The Giver is one of the first dystopian novels I've read that's more along the lines of a utopia. The world in this book was a place created in an attempt to make the perfect society where everyone is exactly equal. To try to keep people satisfied with this life they erased everyone's memories of the past, except for one person, the keeper of memories, so that they wont make the same mistakes as people in the past. This book has great writing, plot, and character development. The story is one of my all time favorites. And I highly recommend it to everyone.
The Giver (The Giver Quartet)
By Lois Lowry
Book 1 of 4 in the
The Giver Quartet Series
| Interest Level | Reading Level | Reading A-Z | ATOS | Word Count |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grades 4 - 8 | Grades 3 - 8 | Y | 5.7 | 43617 |
It's a perfect world, where everything looks right. But ugly truths lie beneath…
Imagine a world without poverty, war or pain. A world where everything is comfortable and familiar - a world where everything is the same. No colour, no music. In such a world, Jonas is selected to be the next Receiver of Memory and is apprenticed to the Giver, an old man who stores memories from the Community’s past. As Jonas learns about violence and sadness, as well as beauty and joy, he discover the sinister truth behind his safe existence.
Simply and beautifully written, The Giver is a thought-provoking look at utopian society. It was awarded the Newbery Medal in 1994.
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
ISBN-13: 9780547995663
ISBN-10: 0547995660
Published on 9/25/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
Book Reviews (285)
Jonas lives in a world very different from ours. Everyone looks and acts relatively the same. There are many rules and practices. For instance, every year depending on your age, you earn or lose something. Like one year you get a bike or another year you lose your stuffed animal. At age 12, Jonas and all the other 12's will be given their jobs that they will have for the rest of their life. Jonas is given a special job called the Receiver of Memory. Jonas starts to learn from the present Receiver of Memory about how the world used to be like. Jonas's thoughts on his life change as he learns more about how life used to be.
The Giver is an AMAZING book! There is alot of imagery that pulls you into the book. When Jonas ( the main character) goes and breaks the rules in the end it makes the book more thrilling. I wish the book carried on and didnt stop where it did.
To me this book can be interpreted different ways, but it is simply about a boy learning about feelings and reality in a world where people's differences are removed. It is a sad, dystopian book with a cliffhanger at the end. You never know if the main character survived or died.
The giver is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a perfect community. Everyone’s needs are met. No one has to worry about starvation, or war. It simply doesn’t exist! I love this book and I recommend it to anyone who loves books too!!!!!!!!
This book is really well written with all the intense characters and interesting plot. In a world where everything is the same, you feel no emotion or pain. Except for one person, The Giver.
The Giver by Lois Lowry is a lovable, thrilling, sit down and read book. I love this book because you feel the characters emotions, and it is like you are right there with them instead of just reading about them. While reading this book, I laughed, cried, and felt the emotions of the troubled characters in this book. I highly recommend this book to others.
Jonah is an 11 year old kid in a community where there is no pain of any kind, but no love either. The community he lives in forces him to take a shot and pill every day to avoid color coming through his eyes and feelings coming from his heart. Once he turns 12, he is assigned a job like everyone else in his age group. He is assigned as the highly-esteemed Receiver of Memories. The Receiver of Memories is a job where a very special candidate must be transferred memories of the past from the previous Receiver. While training with the Receiver (who asks Jonah to call him the Giver), Jonah learns of colors, holidays, weather, happiness, pain, and so much more. He learns why his society excludes as many choices as possible from its residents. Using his knowledge and the help of the Giver, he takes a special baby named Gabriel to escape the community and have a better life. At the time this novel was written, Lois Lowry had unintentionally started an amazing quartet of books that become interwoven. This book is great, but reading the entire series will make your day, and you'll see the future that Jonah made for himself and Gabriel.
This was an awesome book! It's about Jonas who lives in a colorless world that is supposed to be perfect. However, he receives an assignment as "The Reciever" - which causes his entire world to change. I loved the mystery of this book and it kept me wanting to know what would happen next.
I cannot tell you how much I loved this book. Jonas lives in a society that is perfect. Everyone has enough food, clothes, relationships, jobs, education, and everything the same. Jonas doesn't think much of the sameness, how could he he has grown up with it all his life. But Jonas is forced to ask himself, if sameness really the best choice for everyone when he is assigned the job as the Reciever of Memory. He cannot fail his job which is to keep all of the rest of the memories of things other than sameness for himself. As Jonas learns more secrets his whole world is turned upside down.