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The Giver by Lois Lowry MAG
After reading The Giver, I was left confused and disappointed. It seemed as if it would be interesting, but you can't judge a book by its cover. The contents were dull and predictable. Quite honestly, I wouldn't recommend it to any reader seeking a fine piece of literature. It just doesn't suffice.
The Giver is about a young boy named Jonas. He resides in a futuristic society in which each citizen is assigned a job, a spouse, and children. The children are born to mothers who will never get to see them. Trying not to give anymore away, I will only say that Jonas is assigned an important job and is challenged with the release of an innocent child. Jonas is left with the option of leaving his home, job, and family to save the child, or facing the harsh reality of his community and job, and enduring the release of the child.
This book was dreadful. I became more and more dissatisfied with each page. It was a waste of time and hardly made sense. I'll admit, there were a few interesting lines, but far too few to continue reading after the first chapter. Although I finished it, I regret doing so. It was, by far, the worst book I've ever picked up. It proved to be mediocre, no better than what the average person could conceive. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
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Great review! Well written and nice. But I totally disagree; The Giver is one of my fvorite books. Also, if you read "gathering blue" by Lois Lowry, it ties up some loose ends from "the giver" and helps you understand it fully.
I so agree that the end was abrupt and I wasn't sure what happened to Jonas. And Gathering Blue" helps you determine the end of the book.
Yep! Two other books in the series. :)
-Lilac
Everything about the giver was deep. It takes a very analytical mind. The point of the book can be summed up in one question: Can you have happiness, joy, love, and peace without pain, heartbreak, sadness, and suffering.
Lois Lowry did an excellent job telling of just might happen should the government ever try to take away the difficult parts of life. Keeping in account that everything about The Giver is symbolic for something else:
Jonas - Jonah of the Bible
Gabriel - The archangel
The Giver/Jonas/Gabriel - As Christ
Even if Lois isn't a proclaimed Christian, writers have been drawing parallels between their works and the Bible for centuries.
I thought that The Giver was an awesome story about just how far people would go to make life easier and about the realities and relationships between pain and joy, love and hate, peace and suffering, happiness and sadness...
Lol, yeah, I figured out what "released" meant almost right away too, but it still shocked me to find out I was right.
-Lilac
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Favorite Quote:
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
-Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
I very strongly disagree with you! Lois Lowry is one of my favorite authors, and this is my favorite book by her. I absolutely love the story and the way it makes the reader think. I believe every single person should read this book.
However, I do appreciate you being honest and telling your opinion, even if it is unpopular! Honestly, this is the only time I have ever heard something bad about this book besides the controversy surrounding it (which is completely ridiculous, by the way).
Your review was well-written, too.