The Giver by Lois Lowry (Book Summary and Review) - Minute Book Report
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- Опубліковано 7 гру 2012
- This is a quick book summary and analysis of The Giver by Lois Lowry. This channel discusses and reviews books, novels, and short stories through drawing...poorly.
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This is a story about a boy named Jonas who lives in a somewhat sheltered community. Jonas lives with his Father, a newborn caretaker, his Mother, a judge of some kind, and his younger sister, Lily, an imaginative girl who asks a lot of questions.
This community regards age as extremely important, tracking each boy and girl with various labels based on their age. Because Jonas is turning twelve, he will be assigned his job. And while his friends and peers are assigned regular jobs in the community, he is selected to be The Receiver, a prestigious position that must learn and keep the memories of the past.
He begins training with the previous Receiver, The Giver. The Giver is an old man who is wise and tired. The Giver begins transferring memories from the past to Jonas through touch. At first this is exciting because he experiences things like snow and color, which are absent from this community. However, The Giver then transfers memories of pain and other negative images, which hurt Jonas.
After contemplating what to do with this knowledge, Jonas decides to take a newborn, Gabriel, with him and run from the community. He eventually makes it to society, where he is greeted by the sight of brightly decorated homes.
And while there are elements of the supernatural - the passing of memories - the somewhat utopian/dystopian society established in the story is a topic of important discussion.
The community in the story feels no sense of emotion, color, feeling, or remorse. And while our current society is not as blatant in these absences, we can, still today, feel the lack of those same things.
Color seems to be an important characteristic in this story. The majority of the community sees the world in a literal and figurative gray tone. Also, the use of red appears several times in the story - the apple, a girl's hair, flowers.
This story presents a scary scenario where a community decides the lifestyle of individuals and individuals have no real choice. Does it sound familiar?
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Minute Book Reports holy shit this was so helpful. I had to read up to page 70 in the past week but I didn’t and now it’s Sunday at 8:01 and I still haven’t read anything, plus we have to have a discussion tomorrow at school. Thank you so much
Thank you I will pass test now 🙏🏻
You saved lots of time,👍
I found it helpful forschool
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lol my quiz on this book is tommorrow
+Mitchy Moo same dude lmao
Mitchy lmao I have a essay due tommorow
Mitchy, I have to write a 4 page summary of the book.
Same
Mitchy mines in 20 minutes, I'm watching it 20 before school begins
am I the only one that finished the book before even watching this?!
Zenia Kamato nah I did
Anonymously Insane No, I literally just finished it. Some people are just too lazy and use this to cheat their way through homework.. Dumbasses.
No
Nope I did, i finished it last week, and I'm watching the movie
girlinthegreenjacket •-• ikr, we were doing a book report on it. It was a good book, unfortunate it wasn’t that popular BACK THEN.
Dude seriously thanks. During the weekend I was suppose to read this book and I had no clue about it, today is the last day I have to read it and you saved my ass XD thanks man. I'm going to hang on to your channel for a bit. Lord knows what book reports I'll get next....
+Sean Woods Lol. I'm glad the video helped, but I do hope that you get a chance to read the book in the future. It's pretty great. :)
Alphyy omg same but I have to do it today
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AAA SAME LMAO. I haven’t been able to read the book for English and there are 14 DAMN QUIZES ABOUT THIS BOOK THAT I GOTTA TAKE. This video revived me from the dead 💀
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My class read this book and we thought that Jonas was not met by a town, but by his own heaven. He passed away. He was losing consciousness by riding down the sled, and even before that he showed signs of afterlife.
He fell in the snow, and he had a sudden "urge" of happiness and this is when I imagine he already died. The movie also exhibits hints of his death and passing. He felt as if all hope was lost and then he all of a sudden felt happiness? We also know his favorite memories were sledding and Christmas. The last sentence of the book is "or perhaps it was only an echo" when he thought he heard music. What many people think is proof he didn't die is the book gathering blue where Jonas is now a wood carver in a village but this is just a cameo and not our Jonas. It is obvious because Jonas never knew the wood carving skill and it is unlikely the giver has ever given it to him.
I totally agree with that!
My class said that maybe he didn’t die and that when the giver gave Jonas his first memory of the sled, he was giving Jonas directions on hot to escape. We said maybe the first memory every receiver gets is the sled memory so if they ever escape they know what to do.
