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Title: The Giver by LOIS LOWRY, RON RIFKIN ISBN: 0-8072-6203-X Publisher: Listening Library Pub. Date: 27 February, 2001 Format: Audio CD Volumes: 4 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.34 (2169 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Giver by Colin McLean
Comment: Characters:Jonas, Lily, Jonas' Mom, Jonas' Dad,The Giver,Gabriel
Setting and Time: The setting is in so-called a perfect world with many different points of view of life. The time is really whenever you want it to be but I think it is in the future.
Review: After reading the book, "The Giver," written by Lois Lowry it changed my perspective towards life.
Jonas, a 12-year-old boy, living in is what to be a Utopia has just been selected to become the next, "Receiver of Memory," a very powerful job in the community. Everything is going well until Jonas finds out the truth about his community's past from The Giver. Jonas has feelings not many other people have and Jonas has a drastic plan to make the community differently. He takes with him his most precious being in his dwelling, Gabriel. Read this amazing book to find out its weird but great ending.
This book, "The Giver," conveys a feeling of confusion but as the story progresses all the knots in the story untie at the end of the book. This story is so abstract in most of the chapters you'll have to re-read the chapter for it to make sense. The book has a sense of belonging towards the end because of the book's actions. This book is well written and has been rewarded with a Newberry Honour Award. The book deserves this award for its continuous page turning action all the way to the end. The Giver is one of the best books I have read in my life. The Giver should have a chance to be read all cross the country by each student in grade 6, 7 and 8. This book should be read all over the world.
I give this book a four and a half stars out of five because it deserves a great deal of respect ans has little flaws that do jump out at the reader. I recommend this book to anyone over the age of 11 but they have to be mature enough to handle certain situations.
Rating: 4
Summary: Life Inside A Bubble
Comment: Hello. For those of you out there who haven't read The Giver, run out and buy it. Lois Lowery has strayed from her usual course of writing books for teenage girls, The Anastasia Series is a flicker in the past compared to The Giver. This book tackles a subject that most of us have never consider or read about before, a utopian society or "sameness". The Giver is about Jonas, one of the few "different" people in his community. In the book a special day is designated for all of the children in the community to have a sort of birthday party. Children who become a Nine will receive a bicycle and Twelve children, like Jonas, will have a job chosen for them. Jonas has been selected as a receiver, a very special assignment in the community. On his first day of training, Jonas receives something from The Giver that few in the society have ever gotten. A memory of a sled ride. At the end of every training session Jonas receives a happy memory, a rainbow, Christmas or a birthday, in addition to all the painful memories he may receive during training, like war, or a broken bone. Jonas and The Giver have been talking about how the conversion to sameness doesn't seem right anymore. They began to plot and this is where the story really begins. In my opinion this book is undoubtedly a good read, but is wanting in the adventure department. I love the new concept of "sameness", but it reminds me somewhat of Communism, everyone supposedly being of equal respect and opportunity. Although in reality no one can ever be the same. I enjoyed reading about Jonas and discovering what life in his community is like, but the book lacked something. Not until Jonas's escape did I get really into the book and even that wasn't too exciting. I enjoyed it, but definitely thought it could have been better. I hope that other people can get more out of it.
Rating: 5
Summary: 8th grade
Comment: First, I an an eighth grader at deerpath middle school, in lake forest, Il. Our class read this book as a project. I am in the lowest level of L.A.(our district's name for english) and I am not a great writer or reader, but after I got past the first three chapters, I finished this book in a day. This is amazing for me, I am a relativly slow reader, yet this book is so in depth,I found it impossable to but it down (I finished it 10 minutes ago) I have alwys been interstes in si-fi/futeristic books. The giver isnt si-fi at all, but it shows the terrors of communism and blindness in a easy to understand, and hard to out down package.
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