The Giver by Lois Lowry Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Giver
Book Review: *~ My book reveiw of The Giver~*
Summary: 4 Stars
I would only recomend this book to a person who would like to take adventure and want to learn new things. The book is very adventoures and different. I enjoyed the book personally because it brought to me new feelings I didn't know I had.It brought color to my soul and definitly made me think I took everything for granteed.To live in a community so isolated would make me want to realy run away and not want to come back.I know I don't share the same feelings as Jonas does ,but I think now I know how Jonas had felt.Book Review: 10th grade from Augsburg, Germany
Summary: 4 Stars
Jonas, the eleven-year-old protagonist, lives in a community some time in the future, where everybody is equal and controlled by the leaders of the community. No one in this place has feelings or memories of the past, but after Jonas becomes the new Receiver of Memories, everything changes for him. He receives feelings and memories that makes him realize the sad state his community is in. Therefore he makes a plan to escape...
The Giver is a story about a fictional society in the future. The reader can realize how important feelings and emotions are for our lives, especially if compared to the unemotional lives of the members of the community. At the beginning the book is not very exciting until Jonas becomes twelve and is assigned his job. From this moment the pace of the plot increases and the story gets more interesting.
Besides you will understand how important it is to make your own choices and to be allowed to have real feelings. Sometimes the book is even a bit shocking, because a few events are very extreme.
In our opinion there are two important messages:
1 You should better make your own decisions and you shouldn't believe and trust everything that you are told.
2 Problems are necessary in our life. If you never had any difficulties like hunger and suffering, you can't enjoy the very good things and feelings
Read this book! But we can only recommend the book to people who are prepared to think about it intensively and to deal with the topic or to those who are interested in futuristic stories. Children should be able to talk to someone about it who can help them to process the information. The book gives you a great understanding of many important things that make up social life.
Book Review: 7.3J.I.M.
Summary: 4 Stars
This book was very interesting and mysterious. It was almost like you were in a different world. The people couldn't see color. They didn't know about many of the things we have, for example weather. They also thought animals were imaginary. It was amazing how much was taken away from them. Even their emotions were taken away from them. They kept trying to make a more civilized society. Though they seemed to get more cruel.For example, they didn't even care when they killed a twin of a baby just because they had a twin. They were very mysterious about all the deaths and the memories that the main character Jonas is suppose to receice. Though he thinks it is unfair to the people that they can't have the memories and feel the beautiful feeling like love. Though along with these beautiful and invigorating memories he has to recieve terrible ones of war. Though sometimes there is a price to pay for true happiness to be discovered. Overall I think this book was mysterious and also a bit sadning at parts like when the people were lost.
Book Review: 7.3apo
Summary: 4 Stars
I think that overall The Giver is a fantastic book. It had all kinds of genres to it. It had at least three. For instance it had fiction, suspense, and sadness.The fictional part about it was that none of this could have ever happened in real life except for the more logical things like food and clothing. The suspense was at the end of the bool when Jonas and Gabriel ran away. It had you keep reading to see if they would survive. It was sad because if someone had twins the lightest one would be killed(Released) and there's no freedom in the Community.
Book Review: 8th grade
Summary: 5 Stars
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.