The Giver: A Newbery Award Winner

** spoiler alert ** It was a decent read, but the characters didn't have much depth. Jonas was the only one well developed. For a childrens/young adult book I guess this shouldn't be surprising. It reminded be of Brave New World and The City of Ember. City of Ember because of the children being forced into lifelong careers so early in life. Brave New World because of the family structures and lack of individuality within the society. Really, it's like political correctness gone horribly, madly wrong. It's rude to touch someone, to look at their body, to interrupt them, to even FEEL something for them is forbidden. The casualness of 'release' had me screaming in my head "Soylent Green is people" through most of the book. Thankfully we never see if that's true. **spoiler** I see there are further books in the series, but looking at the synopsis it doesn't appear that any one of them is a continuation of any other story. While Jonas was traveling over the mountains I got the impression he and Gabe didn't make it. I may pick up the other stories, since my wife has them in her classroom, but I just didn't feel all that excited by this one to compel me to seek out the others.

I actually had to read this book for my 8th grade reading class.I have actually longed to read this book. This book brings you to a world that you may, or I mean, I have compared it to our lives right now countless times. When it reached the climax, it almost seemed to me like the main plot/conflict of the story has just begun, and all that it had in the beginning was still the introduction to the Community and their Lives. Although the ending of the story was very nice, I think there should be a sequel to it. I have to admit that the end kind of let me hanging, like the author actually had more to this story. Whatever this book may bring you to, I definitely recommend you and anyone out there to read this book.

this book is astounding and wonderful i love the part where the giver shows the reciver(jonas) his memories i think it was the memory of snow and i love how jonas starts seeing colors that nobody else can see i think this books is powerful and i will reccomand this book to anybody who loves adventure and secret powers. I just never read a book so powerful and expressive as this book the giver i would love to publish my books someday. someday i want to be like my aunt suzzane weyn who also writes books like the bar code tattoo, distant waves, night dance, the retelling of the frog prince etc. I also want to write a powerful book like lois lowery.