Yeah the book ended by him with Gabe at the bottom of the mountain. Well better dead than to have to witness the chaos or live in a dead world
You think that until you read the sequels and find out he lived lol.
Hmmmm very interesting thoughts here honestly! I've been reading this book for school to and I've actually gotten very interested in this book and the rest of the series which I plan to read soon lol
I'd like to think Gabe and jonas in fact did live since we see that they are near a house ( from what I remember) I'm pretty sure most people wouldn't just let a preteen and toddler die via hyperthermia they would surely take them in!
Also the author has stated that the ending whilst ambiguous is meant to be taken in a positive way and she also said that when she hears that people think gabe n Jonas die she doesn't exactly agree with that so we can conclude that this is in fact meant to be a happy type of ending
And as others have said there's sequels that showcase these two alive and the most recent book called son stars gabriel im pretty sure! ( Well there's a character named that not sure if he's the one in the giver or not haha)
But hey that interpretation of the book is still totally really good and you would've only known these things if you spent like an hour of research at best and most don't do that for books you read at school ( but hey what can I say I loved this book strangely enough!)
“Somewhat protective community” 😂
Thanks so much for your short summary of the book, it helped my daughter who has ADD/ADHD finish her 5 paragraph report. It's not easy for children who struggle with the ability to maintain focus, but your short video and summary helped her a lot after she VERBALLY heard it. Thanks so much.
+Melody Flores I'm glad it could help. Hope her report turns out okay.
IM DOING A 5 PARAGRAPH ESSAY TOO RN
Your a half blood
Lol the amount of irresponsible students here...
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I can relate.
I just wanted to spoil the book for myself lol
My teacher said don't read ahead so I didn't I looked it up on UA-cam lol
this on my recommended 11 years later makes me a little happy, I read this book this year for school and I love it so much.
When everyone's talking about either being saved and now being able to write an essay/compelete a test and/or talking about whether Jonas and Gabe died or not and you're just like:
*Oh... so that's the name of the book. I remember it now!*
well, just like the others i'm here because an assigment from my lecturer.
thanks for your summary.
Thank you so much for existing!
I am literally typing up a school project at this very moment. lol
The short summary helped me a lot with my essay. Thank you so much.
Glad the video was helpful. :)
Theme: The importance of memories. I still remembered that, well one of the themes.
As somebody who cannot read due to how i cannot concentrate (nor listen to audiobooks either cause I will also loose focus pretty quickly) and i general almost cannot pick up a book for those few months, it literally saved my grades since it's 12am and i have to present about this book today. Ty ^^
The app is called Paper.
Thank you so much dude, you saved my ass. Keep up the great work!
The Giver Book By Lois Lowry (Summary - Review - Order Book)
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Thanks this helped me a lot!
thx this helped me with my grade
This was good bro, it really jogs my memory, now I can make MY book report :D. Thx for the reminder
Glad it helped.
Thx for this I’m using this
I really enjoyed this book, it was incredibly engaging, and really explored some deeper themes. My only quarrel with the book was how abrupt the ending the felt, the rest of the book was paced really well, but it almost feels like Lowry got tired of the book and just quickly made up an ending. That sounds pretty harsh, but I know I'm not alone in feeling that. Definitely still worth a read though.
This Helped So Much!
This is too good
yo i have a presentation on this nec week and you helped me alot thx
Excellent!!
I love the ending of his video "does it sound familiar"
What dose he mean about that
I am about to do a presentation on this...Thanks man!
Thank you a lot keep doing whay ur doing like ir vids a whole lot
Best book I have ever readed
wut app u use
Thank bro
My favorite book.
