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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.
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
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.
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!
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
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:)
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.
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...
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.
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
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 :).
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 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 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
@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.
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.
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
@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
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
The only ending as I see it. Jonas and the giver have a special connection at this point. The giver is very aware that Jonas is about to die. He reminds him of the beauty of life, and what he is fighting for. That is why there is the music, to suggest the givers presence. I do believe that they survive. With he help of the giver through the tough time.
@SlatecanJr The ending eludes to Jonas's and Gabriels death, There they stand fighting up this hill and at the very top it evens out and they find the sled. I believe this is where Jonas begins to die and refers to a final memory of hope, he rides the sled(why would someone leave a sled at the top of a hill rather than the bottom of it) and the final line read "But perhaps it was only an echo" (meaning the sled and the ride may have just been an echo of his last fleeting memory)
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.
"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!
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
same! i got assigned at director of recreation
Me too! I got assigned as Director of Elevens
My favorite book from my youth. A must read.
1:57 Precision of language Lois!
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.
Glowing soul! Her mind is a gift to the world. She has made such drastic impact. A true delight in my life. Thank you, Lois Lowry.
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.
It’s basically like a utopia is a perfect world, but because it’s perfect, it’s a dystopia. It’s confusing I agree lol
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!!!
the cliffhanger
it's actually a series. i'm only on book three, but i'm pretty sure we find out what happens to everyone.
yeah it is I finished it back when I posted this comment and I loved the other two books just as much
YES FINALLY!! I got this the first time reading it. Everyone whining about how the ending "is not realistic"...it is not supposed to be realistic!!
Katy Hazza I know that but what if he was just experiencing a memory and was actually dying
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.
Eduardo Gonzalez ,
I first stumbled upon this book as a first grader. I can honestly it sparked my love for reading.
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.
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
Although that’s a good theory, in one of the later book in the quartet we get to see that Jonas and Gabe actually did survive.
although I have another theory, this one is great as well!
*haven*
He lives hes in 2 other books and gabe is in 1 other
Gabe is briefly mentioned in the third book making him technically appear in 2 other books.
The Problem with that is all of the things we imagined in our heads will be forced into a single perception
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.
Yeah the ending killed me but now several years later reading messenger you finally get it :D
i thought they died and as jonas had his life being stripped away, he relived his favorite memory
No, they survived
I'm 60 and I just read it with my 9th grade son.
Ur around 67 now how’s life?
@@xxtreytay27xxj41 yeah
Yeah how's your son?
He's doing well!
In college. Thank you for asking.
i just finished the book and it is the most touching book i have ever read. best book ever
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!
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
Starseed Warrior I know exactly what u mean only reason I’m watching this interview.thank you for resetting me on my path as a lightwarrior
Rather than asking for an explanation of the endings, might I recommend reading the sequels?
There's more?
@@GoldenOvO yes, there’s three more books, bro!
The Giver is the young adult and children’s version of Brave New World. A true classic.
We read this book in 8th grade.good memories 🥲
people get scared when you ask too many questions. they can't stand to think to deeply about their perception of the world.
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:)
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.
Aaron yoy should read the book, its totally different from the movie and its really good
i know this comment was from 4 years ago and the youtube notification system sucks horribly but have you read the book yet?
@@loltoheaven777sreplaystora6 I have not read the book
I love how the stories do not have any relation at the beggining and then connect and make your head explode, EPIC
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.
Well, luckily for you there are three other books
Our advanced class is reading this.It is so good.
im in a advanced class and im reading this xD
Bent the Hawk I read this is 6th grade
If you love the book, you would love Jonas Sees in Color! Lois Lowry even mentions it on her website...
2019 ??
2021 broo
@@satine4300 2023 comment under mine I’ll wait
@@nio4928 AHAHA
@@satine43002024
Just finished an entire reread through of the entire giver quartet
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...
That book was great idk how anyone could hate a book that much.
Yea same
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 please consider making a movie for this great book!
ExposedTalent well they did!
I reading the book right now and its great!
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.
This is that best book ever in the whole world in history and there is a sequel its call Son it's going to be so awesome.
