Book: The
Giver
Author: Lois
Lowry
My opinion
about the book
Date:
13/1/2012
The book at the beginning it is not
really interesting because the author doesn’t give enough information about the
year and the place so it is a little bit confusing and a little bit mysterious.
Although I like mysteries, this is a different kind because you don’t know in
what time of period it is and it has so many modern but also old things that
you get confused. Also they leave in a place that they have no weather, they
don’t have emotions and feelings and they have so many laws that you must obey
but if they seem so not important to us. Another thing is that they can’t see
color, thing that I didn’t expect at the beginning.
The beginning of the book made me
appreciate all the things we have such as televisions, phones, weather, colors,
not that strict rules and we don’t have to work from the age of 12. Also we
have our own parents and siblings and we can have as many sisters and brothers
and none will tell us anything, we actually know our relatives (grandpa,
grandma) and we don’t leave in a world full of lies.
At the middle of the book, we find
out at the ceremony of twelve’s that Jonas was chosen/selected to be the
Receiver of Memories, I didn’t know at the beginning what that meant because it
hasn’t been mentioned at the previous chapters, and it was interesting to read
what it actually was. Then he starts his
work and the rules that he have are much different that the other’s job. The
fact that he can actually lie now and before was not aloud it was very strange
for him but also for the reader that he couldn’t apply for release (that it is
actually death) and he can’t take medicines or something to help his pain when
it was caused during his work.
At the last part, Jonas wanted to
escape and he did but he also took Gabe because the following day she would be
released. The first few days planes were searching for him but he was hiding
and he transferred memories of cold to Gabe (really weird since a few people
have this honor of receiving memories) so he couldn’t be seen in the radars of
the planes that found people with the heat of their body. At last I really
wanted to know if they finally made it to go to Elsewhere but the author
stopped it a little bit suddenly so I really want to know the ending.
At last but not least, I really
liked the book from when I read after the middle and I would definitely suggest
it at people to read it!
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