The Giver
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- ISBN13: 9780385732550
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When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. Now, it’s time for Jonas to receive the truth. There is no turning back.Amazon.com Review
In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family tree is pleased, 12-year-ancient Jonas is chosen to be the community’s Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an ancient man known as the Giver, he discovers the disturbing truth about his utopian world and struggles against the weight of its hypocrisy. With echoes of Courageous New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the thought that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to make a more stable society. Gradually Jonas learns just how costly this ordered and pain-free society can be, and boldly decides he cannot pay the fee.
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BAD. I despise this book, im currently being made to read it along with my additional classmates in Reading clas. I do not like it, and i dont know how you additional people can. But hey, each to his own. The only way i would reccomend this to a name is if you paid me a million dollars, and even then i would take the money, then write the reccomendation on a sticky note, and place it on the fridge. Only read this if you dont have ANYTHING ELSE TO DO.
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PS- Sorry if some of you feel like I bashed a favorite book of yours. But hey……… i have a right to free speech.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I couldn’t end this book, but I got far enough through it to know that I didn’t like it. It is sort of a gated community slash perfect world type setting, where nothing really appealing ever happens. Duh!!!
Trevor
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
“The Giver” is as troubling as Jackson’s fleeting tale, “The Lottery.” I do not recommend this book for minors of any age: In one scene, the protagonist, as well as additional 12-year olds, bathe adults in order to springboard the main character’s budding awareness of sexuality and to introduce how the community controls its birth rate. This topic is absolutely inappropriate. Secondly, the leader is very proud of her nonconclusive ending. It leaves a terrible taste in the mouth and leaves the reader unsatisfied for the time and effort expended to read the book.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I gave this book a one because some of the ideals in the book are different from my personal beliefs, for instance when the newborn twins were weighed and one was killed because weight was less.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This book is silly. The characters are unreallistic, the setting is impossible, and the premise is stupid. First of all, the concept of color. If a communist state can make people genetically colorblind, then why not just make colorblind people not colorblind. And how could they allow a genetic sport to occur. Why would they allow that individuality if they placed such emphasis on communal culture. And it is terribly obvious that this book was not written by a name raised in a communist government. The conditioning even in the USSR, which did not have nearly as controlled an environment as the society in this book, was nearly perfect. It was rare to find a name who did not have fanatical devotion to the point of suicide. On top of that, the real problem with communism is an economic one that I won’t get into. Communism is in a perpetual spiral toward economic collapse. No communist society could ever survive as long as this one did. Now, this mysterious ability that the “Giver” and the “Receiver” have to pass on and receive memories. I will not attack the ability, because I judge in reading a book on its own ground. But if this ability is not genetic, then why wouldn’t everyone have it? and if it is genetic, then why aren’t the people with that genetic capability identified at a young age so that the can start preparation for their training? There’s more I could say, but I don’t reflect that this book is worth the effort.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5