it was very exciting and dramatic.I definitely reccomend this book to older kids and adults. It shows a lot of drama and the way it expresses it is brilliant. I really think you should go and read this book right nowi
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Summary: I THINK THIS IS THE BEST BOOK IVE EVER READ! ! !
Review: I THINK THIS IS THE BEST BOOK BECAUSE IT TELLS YOU ABOUT WHAT PLACE THERE TRIING TO FIND THE PLACE CALLED ELSEWHERE BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO LIVE THERE HIM AND GABE SO WHEN THEY LEFT THEY WERE ON THERE WAY TO FIND ELSEWHERE AND SO THEY STARTED ON THERE JOURNEY TO ELSEWHERE SO WHEN THEY WERE GOING DURRING THE NIGHT AND SLEEPING DURRING THE DAY SO WHEN THE PLAINS WENT BY WITH THE HEAT SENSORS SO JONAS WOULD THINK OF A HOT SUMMER DAY AND THEN TOUCH GABE SO THAT WAY THE HEAT SENSOR DOESNT DETECT THE WARMTH OF JONAS AND GABE DURRING THE NIGHT... BUT A LITTLE LONGER AFTER THERE LONG JOURNEY TO THE ELSEWHERE HE FOUND A SLED SO WHEN THEY BOTH GOT ON IT THEY STARTED TO GO DOWN AND THEN THEY SAW LIGHTS SO THEY KEPT GOING DOWN AND THEN THEY FINALLY FOUND THE PLACE CALLED ELSEWHERE AND THATS WHERE THEY LIVED HAPPLIY EVER AFTER.....THE END...
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Summary: Interesting, but not the best.
Review: I think this was a rather interesting book, mostly due to the fact that it takes palce in the future. I usually like futuristic stories, and out of all of them i have rea, this has to be one of the wierdest by far. First off, the settting takes place int his little town that has a bundle of rules that the whole town has to obey. The main carachter, Jonas, is assigned to the role of the reciever. He recieves memoreis from this old dude and realizes how much the community is messed up. It's a good book, and it keeps you interested in the story, though through the middle of book, it starts to get alittle boring. Good news is that is starts to get more exciting when he leaves the town. The only thing i didn't like about the book was the ending. The author left us hanging there, but i guess the point of this ending is to let the reader think of the ending.
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Summary: When Conformity gets out of hand
Review: I think this was a wonderful book. It takes all of your 5 senses and restricts them to a black and white cutout of the perfect world. Then it takes that cutout and breaches it through the mind of Jonas and the Giver, making the discovery of color, smell, hearing, etc., as wonderful as it was the first time you learned it. As Jonas learns everything for the first time, so do you, and you don't know what will happen next. This book will take you on an everlasting thrill ride as you look into a world that has never been but could be, and how a world without freedom would look. So, open your mind, and open this book! :-)
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Summary: This book was great!
Review: I think when I found out abuot release I was going to cry. It wasn't right to do that to children. I think Jonas made a right decision on take Gabe and leave the community. Some of the rules were unfair. I would like to pick who to marry and what job I want. Also making one person like the giver deal with all their pain is rude. I think this books shows you that sameness isn't always good. They couldn' even see in color because people according to the community would be jelious.
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Summary: The Giver - my first english book ;)
Review: I think, that the book is very funny, because its an utopia ..
But I got very sad, because I didnÂ't understand a lot of words and I wasnÂ't sure if iÂ'm good enough in english .. because i thought, that this book was only for children .. and I have been learning english for 5 years and I thought, that IÂ'm not good enough .. :(!
But it was very nice to read that book, because i like those unrealistik thinks ..
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Summary: Cathy Thorson of Hamilton Township review of the Giver
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed The Giver. It really does a great job of conveying the importance of "sharing" memories. It's just not fair to the human mind to deprive it of such wonderful things. But, the flip side is with all happy things come sad things. With Christmas and love, also come war and hate. All in all a great book. I would recommend it strongly to any reader with an open mind.
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Summary: Simply Amazing.
Review: I thoroughly enjoyed this novel, as it brought me happiness as well as grief within its visually colorful scriptures. Jonas, a boy of only twelve, discovers that he is destined to do more than what meets the naked eye, no pun intended. His community, known for its equality, or rather today this can be labeled as communism, assigns Jonas to work as the keeper of memories, where he is to deal with the pain and strife that the rest of the population does not deal with. This is supposedly done to ensure the happiness of his clan. Ever so slowly Jonas realizes that his life had been shielded from reality. Jonas had been lied to about what life was supposed to be like, and in this trap of bland grays, Jonas decided that he had to escape.I felt that Louis Lowery almost perfectly described this utopia in which Jonas resided. Everything was explained in utmost detail to give everyone the distinct view of life through Jonas's eyes. Lowery's use of allusion to the topic of Communism was also a powerful topic that I felt was delicately embedded within the text. Very craftily it was used to depict a community where everything was 'provided and cared-for equally,' but not necessarily 'perfect.' I would recommend this book to any age group. It is simple to read for any age, but what you get out of the book lies in how deeply you understand its levels. To a sixth grader, this could just be a story about following your heart, but to a junior in high school such as myself, this is a story about the need to escape from a world of depressing equality to a life of color and true love.
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