The Giver

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Summary: This is an awesome book
Review: A friend recomended this book to me. At first i wasn't very interested, but when i started reading it i found myself not able to put the book down. When i finished this book i told all of my friends about it and to read it right away. I even told my communication arts teacher about it and next year the class will be reading it. This book makes you stop and think about what the future will be like. Read this book and i can guarantee that you will fall in love with it!

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Summary: Excellent read for youth and adults alike!
Review: A friend's daughter was required to read this book for school, and the mom was so struck by it she gave it to me. It is haunting, compelling, hard to put down. A lot to think about. This book should make us question where we are going and also make us take a hard look at the past. This current weekend of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday was an excellent time to read this. As the book addresses much about memories, both painful and pleasurable, this is an opportune time to reflect on our beliefs, actions towards others, and what we want for our children. An outstanding book, The Giver is wonderful for young people and adults. This book will stay with me, as some other books in my life have done, constantly challenging me to think and feel when I recall the story. Top-notch!

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Summary: The Giver
Review: A great Book in which A boy in a socioty based on everything being the same finds out he is to be the next "receiver of memories" someone who bears memories so that the people are satisfied with what they have and don't want to be different.

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Summary: The Giver
Review: A life with... no color, no choices and no love. The community that Jonas lives in, lives without those and many other things. The people in that community have no clue what those things are and Jonas doesn't either until he becomes a 12 and receives his job assignment. In this community you have no choices, you look basically like everyone else, you don't decide your job, or who you're going to marry. Pretty much your whole life is decided by the elders in the community. Jonas is assigned to a rarely given job, Receiver of Memories. He gets the good memories, like snow, colors and love. But Jonas can't take the memories of war and pain. What is he going to do! I would recamend this book to anyone, but it is kind of disturbing at times.

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Summary: Collective Classroom Review (emphasis on Tim)
Review: A literature for a young adults class was collectively required to read this text.

-4 students=5 stars
-7 students=4 stars
-2 students=3 stars
-teacher=5 stars

We, as a class, agreed that the book had an ambiguous ending.

11=optimistic 2=pessimistic

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Summary: The Giver by Chris Rees
Review: A perfect world, wow! My book is called the Giver it is by Louis Loury. The Publisher is Bantam DoubleDay Dell Publishing Group Inc. It was published in 1994. It is a must read! Jonas lives in a perfect world. He is 12 and an easy going person. In this world there is no color no joy and most of all no love. He has to bring these things upon them so he leaves the community. If you like fantasy, I am sure you will like The Giver. In the end he leaves for elsewhere. 10 to Adult would enjoy this book. Mostly a boy but it varies.

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Summary: A Utopia World
Review: A perfect world. It'd be nice to have a perfect world, but would things be really perfect? In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the setting is utopial, in a close knit community where there is no crime, war, prejudice, pain, or love. The Giver is all about a community giving up their human race in order to establish a close knit and safe haven. People who live in the community consider themselves living in a perfect world. Jonas is a twelve years old boy who receives his assignment. He is to become the receiver, the highest honor of the community. The receiver holds all of the community's memories, pain, and love. Jonas begins his training with the Receiver, an Elder, whom he calls the Giver. As Jonas receives the memories from the Giver, he see colors, what snow is like, pain, and love. The more Jonas learns, the more afraid he is. In the community he lives in, there are no colors, no sun, no love and pain, and no choices. People of the community have their beliefs and that is to let others decide their future and their fate. He then discovers a ceremony, "release," is murder. Jonas realizes the "perfect" community he lives in isn't perfect after all. The book was very fascinating. I read the book in less than two days. I was immured in the book from the start and I just wanted to read to find out what would occur. One thing led to another thing. At the end, I was mystified.

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Summary: Moving Picture of the Future
Review: A psychologically terrifying book by Lois Lowry. I was addicted to this book and was never able to put it down for more than ten seconds. I read it in one day. It's about a community where there are no feelings, no color, no pain. Jonas, a young boy preparing for the Ceremony of Twelves. He is "apprehensive", as he puts it. He is given the task of being the Receiver of Memory, to be trained by an old man known only as the Giver. It also features a variety of secondary characters: Asher, Jonas' best friend and a confused malaprop: Fiona, a red-haired girl whom Jonas has a crush on; and Lily, Jonas' precocious little sister.

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Summary: Enjoying and Suspenseful
Review: A real interesting and suspensful ride into your imagination. A real enjoyable book for pre-teens and teens. A well wrighten book. It sure deserves the John*Newberry*Medal. The bigging is a little on the boring side, but it starts to get better and better during the book. Once u get a hold of the book u won't wan't to put it down for anything. that's why I give it 5 stars. It's what it deserves. 5 stars for the great story called The Giver.

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Summary: A Community with too much Control
Review: A Review by Jason

The Giver is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a "community" with his mother, father and little sister Lilly. Jonas is eleven and turns twelve during the course of the book. Every year the community has a ceremony of 12 where the children who will be turning 12 for that year will get the assignment for the job they will do for the rest of their lives in the community. Jonas is assigned as the giver, and finds out that his assignment is the most important in the community.

This book is an easy read for most people who in 6th grade or above but it is a book that I enjoyed from front to back. This book seems to be very well written and flows very naturally with very few unnecessary words or information, everything seems to tie into something that previously happened so you are always gathering new information about something you may not have gotten earlier in the book. The only thing I did not lie about this book was the ending, I think Jonas could have handled the situation that was eventually the end of the book better than what he did. I like how Lois Lowry describes how important the ceremony of twelve is and how Jonas and the rest of his peers have many apprehensions just before the ceremony, "the entire community attended the ceremony each year. For the parents, it meant two days holiday from work; they sat together in the huge hall. Children sat with their groups until the went, one by one, to the stage."

I would recommend this book for any person that likes a science fiction book about what the future might be like for us. This book is about a 6th grade reading level but it can be read by 4th and 5th graders without much trouble. This is a great book and an interesting one about what our future might be like.