Interview with Lois Lowry the author of "The Giver" If anyone wants to make extra money by taking free surveys that pay you here is the link again fca.sh/1jdq6
Me and my class had the ceremony of twelve to see what it was like to be assigned your job. Our teacher posted a picture of us on Twitter and she actually replied. My fav book now and movie
I read this book in the 6th grade and now as a sophomore in highschool got the lead role as Jonas for "The Giver" as a competition play. This book is terrifying because it is such a terrible world, yet it is exactly what society pushes us to.
I think it is frightning because of the setting it is placed. The Giver is settled in a utopia, and a utopia might as well be heaven! People do not want to be afraid of a utopia. But that's the point of the book. This book deserves a million Newberry Medals! It is a work of a true author and Lois Lowry put her heart into writing this book as well as her sweat and blood.
Huh. Maybe I'm weird, but I hated that community from the first chapter. I even have writing of me describing my hatred for it from the very first chapter.
Seriously all of you complaining about the ending!! Didn't you get it? Jonas got to the Elsewhere and in Christmas day to be precise. The memory he cherished the most he was going to LIVE it. That was the best fucking ending ever! I really don't understand how someone would hate it!!!
My students are reading this book and they are absolutely in love with it. What I like about it is how the book engages my students through suspense. The book gives them an idea of how society works and it makes them appreciate their own world as they compare it to Jona's strict and cruel world. I can see how some people feel that this book should be banned. There is a very small part in the story were Jonas dreams about asking a girl to get inside the bathtub naked to bath her. This can be very controversial. However, if this book ever gets banned, it would be such a shame. It is one amazing book that can easily turn a student who hates to read into a bookworm.
People think this book should be banned because of his thought about the girl in the bathtub? He is 12 and without his injections his hormones were no longer surpressed, so he thought of a girl in a setting where she would be naked. Wanting to wash her comes from their "pure" world and that is the only time that kind of situation including nudity and touching would happen. It is the closest thing to sexuality and affection he could imagine, but that doesn't mean it should be banned. This book has always been a clearly remembered favourite of mine since I read it in grade 5 or so.
As a teenager I found a few things about Jonas that were similar to myself. As an adult I am convinced of it. Jonas is like a symbol of hope, and how one person can change the world. Determination and truth can lead us to move past the mistakes and short comings of those before us. Jonas was chosen, bc he wasn't a follower. He questioned EVERYTHING about his life and the day to day things most overlook. When he realizes what "releasing" meant he knew he had to act quickly. His Love for Gabe and Pheona, coupled with the faith and knowledge instilled by the giver allowed him to save the entire community. Such an amazing story and movie.
I remember reading this book in 5th grade for the first time and I liked it. Now I'm a Senior in high school and I just finished reading it a couple of minutes ago. I absolutley LOVED it.
My theory for the book: At the end Jonas died but when he was seeing happy things he was thinking about all of his loved ones when we was going to haven. (Gabe didn’t die) When Jonas saw the giver, it gave him his memories back and he remembered the sled. So his spirit helped Gabe down the hill and pushed him into safety. When Jonas could feel the wind on his face, it was because he was watching over Gabe and remembering what that felt like. Jonas is Gabe’s protector and in haven giving Gabe strength. When Gabe got to the bottom of the hill, people came to recuse him. Jonas could hear the singing in the house from the people who rescued him and the lights were from the same house. I don’t know it’s just a theory
Thank you so much for this wonderful book and the insights it gave me, how it provoked me in a positive manner, now I can't wait to read the other books in this quartet!
My school is putting this play on:) I read it when I was younger and now I have such a better understanding of it cause its like I am living it. I play Mother:)
The book was a huge threat to those dark entity's who have kept humanity in slavery and darkness The boy woke up . If you are awake then you will understand this book different. thank the The ending was him going into the light ( magnetic field) Light is upon the planet
I only watched the movie but I feel like the kind of society that was portrayed in the book is the type of society that we could become in the future. In someways it reflects civilizations of the past.
This is such a great book.... a friend of mine suggest it wgen I was in the 8th grade. I saw it one day in my reading class on the book shelve and asked the teacher if I could read it.... at 1st I thought it was kinda boring but my friend told me to just keep reading.... and ass I kept reading it I fell in love with it! I found out when I was a senior in hs that they were required to read the book now in middle school..... its truly a great book!
