The Giver by Lois Lowry Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of The Giver
Book Review: A Clever Book
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great and powerful book about an 11 year old boy named Jonas who lives in a strict comunnity, and is given the assighnment of RECIVER at age 12. As reciver, Jonas's job is to have memories of various things, good and bad, transfered into his his brain by a man called THE GIVER. Lois Lowry is very creative. When this book ends, you will be very sad, because there so many questions unanswered, and you just want to keep reading it, or if someone is reading it TO you, you will want to keep listening. The ending is differant depening on how you think about it. I rate it ages 9 and up. I think this is a wounderful book. Read it!Book Review: A Colorless world of Perfection
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not the kind of person who reads one book more than once in a short period of time but the Giver was an exception. The first time I read it I couldn't put it down. I read through math class, through dinner, after my parents told me to turn my light off I read it with a flashlight under my covers until I was done. For the next month I couldn't get it out of my head (the first sign of a good book) so I picked it up again. I read for what seemed like barely minutes but must have been hours because by the time I stopped I was more than half way through. I seriously got lost in the Giver and I have a feeling I will need to read it quite a few more times before the year is over.
This book is about a perfect era. There is no pain. There is no fear. There is no sorrow. But there is also no love, no color, no music, no snow, no pure joy. Everything is planned and calculated so there are no choices. There are rules for everything. When you get too old, break the rules three times, or are simply a baby that won't develop fast enough, you are released, sent Elsewhere. But Elsewhere isn't what the people are led to believe. Children don't live with the people who gave birth to them but with a 'family unit,' two people who applied for spouses; babies. There is only one person who remembers what used to be, who remembers love, color, music, choice. He is the Reciever of Memory. The Giver.
I guess I don't really have much original to say about this book that hasn't been analysed and discussed thouroughly already, but just imagine if that is our future, total sameness. No individuality, no pride, simply sameness. If that is what we are to become, than what is the true cost of pain? It's true that war must end and that starvation is torturous, but I think we can fix these things without getting rid of love.
I think everyone should read this book. It is a bit disturbing and it makes you think, but it is not jut your ordinary fluffly little kid's book. Some people commented that because it was about a perfect place it wasn't exciting or scary. But it was the perfectness that scared me. Now I know that perfection has a cost. And that even that whicg appeears perfect could be, in fact, sheilding the lies.
Book Review: A Community Custom
Summary: 5 Stars
In this astonishing novel, a boy named Jonas is turning twelve years old. In the community of which he lives in, a celebration is held each time that you turn a year older. During the celebration, or ceremony you are expected to do a specific job or play a specific role. Adulthood is very important in this community because turning twelve is a big deal and it puts you up a step toward maturity. At the Ceremony of Twelve, you receive a job, or your role in the community. Considering Jonas is turning twelve this year, he is expected to get his role in society, along with his friends Asher and Fiona. Asher hopes that his role in society will be the one that has to do with taking care of kids and Fiona hopes that her role is the one that will have to do with taking care of the elderly. Jonas doesn't really mind of what role he gets, but he hopes that it will be something that will suit him well. When the big day finally comes, Jonas gets a job that he will soon get to love. This role will suit him very well. He begins to learn things about his community and has a knowledge of things that only he and his teacher are allowed to know about. He also learns about the people who have been "released" from the community.
This book is both suspenseful and rush-fulfilling. In this book, you are always waiting for the huge moment of what Jonas's role in the community will be. Once you find out the role he plays, you will want to keep reading to see what will be the outcome of what he learns and how his experience will eventually turn out.
-A.B.-
Book Review: A Community with too much Control
Summary: 4 Stars
A Review by JasonThe 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.
Book Review: A Cool Kid Frum Ballwin Missouri at LSMS
Summary: 5 Stars
With sameness in a community, no one can experience real pain. In The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, no one has inflicted pain on him or her. Even if they fall off their bike they have never felt it. In the ending I think that he went to a community that actually has pain and suffering. He also hasn't heard music before. He has only heard it in his memories. With these memories that are giver by the giver, he has to suffer with them.
I think that the ending really implies that he has re-entered his old community. They have taken in the memories while he was gone. Just like when Rosemary "Released" herself and the community got all of the lost memories. With these new memories, they have been able to see the colors and feel love. Now they have opened a door to the past that is a memory. These memories are the key for how they survive.
I recommend this book to a person that has really good imagination. With this imagination, you can understand the ending very well and that is why I have comprehended the ending. The ending is a little hard to understand because of the sudden stop that is on the last page, it just says all of the things about the community, and it never states what the community says or does to him. The ending is very hard to understand, but I think I chose the right one. I chose this ending because there have been many hints to describe it. For example, the planes just stopped coming. I think that someone had seen them when they had that really close encounter. Another reason is that they had described many curves in the road. This has given an obvious reason that they had gone in a circle. He had also said that he had recognized the face in the crowd. That makes it just plain obvious that he had come back to his old community when he saw this.
I think that Lois Lowry should come out with The Giver 2. In this book she should write about the new community. This should put a better ending on the book. Then people wouldn't think this book is so weird. I'm not saying that this book is bad or anything, I'm just saying that this book was had to understand for some people.
If this book were banned from all schools, then the people wouldn't know what it would be like to be in this kind of community. If this book is banned, then many books like this will be banned. For example, a book with Hitler in it will be banned. If this book is banned, then people won't learn about history and a book that talks about drugs or war will be banned. If this happens then the whole world will change.