Son is literally my favourite part of the quartet
jonas lived and became a leader in another village. Gabriel lived as well. The companion books are gathering blue, messenger, and son (in order).
i loved this book, wish there was a sequel
THERE IS NOW!
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.
I would love it for to be banned cause then I won’t have to read it for school
@@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
@@EggeryDoo dman, I feel the complete opposite!
We'll just have to agree to disagree lol
@@Pastellera2video nice meeting you have a good day/ week/ month/year/decade/century
LOVE THIS BOOK!!!
Same
When I first read it..I was thinking "Is this a marxist distopia?"
Lois Lowry is completely boss. No arguing. I've put my statement out there, and no one knocks it down.
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 :).
This should be a movie. More people need to experience it. Great book, it has everything: mystery, lust, secrets, horror. Amazing.
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 LOVE LOIS LOWRY! she's the reason I stated reading I love gathering blue!
Only if she new what was going to happen 10 years form 2010 the civic 19
what a great book!!
OMG LOIS LOWRY I LOVE YOU SO MUCH
I was wondering What happened to Jonas at the End? and Gabriel? did they die? and that would mean the memories will return to the community?
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.
The giver isn't a science fiction it's a dystopia
This REALLY needs to be a movie. I mean, it REALLY needs to be!
IT IS NOW!
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
love this book
@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.
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 need this movie to come out!!!
i needed to read the book for a the school and now i need to do a oral presentation
The Giver is a masterpiece!
VERY GOOD BOOK!! I'm in 8th grade, & we are reading it in class. I'm in love with it. you should read it. (;
Lmao ten years ago
My fav book from childhood was "giving tree"
Legend!
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
this was made on my birthday!
i luv this book!: )
@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
This book is great thank lois
i love this book
i love this book but it made me cry :/ it was an amazing book :)
i read this book in highschool, now in collage i quote it everytime we discuss an utopian world or radical socialism
IMO this book exists on a plane with F451 and 1984. It’s more truth than many can handle apparently..
Great precision of language, Lois, at 1:55
Lol
@Wolflover711 YES I AGREE, THIS BOOK IS GOOD AND LOIS LOWRY WANTED TO SHARE HER IMAGINATION AND HER THINK OF WHAT HAPPENS IN FUTURE.
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
they should make a movie to this story
They are now!! :D
There are sequels?
i just finished this book and it is the most s
A good book to read.
One of the best books ever
Actually Lois Lowry Past away about 4 years ago :(
no
What happened at the end!?!?!
LUV THIS BOOK
I would rather live in their world then ours. Even if there's no color. There are no bad people, no mistakes, no crazy life threatening moments.
The only ending as I see it. Jonas and the giver have a special connection at this point. The giver is very aware that Jonas is about to die. He reminds him of the beauty of life, and what he is fighting for. That is why there is the music, to suggest the givers presence. I do believe that they survive. With he help of the giver through the tough time.
that’s a cool way to see the ending even if there is a canon one
@SlatecanJr The ending eludes to Jonas's and Gabriels death, There they stand fighting up this hill and at the very top it evens out and they find the sled. I believe this is where Jonas begins to die and refers to a final memory of hope, he rides the sled(why would someone leave a sled at the top of a hill rather than the bottom of it) and the final line read "But perhaps it was only an echo" (meaning the sled and the ride may have just been an echo of his last fleeting memory)
if you read the sequels, you'll see that Jonas got married with Kira.. (from the gathering blue)
***** me too
Fuck you
+Katy Hazza YES, i fricking hate spoilers with a passion
The best book yet! :) Thumbs up if you agree..
@ImAnAddictToMusic he just turned twelve, he was in the ceremony of twelves.
The movie has been rumored to be coming out in 2013. Go to imdb.com and search the giver.
favorte book :D
im reading this book now im in chapter 19
is there going to be an movie
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.
ilove it :))
"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!
@PickleOnFire yes gathering blue is the 2nd, but in the 3rd jonas and gabe appear in it
I remember reading this in 7th grade, The Giver has become one of my favorite books of all time!
I AM reading this is 7th grade right now
i totally agree...left me utterly confused
The Giver is really similar to our public schools.
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