My class just finished reading this book today and it was interesting. It always left me wanting to keep reading just to find out what happens next! We are now Supposed to write another finishing chapter to this book. Can't wait for the next One.
I remember in the book, before we knew what "releasing" meant, I was really puzzled, because you dont just really give a baby to "elsewhere", and when I saw a stage production today for my field trip, i realized it, and i almost cried when i heard Rose Mary was the Giver's daughter.... You'll find out what i mean if you read the book.
Lois Lowry, I really like your book. I think it is very interesting and eye opening. Why people want to ban the book, is simple. They don't want to 'scare' kids. It is thought provoking book with unique ideas that make you think of some unsettling things. But the things are true and are interesting. I don't think this book is bad. My school never banned it. They like books like this. And I'm glad they do. If we were all like Jonas' community, what would the world be? People need to think.
My class & I just finished reading this book.!(8th grade) ,Really.!!! Really awesome book...they should DEFINITELY make this a movie...this is one of the best books I've read...
here from the future, it's a movie now but it's radically different from the actual book (sci-fi setting, fiona is a nurturer now while asher is a drone pilot, jonas' mom is treated as an antagonist, etc)
I would hate it if the Giver were banned, it’s so important to our society, because it basically reflects what could happen in the future or what’s happening now in our world. The idea that if you aren’t given choices, no mistakes will be made and how that doesn’t give anybody any wisdom seems so true, yet many don’t see it. Don’t ban this book, it is a window into our society.
@@EggeryDoo bro I literally discovered it in school. It’s one of my favourite books lol Isn’t it crazy how to different humans can have two different emotions about the same thing ?
@@Pastellera2video yea, I got bored out of my mind tbh, it didn’t feel very captivating just mostly filler. Feels like they wrote the book just to get the money for it
The coolest thing about the story to me was that when I first read it I imagined everything was colorless and that actually was a plot point that confirmed what I saw in my head
I had to read this for 5th grade english then i read it again last night. What happens is as jonas is sledding down the hill with gabriel it's identical to the memory. He is in the place that memory took place and as he was recollecting the memory he saw the community there. Which is why he went there in the fiest place.
I do not know if our future civilizations will remember Global Warming or Covid-19 after it has been contained so we may need a Giver too. Nice to see you.
I've been eagerly waiting for this book to be turned into a movie since I read it in Grade 7. I'm now 24 and in Grad School........ hurry up please :).
i love this book, i also read gathering blue, but i never realized it was the same writer . 5 years later im going to read this again and read the massenger :D i heard that one relates gathering and the giver :D
@don2tan2 they dont call it a trilogy because in each book after The Giver it has new characters and only slightly talks about past characters, we talked about it today in class
@beautheawesome which part is that in, which chapter, page, etc??? because (unless i just skipped that part over by accident; not *that* likely) you're making it up.
this was actually the first book i read all the way to. all though i was told to read it in my reading class. it was the best book i read the ending got me thinkin wat happend
Jonas escapes, he takes gabe the night before he is going to be released, and they set off for elsewhere. They have been going for months when they finally hit winter and then Jonas knew he only had one more hill to endure. He climbs up it and finds a sled and he lives his first memory recived and he reaches elsewhere.
i had to read this book for my 7th grade pre school reading thing or a summer report i really liked the book but i have to agree with you about the ending i didnt really get it how they went down the snowy hill and then it just cut
"FOR THE MOST DISTINGUISHED CONTRIBUTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN" SEE " DONT JUDGE THE BOOK BY ITS COVER" THERE HAS A GREAT MESSAGE IN THIS BOOK. FOR EVERYONE WHO DOESNT ADMIRE IT, GOOD LUCK, CAN YOUR IMAGINATION IMAGINE THE FUTURE, THE IMAGINATION OF LOIS LOWRY IS WIDE, SHE CAN DO IT BECAUSE SHE IS GOOD!
i think lois lowry should write a sequel to the giver because at the end of the book we don't find out if jonas and gabe survive and i know the whole point of the ending is fro the reader to come up with their own ending but i just want to know what the author (lois lowry) thinks what will happen to jonas and gabe
@goku20018 i think that the skin color would all have mushed together rather than turned all white. they just couldn't see the color. anybody agree? like how fiona had red hair, but no one sees it.