i honestly thought this book had a message but that was all it was
jack beason no it means so much more. This wasn't a well summary
jack beason
No it has a big meaning, this is just a vague summary. The 'message' behind the story is how the world might change in the next 100+ years if we continue war and other countless horrible things, notice how they're all trapped in just one community? Well the theory behind that is considering the war before the events of The Giver a huge mass of people died and who ever was left decided to run a small community. It's estimated the community started in 2056 because the author said the story could begin from when the book was made in 1996 from 50 years then on. However Lois Lowry said it can be whatever year you want it to be from year 3061 too 2678, whatever. Never the less that isn't the story behind it all, the meaning to the book is simply don't forget the things that made Earth reality such as color, music, weather, emotion, feeling, and so much more. If all is lost what will be reality? Who wants to live in the same world where everyone is the same? Not me and I'm sure you don't either. And the ending to story? Well Jonas and Gabriel did find 'elsewhere' as featured in the movie, however the ending to book has another small meaning, if the Jonas and Gabriel both died they did the right thing by restoring memory and peace to the whole world! And it didn't matter if they lived. That's the ending to the book and makes you wanna shed a tear I know I did because the theory goes at the end he hears music, yet he did 'receive' the memory of music, usually it's believe once someone dies they hear there death bell so Jonas most likely heard his death bell or to put the you to silence Jonas dreamed about everything. And here's the the answer, no Jonas and Gabe did not die in fact in The Sequel 'The Messanger' he now runs his own community and Gabe is about 10 or 11, so about 10--12 years after 'The Giver'. Hope I covered all your questions!
It does have a message
@@chrisjohnson4464 thankyou
@@chrisjohnson4464 Don't forget to add the ridiculousness of this book: 1) Back in the day there was war because people had different skin colors, so nowadays everyone is white. 2) People with blue eyes are "special" and have "more depth" than people with dark eyes. 3) The only important female characters in the book are: A) Fiona, a docile, gentle, feeble pre-pubescent "love interest", and B) Rosemary, the receiver who was too weak to take the training and gave up on week 5. 4) The book implies that to achieve equality, humans should eliminate even COLOR, MUSIC, FEELINGS, and THE CAPACITY OF EMOTIONAL MEMORY (eh? How did they even modify humans or the environment to achieve that?!), but that LOVE is more important than EQUALITY (uh?) so it's very brave of Jonas to sacrifice equality in the name of love. That's BS. Equality is not being forbidden to have a choice, it's living in a society (or "community") where no one is discriminated by their choices. The ultimate equality stems FROM love, not in the absence of it.
you can show me the link of the app to make this video
I have a report on this due in 2 days and I had no idea what happened at the end till this video thanks
Good Job
You saved my life :D I supposed to read this book and write a paragraph about it but then i was like "Hmm lets wait a few more dayszzz" Then here the last day of vacation I remember I have to read this book. I didnt know about this book so I basically cheated xD
Man, all you had to do was read it and write a paragraph? Lucky, my class had to do more work
Is there a book after this?
This book is like a fever dream for me. Read it like 8 years ago and still have visuals of certain parts of the story. Thank you for this video.
Im here bcuz my English teacher is forcing the whole class to read the whole book
And I aint got no time lmao
Can you do one of the first nancy drew book
It only took 35 seconds to cover chapters 1-10 of the giver!
just watching this because the book seems interesting
Do you think that you will ever do the sequels to this book?
It's a trilogy. The others are already out, I was kind of surprised when I found that out.
Runawaybuns really?
There are actually four books and I am sorry my question was a little confusing. I was asking if this channel would cover those books.
you explain everything from book that took me days to read and a movie that was more than an hour long...but you put in the most important details in...except for the.....boundary (I forgot what it was called)
There is a question on my paper saying "Citizens have a fear of the outside world" how can i answer that?
Plz halp
Uh that’s not a question
No. They let "a group of sevens" into the community early in the book. chapter 2 I believe
Tbh I think the ending somewhat symbolizes that Jones has died but I only read the giver and I heard it's somewhat part of a series soo. . .
Yep, those 3 books
But it seems like the Twilight Zone where everything's somewhat different
Yet in the same universe and other blah blah
Wowowow
love this book! would definitely recommend!
What about the end of the book
Omg thx
Epic
Honestly, I hate to say it, but I don't think Jonas, nor Gabriel lived, or at least, they shouldn't have. Lois Lowry intentionally made it unclear, and while she said herself that she doesn't like when people automatically assume he died, it's the most realistic scenario.
It would be too convenient for him to find a town all of a sudden, in the middle of a snowy forest.
I think it's safe to say that anyone who's read the book would have wanted Jonas and Gabriel to have a happy ending, but honestly it just doesn't work with the whole mood of the story. Of course, I'm not the author so I don't know what Lowry originally had in mind, but that's my interpretation of it.
Ok, that was a bit of an intense explanation for a children's book, but I don't know. I can't help myself sometimes.
