The Giver by Lois LowryMy review
rating: 1 of 5 stars
Not at ALL for children. This book was recommended to me by many teachers. They must secretly hate me, because about three hours into listening to this book on tape with my children, I had to turn it off. The writing was excellent and the story thought provoking until it detailed how the father killed a little baby. My kids were very upset!! Then, the ending was not nearly great enough to redeem this story. Sorry, but I do NOT suggest this story.
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I think it really depends on the maturity level of your children. I read it to my 4th and 5th graders and we had a great, detailed discussion on society and rights and wrongs. The book itself is quite thought provoking in a lot of different ways, and I think you are being rather harsh in your review. Recommending it for NO ONE? Come on. Just cause it caught you off guard doesn't mean it's not good literature.
ReplyDeleteNO ONE!! NO ONE!! I gave credit to the author for some things, but seriously, Isabelle is in 5th grade and a pretty mature kid. She was very teary and it took forever to come up with a learning lesson to put with this story. NO ONE!! I don't like storie about dead babies.
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ReplyDeletei think i might read this book now considering you like country music and don't think the beatles contributed to music at all.
The learning lesson is that it was completely and totally wrong for that dad to kill that baby, even if it was his job. And how horrifying it is that this particular society had numbed people from feeling so much that he didn't even see the wrong in what he did. And the whole thing is that Jonas did see that it was wrong and terrible and it was the reason why he left. And the fact is that babies are killed all the time even in our own society. The point is (and I think the author made it clear) that it was VERY WRONG. VERY VERY WRONG. and that is why Jonas made the decision to leave his own family. He couldn't live with that kind of thought process anymore.
ReplyDeleteShontell- You seem to be an avid reader. You obviously didn't go to Carson high school. Who taught you to read? I want to learn.
ReplyDeletesnort. My mamma taught me to read. She is real smart.
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ReplyDeleteMy Brandon was telling me about that book. I think that I will read it just so that I can have a discussion with the poor kid who seemed rather horrified and just kept saying it's not sad.....just wierd.
ReplyDeleteI would say he is rather thoughtful about things and an overall good processor, so that was an interesting comment to me.