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Title: The Giver
by LOIS LOWRY
ISBN: 0-440-23768-8
Publisher: Laure Leaf
Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $6.50
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Average Customer Rating: 4.34 (2181 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: Amazingly Vivid
Comment: Can you imagine a place where the people that live there have no memories of the past, no emotions, no colors, and none of earth's wonders? The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in this kind of a community. Jonas is an 11-year-old boy that is about to turn twelve. He is soon to receive a job assignment because at that age one is considered an adult. At the birthday ceremony Jonas is chosen to be the only holder of memories in the community. Once Jonas receives a few, he realizes that his community isn't doing anything regularly. What will Jonas do to help his community see the error of its ways?
The Giver is a truly unique book because it tells about a different kind of lifestyle in a strange community. The author has characters who mention and follow rules such as the ones that say only one group of people can chose the job assignments for young adults, and that is quite different from our government, so that makes it interesting. You should read this book because it is very realistic and it has true emotions attached to the characters. When Jonas sees the way his community is living, his emotions of sadness, anger, and regret are extremely vivid. This book might appeal to you because it is an intriguing story that tells about a turning point in a young man's life. In the story Jonas is turning twelve and experiencing "stirrings." Also he becomes an adult in this book, and he has an extra responsibility. Etudier un d'ordinaire livre et experience joie!
(Read a book and experience joy!) This one certainly is a keeper.

Rating: 4
Summary: The Battle for Perfection is Lost on Both Sides
Comment: I loved the novel, The Giver. It exposed the advanced world of utopia and its problems. Although a utopian world has its benefits such as no poverty, hunger, and racism, it also restricts people from the simple benefits of life, such as being able to see colour, being able to make decisions on your own, and unexpected weather changes. Although a utopian life may be desirable to many, living life w/out these benefits isn't living life at all. Having a predictable and controlled environment is not at all satisfactory. Lois Lowry has shown this to us through the eyes of a 12-year old child, Jonas.

Another reason I like this book was because I had never read a story like it before. It is very different from the normal books that I have read because it expands on society. Each time I read it, it makes me think of how corrupt our society and world is. I want to change our government, not to the point where it's communist or utopian, but enough that we won't have to worry about money, hunger, or devastation. We would all have jobs and work to better ourselves. We would be the land of opportunity that we never were.

The book was going along smoothly until the very end. I believe the end was very abrupt and incomplete. It would have my final star if the last chapter had some sort of happy, if any, conclusion.

Rating: 5
Summary: it changed my life!!!
Comment: This book is the best i've ever read! It really changed my whole life! Cause of the book and its message, i found the sense of my life! I am so happy, that i can see colours and that i have feelings, and emotions. I prefer our to the receivers one, i prefer pain to never have been loved by anyone.
now, i am the happiest human alive,
love to all of you!
your ruth

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