There are three other books that relates to the giver and it might clear things up
Think about someone escaping North Korea
Read your book it’s really good read your book it’s so good
I didnt like the book
thanj you i just dont wanted to read this book for my english class this holiday :)
Ok, so im chose to write a book review on this book. I read the book a while ago and decided i would do this book since I've already read it. My report is due I the 21st of October (2019) and I'm really happy I found this because i don't feel like reading the book 24/7 until it's finished. Thank you sooo much!
Plz help I have more questions!!!
Sweet
Lol I had to read this over the summer. It’s the day before school
bruh i read an extract from this in kumon lmfao
Thanks from Germany
Gabe..... thank God he's safe.
THANK U my book report gots to be good
I have a book report tomorrow. You saved me, bro. Thanks.
This is the book I’m doing for my final, tomorrow. I never read it.
Where df is the free movie link ???
im literally watching this to study for a test
I’m doing this 10 mins before a presentation
Gotta finish this in 4 days lol pray for me I should've just read it in the summary
Same I can never finish my report by my self lol it's gonna get harder shit I forgot about life😹😹😹
I got to finish this in 1 day
this really highlights the communities weird lifestyle
What's the name of this book???
The Giver
0:43 YOU GOT THE TOUCH! YOU GOT THE POWEEEEEEERRRRRRRR! Oh wait, wrong movie
I'm here because fuck summer homework.
Me too DX
Did you use an app to make this? If so, what is it called?
Hi guys
👏👍
Its like the lorax?
I'm here because I think that's gonna be very similar to out society someday
underage 8 year old boy Communism is bad friend
after reading the giver, you'll never look at the word release the same way ever again.
Crap... I watched the full summary and my class is on chapter 6! Cool video though.
When you love Propaganda! by Crusher-P and have to read this book for school: *Oh yeah, it's all coming together*
Anyone who thinks it’s stupid of us to use this for tests instead of reading it obviously hasn’t taken advanced classes on top of reading literature.
Hmmm do math homework for my engineering or read a book.. I’ll do the more productive option thank you very much.
Aeon I guess
Classmates did it too, graduated already but thx for your concern. Math takes priority over reading for me every time, because math is what I need to know for the field I’m interested in. Would’ve done it again, I’ll read a book every now and then if it’s interesting.
Hey Yoda, what do you think about this book?
Yoda: mmmmmm fucked up it is
thank you, i had to read the book before tmr for school and i didnt want to read this so yea tysm
Thank god u did this...I have to do an essay on the topic at 1:23
Everyone here for school I’m here just to remember what the book was about 😂😂
I can add that to my list. I've never read a Nancy Drew book. It looks like fun.
so basically 1984 for kids
This is just a theory, (SPOILERS) Jonas and Gabe die in the snow. They said when you get released, you go to Elsewhere.
It later they find out the when you’re released you get murdered. Elsewhere is the place Jonas is trying to go with Gabe.
Elsewhere has the be somehow linked with the afterlife. Just think about it, Jonas could sense “Elsewhere” was near when
he was trudging through the snow. And before he possibly died he might have remembered all the happy memories he had
left. I guess it is also possible for them to find a house, it really depends on what you want the ending to be.
Have you read messenger and the son
Angel Aburto I’m working on it.
Wait so Lily is a imaginative girl or the younger sister
Juliaroxall AJ both
The people need eyes.
You forgot the part where Jonas whatches his dad kill a baby
bye bye little one :))))
Why is there no eyes? XD
Aye! Wassup dood I’m Jonas I cant remember anything u lied jk .-.
Did he die at the end?
Madeleine Quill no
Annalise Scott yes he did. It was very subtle. Lois Lowry is a very skilled author and it would be so abnormal for her to say "then he died" that doesn't fit anywhere in this book so it was a more subtle way describing his death
the color he first sees red the color of love and the color of love, the first thing the is the most red is the Apple, several times the Apple is used to get through his problems, in the bible the apple is named the apple of intelligence, which is the reason why people got their intelligence from. same with the movie. I think I know what the arthour was thinking about, movies like these are not 2 be ignored. wake up
Lol I need this for my book report
what happened in the end i thought was that he used his memories to survive or something because a sled couldnt have spawned out of nowhere so i think he died lol
Wait so what the problem of this book?
Happy Feet sameness, no one has choices or decisions