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Literature Circle Guides: The Giver (Grades 4-8)

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I thought this was good for explaining to my students the meaning of the Giver and how important it was. I recommend for any teacher.

I read this book at school. At first it was really confusing and kind of weird, but when I read on everything fell into place. It's a great book full excitement and suspense. ....The ending of the book can be confusing but it lets you decide for yourself which is a good thing to learn how to do. I recommend this book from people ages 13 and up, because some things in the book are a little more for older people.

The Giver
By. Lois Lowry

The Giver is a story about a community that is completely different then ours The main character is a boy named Jonas that was a normal kid, until something changed his life forever! It was...
His job. He was selected to be the receiver of memory which is the most dangerous, respected and hardest job. His job was to receive the memories that the community would be scared of or they are not allowed to have. This is my favorite book because it is full of excitement! But the book is quite sad, But I'm not going to give that part away. I think the giver is the best book in the world!

This is a really good book. This book makes you think about the future. I dont like to read that much but this book made me want to read.If you don't like to read this book will make you read. I strongly recommend this book.

I thought that this was a really good book except the ending. I thought it was confusing. I didn't know what to think of it, like it was so confusing and there are so many things that could have happened! There wasn't any real story, like you had to choose it for yourself. That is one thing that I don't like about books. I like the book to tell the story not me. :):( Otherwise it was a really good book! Lois Lowry must have a wild imagination to think of such a strange book! I mean who would think of writing a book like that! It is a strange book but there are lots of good lessons in it!!!!! I would definantly recommened this book to anyone that is looking for something good to read! If you are looking for a great book read this book!

In the giver Jonas and his family live in a community where they have lots of different rules than us. They can't ride a bike until their 9,in their family they have a mom a dad and a boy and a girl and they can't have any more or less. They don;t even know their grand parents because they get released before they are even born. And when they are old enough they will get assigned their wife or husband and then they will also get given their daughter and son. Every year they have a very important day which is the day of the ceremony when all the kids turn the next age and if your turn 12 then u will get assigned your assignment(which is their job.)And Jonas gets the give which is a very very important job. And they all have to go though 1 year of training for their job till they can take over. Jonas has a very hard year of the training and gets through it easy for him.

Id recommend this book if you like books that take a while to get interesting but otherwise it's a really good book.

The Giver is a wonderfully unique story of a Community set aside from the rest of the world. Lois Lowry takes the reader on a journey through Utopia, or so it seems. On the surface everything seems ideal. The reader soon realizes there is a heavy price to be paid for this serene existence.
Jonas has been selected. He has been given the highest honor in the Community. He will be trained as the new Receiver. Life will never be the same for this "Twelve" again. Jonas has been chosen to bear the burden of memories. Only two people share this burden, Jonas and the Giver.
The Giver soon realizes that to help the Community, Jonas must escape. He must leave his life so that others in the community are made to bear the burden of memories. It is decided that the Giver will stay to help the people cope with the flood of memories that will occur when Jonas is gone.
Lowry dangles questions in the minds of her readers to the very end of the story.
Jonas appears to have made the great escape to Elsewhere (the world outside of the Community). Lowry does, however, leave the reader questioning the "escape". Did Jonas really get away? Did he die?
This book is well deserving of the Newbery Medal. It allows the reader to view life from a unique perspective, questioning the very heart of his belief system. A truly thought provoking story; this book is filled with twists and turns to keep the reader intrigued to the very end.

The giver!
In the Giver Jonas is turning 12 years old and when the 11's are turning 12 they have a big ceremony and give you an assignment or like a job that you train for. And at different ages they get different things not like our live's like how we buy them whenever we want. The comity chooses you're job for you. They are some thing's that they are not allowed to say or say at that certain time. In a family they have a mom, a dad, a boy and a girl. When they get their jobs that is your job for you're life. When you are older you get released and they have a big ceremony for that. The Comity assigned a job for you that's suits you so if u like building they wouldn't give you like Nurturer. And When they big Ceremony of 12 starts they all sit alphabetically and they call our your name and your assignment but when they miss Jonas, he starts to worry. They call his name last even though has number 19. They call him up and his new assignment is The Giver. They have to have training first before you can get your new job. In the community they have many rules and you have to follow them. They have their tracing for a full year and them they take over.

This book is very good, it is very different from any other book I've read. If you want to read a different book from others try this one it is a very good