Book Talk "The Giver"

*Written Transcript*

             This is my book talk on The Giver by Lois Lowdry. The genres of this book include, young-adult, science fiction, and fantasy. In The Giver the main character is Jonas. Jonas is an 11-year old boy who is living in a world where everything is the same. There are no colors, no emotions, and mothers don't get to keep their child. Every child is adopted into a family when it is a baby.

             At the age of 12, kids are assigned to a job. Jonas gets a different kind of assigned job. He is given the special job as the Receiver of Memories. He receives those memories from "The Giver" The Giver teaches him about different emotions and different colors. The mood of this book is exciting because you never know what memory "The Giver" is going to give to Jonas. It could be a good memory or a bad memory.

             One theme in this story is that without memories, we would live a a boring life. All of the people in the book had their memory taken from them. All those memories went to "The Giver". I liked this book because I liked how Jonas had some type of power to "see beyond". What I remember most about this book was that the Giver was giving memories to Jonas. He was teaching Jonas the different color and all the different things that he had never seen before. I would recommend this book because it is fun to read, exciting, and is an overall great book.


I commented on Yareli's blog, Mia's Blog, and Emily's blog.