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Summary: Jonas awaits the day of his ceremony, he is in for a ride.
Review: Jonas lives in a strange town. One where this is about a rule for anything you do. (examples: you can't ride a bike until you're a 9. You can't be rude, or ask a question that might fall under rudeness.) In this town you aren't 9 yrs old, you're a 9. That's how it is with every age. Every year a ceremony is held for each age. Every year you may get something that changes you a little. But the ceremony of Twelves is the most important of them all. It is when the council tells each twelve what he is to do for his occupation. The council watches every child until the age of twelve to see what job they think fits each individual best. When Jonas is chosen as the town's new giver, he is frightened. What if he messes up like another young person did several years ago. This job is told to come with lots of pain. But, Jonas sees none when he comes to his first meetings. Then he learns of pain he has never known of, thought of, or could have ever possibly imagined. It is a struggle for Jonas. One he could have never thought up.
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Summary: The Giver book
Review: Jonas lives in a utopian society, with no pain, no war, no sickness's, and no crimes. In this community there is only one person who holds the key to both pleasure and truth, this person is known as The Giver. When twelve year old Jonas is asigned to become the community's "receiver of memories"and is exposed to the secrets that he and most of his community has been kept from for many years, he realizes that his world is far from perfect. With the Guidance of the Giver, he slowly comes to realize exactly how unperfect and costly his perfect world really is
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Summary: Exquisite, enspiring, wonderful all around
Review: Jonas lives in a world where everything is done for him and everything is chosen for him. He has no idea of the outside world. This story is wonderful. He meets the Giver, a man who is the only one in the community who has experienced true joy and grief. Jonas must recieve from him, but Jonas can't handle it, he must do something. He doesn't feel safe anymore. The Giver will help him. He will face something with bravery and heart, to truly see through the eyes of the Giver. Masterpiece! Loved it like crazy! Touching, but unreal.
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Summary: Deep thoughts
Review: Jonas lives in a world without choice. Everything is cared for. No one goes hungry. No one feels pain. To live in this world, the people have given up all their choices and emotions. The Giver details how Jonas becomes the reciever of memory for his community. He learns about the pain and the emotions of their past, and he and the giver take action.
I found that the book was well written, and rich with symbolics. If you were to look into it deeply you could see what it was telling you. I did not like however, that the actual story did not seem to have a real solid plotline. There was no real cause and effect. There was no reasoning. It seemed like a bunch of random incidents tacked togeather to create a meaning.
Overall though, it is a good book that will wrap you around it's finger for a few hours and leave you wanting more. Just wanting a bit too much more for my liking.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: Jonas lives in his community not knowing how wonderful the world could be. As a reciever of memories he slowly gets to know the qualities that a community could have and realizes how boring and miserable the perfectly controlled community is. Now he tries to find the Elsewhere and wants to reach a better world. Apart from that, this book leaves open a lot of questions, for example: "Who created this community?" and the important one, °What happens to Jonas?" Summing up it was an exciting book and I recommend it to every person of every age.
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Summary: A good book that is great for mainly young-adult readers.
Review: Jonas lives in the distant future. He was brought into a world without pain and hunger and he going to have the time of his life after he was appointed the Reciever of his community. The Giver, his trainer, will teach him some of the life styles people lived back then. The author, Lois Lowry, treated the subject of the story with a certain passion, trying to let the "young people" to learn that there isn't always pain but there is also love. I recommend this book to mainly young-adult readers. The literacy work is great to capture the young minds of today's readers. I thought is was a good book, this is why I have rated this book four stars.
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Summary: A moving, timely book
Review: Jonas lives in the ideal community, or so it seems. Everyone seems so content and safe. Doors are left unlocked, even during the night. However, Jonas soon finds out that there are sinister secrets lurking behind the pleasant veneer of his community. Can he save himself before it is too late?The winner of numerous awards, including the 1994 Newbery Medal, this book expertly draws in the reader. Author Lois Lowry sprinkles forboding hints throughout the story as more and more clues are doled out. This thought-provoking book leaves the reader speculating the outcome even after the ending. This is the kind of book that I could read again and again and never forget. It also contains an important lesson to society - security comes with a price.
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Summary: An Eye-Opener!
Review: Jonas lives in world where everything is under control. Everything is planned out for everyone, and everyone is the same. If someone breaks a rule, they are released from the community. Jonas is selected to be the next 'Receiver of Memories' the person who gathers the memories of the past. This job includes pain, sorrow, and happiness. Jonas realizes that the world he lives in is not all that great after all. I have heard that this book has been banned from some schools, and personally, I think that is ridiculous. These are the only reasons that the book has been banned: a 12 year old having sensual feelings toward a girl he likes, and injecting a deadly needle into someone who is being released. Ok, well the injecting is not really pleasant, but the reader does not need to focus on that. For this book focuses on more important issues that that. The Giver gives an important message to people: Living in a world where there is independence and choices is better than living in a world where everything is perfect. Lois Lowry did an awesome job making this book. I like the way she always kind of hinted that the perfect world was not that good after all. I recommend this book to people ages 10 and up. HAPPY READING!
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Summary: The Giver bites
Review: Jonas never knew that there was more out there. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas lives in a totally controlled society, it is so controlled they can't even see color. In this story, the government controls everything. I do not like this book because it is written in a very formal style. Besides that, I think others might like this book because it is an interesting idea for a story.
This book is about a boy named Jonas whose life is totally changed when he turns thirteen. He gets a very special job. Because of his job, he gets emotional. He can see colors and he can know the pain of the past. This job is unique because only one person is chosen for it. After a couple of months working he realizes what a terrible world he lives in and decides to go elsewhere to change his life.
This book is written in a formal way that middle school kids might not understand. All the characters talk in a really stiff way. For instance, when Asher speaks angrily to Jonas, he then says "I apologize for not paying you the respect you deserve." The language is hard to read, and this makes the book it confusing. There are common terms, like "released", that seem unfamiliar because they are used in a different way than I am used to. The type of dialogue the author uses makes the book hard to read.
I would recommend this book for people who do not like action. This book is very slow. After I had read four two weeks, nothing had happened. I prefer book that are exiting like when you get into something right away. The story however had an interesting. Them that might interest some people.
I seriously did not like this book. The dialog was confusing and it was incredibly slow. If there was a bit more action, I might have liked it. However just because I did not like this book, does not mean you will not.
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Summary: The Giver
Review: Jonas started off as being an eleven year old boy in a community where there are no colours, feelings or thoughts about sexuality. Jonas is nervous about the Ceremony, where he will become a Twelve, and, consequently, be assigned the role he will play in his community. Jonas does not know what he will be chosen to do. Will the Chief Elder make him become a Recreation Director or maybe a Nurturer, like his father? However, he is suddenly assigned the role of Receiver of Memory. The present Receiver of Memory, called The Giver, is getting old and it is his duty to transmit all of his memories of the past to the new Receiver before The Giver is released. Through the lessons of The Giver, Jonas learns about warmth, tranquility, serenity and love. However, The Giver must also give Jonas memories of hunger, loneliness, war and death. After a startling discovery about what happens to the old and sickly newborns, Jonas prepares a plan with The Giver. But when Jonas's plan suddenly burns to ashes, he spontaneously decides to take matters into his own hands. What he does and his journey after his decision will surely startle readers' tremondously. The incertain future of Jonas will make readers' like me wonder whether there will actually be a light at the end of the tunnel for Jonas and whether Jonas's community will finally change and let people have their own feelings. The Giver is a beautiful story filled with morals that will make humans understand that pain is sometimes necessary in order for us to enjoy the happiness that comes afterwards.
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