The Giver by Laurel Leaf

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The Giver by Laurel Leaf Utterly amazing
This is, quite possibly, one of the most amazing books I have ever read. It's a world that could be completely real someday, which alone is frightening enough. I found it almost impossible to put this book down and would have loved it to be even longer. But it's tight and emotional and I can't wait to read anything Lois Lowry has written.
The Giver by Laurel Leaf still one of my favorites, even today..
I read this book in grade school back in the 90's, and I still love it today. It's one of my all-time favorites..everything about it. It really makes you think..and just appreciate people for their differences. Our flaws are what bring color to the world. I didn't find one bit of it boring or as some said "disturbing". I don't see why a 9 or 10 year old kid wouldn't be able to read it. It's not like a horror novel or something.
The Giver by Laurel Leaf Nothing less than astonishing
When author Lois Lowry regularly visited her parents in a nursing home, she noticed that her father was physically well but his memory was going, while her mother's memory was good but her body was failing. According to a 2004 interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, this gave her the inspiration for her Newbery Award-winning novel, The Giver: "I began to think a lot about the concept of memory. When it was time for me to begin a new book, I began to create in my mind a place and a group of people who had somehow found the capacity to control memory." Jonas lives in a utopian society where rules, discipline, politeness, similarity, and daily medication rule the day. The only time that differences are celebrated is during the Ceremony of 12: when twelve-year-old children are assigned their careers, based on meticulous observation of how they spend their volunteer hours. While his peers are given jobs like working with the elderly, and Assistant Director of Recreation, Jonas is selected to be the community's next Receiver of Memory. Training him is the current Receiver, whose task is to pass on all the community's "memories" to Jonas -- thus turning the Receiver into The Giver. It is during this long series of scenes that Lowry really gets her point across, as Jonas learns more about his fellow residents that anyone but other Receivers has ever known, and he slowly discovers just to what lengths his community has gone to get the result it desired. There is much more to the story, but describing it here would take away from the experience of reading this wonderful novel that has become a sort of Brave New World for modern readers. Lowry's ability to choose exactly the right word is not surprising for a story that considers a lack of "language precision" to be worthy of punishment. The way she reveals piece by piece the myriad things that this "perfect" community is lacking, making for a level of suspense that rivals an Alfred Hitchcock film, is nothing less than astonishing.
The Giver by Laurel Leaf The Giver
My Book Review for The Giver by Christina The Giver is a science fiction book by Lois Lowry. It's a very intriguing book because it draws you in and you wonder why their life is like that and how it affects their world and why. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas in a certain kind of community; in our world we say we're eleven years old, but in Jonas's community they are called "elevens". At certain ages they get special things. For example, when they're a "nine", they get their own bike to ride and when they are a "twelve", they are assigned a job in the community. Jonas is assigned as the receiver. It's a very important job that is painful while fun to him. This book is one of Lowry's best. It takes on a really powerful perspective and it shows that someone else's life could be a whole lot different than ours. Gathering Blue (another book with a similar plot) is a good companion to The Giver, because the main characters know how to deal with challenges that come through their life. They show that even if their world is different, we could have similar problems. Maybe it's not the same, but maybe it's a lot alike. Overall, I hope that many more people read this book. It's not really popular and well known, but I think it would be a very good book to enjoy while you are in 4th grade-Adult, if you've read it when you were younger or older than these ages, it's fine as long as you enjoyed this book.
The Giver by Laurel Leaf A reminder of why we sacrifice
The Giver is powerful for its demonstration that life without tension is not really life at all. We can always try to smooth over or hide another bump in the road, another cause of stress or discomfort. But, in doing so, we only deceive ourselves and take away from the most worthwhile part of existence. Without pain, loss, and difference, we can not have love, hope, and the vibrancy of life. This is a warning that we must be willing to risk our deepest selves to truly live.
The Giver by Laurel Leaf Product Description
When Jonas turns 12, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver--who alone holds memories of pain and pleasure in life. Now there can be no turning back from the truth. Paperback.
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In a world with no poverty, no crime, no sickness and no unemployment, and where every family is happy, 12-year-old Jonas is chosen to be the community's Receiver of Memories. Under the tutelage of the Elders and an old 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 Brave New World, in this 1994 Newbery Medal winner, Lowry examines the idea that people might freely choose to give up their humanity in order to create 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 price.