The Giver Series

Similar to my freshman year, I read a series of a book that I just couldn’t put down. That no matter what I was doing, I had to keep reading. This was the summer of my freshman year in college. I read The Program series by Suzanne Young and was so into the books. I would finish the first book, The Program, then start onto the next one and the next one. I didn’t even realize that I had finished the whole entire series until I couldn’t find the next book to the

In the movie The Giver the main character, Jonas, learns more than what society has been telling him and sees a whole new perspective. To explain, the government hides emotions, colors, music, and memories from the community and Jonas is fortunate enough to experience it all. On his first day of training as the receiver, he sees the vision of snow and a sled. Jonas is shaken by the memories he has learned but is deeply intrigued, begging for more information each day. In the film, the wooden sled represents pain and experience.

When we were required to read books for school, other classmates complained about it, but it was one of my favorite parts of class. Even though I didn’t always like the books, I liked to read books that I wouldn’t have picked out to read. I liked being surprised when I enjoyed a book that I didn’t think I would like.

My experience with literature started when I was in the first grade. My first-grade teacher was named Ms. Young. Every Friday, all the teachers would come together to have story time and read the children a book. I would be so excited for story time because I would sit down with my best friends Ashley and Jordan, and we would listen to the teacher that was assigned to read to us. During story time, all the children would gather around in a big circle and the teacher would be in the center in a big brown rocking chair, and read. Over time in the school year, the children would read bigger and longer books like the Junie B. Jones series, chapter books, and the extreme level, which would be the Harry potter series. Sometimes I would fall asleep because the book that was read was very dull. I remember Ms. Young read to us the “Very Hungary Caterpillar”9 by Eric Carle. I loved that book as a child. It had great illustrations of the caterpillar turning into a butterfly. This book made me love reading for the rest of my life. Now in college, I love to read books. I only

Title and Author: The Giver by Lois Lowry Setting: A dystopian universe far in the future Characters: Jonas starts as an immature eleven-year-old boy struggling to find his niche. The Giver is a wise man that takes in Jonas as an apprentice. Jonas’s family is introduced to Gabriel, a baby boy with a remarkable connection to Jonas, after he has difficulties sleeping in the nursery. Plot: In this future civilization, the Elders controlled the citizen’s lives, from their hairstyle to their spouses.

Although I don't remember the library in that school because I moved again before my 5th grade year even ended, I had one of the most life changing opportunities that year. Spencer was a small town, 2,217 residents at the time, but my all time favorite author, Margret Peterson Haddix had decided to come to MY high school. I had read almost every book she had published since I was in 3rd grade. I was in a book club in 4th grade for her book "Just Ella" but my all time favorite was her shadow children series. It was a book about a future Earth where the population had grown too big and couples were only allowed 2 children. This family's 3rd son hid in the attic. I read and reread all 7 books in the series. She also had another famous series called "The Missing" The series tells of many famous people in history stolen as babies by people of the future. In the first book, Found, a mysterious plane appears with only babies aboard. These kids are all taken and adopted until the mysteriously all receive a letter for an Adoption Convention and end up taking a "hike" together to a dark cave where they learn their true

I had a couple years during middle school where I didn’t read as much, but when I started Seventh Grade I remember reading The Mortal Instruments series, and I fell in love with it. I would stay up late at night just to finish the next Chapter. By the end of the semester, I had finished all six of them and I still love reading them even

The Odyssey overall was a good book. It had a great plot, the story was much in

The first book that I decided I would save would have to be The Giver by Lois Lowry. The book the Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in an almost perfect world. Everyone is treated, acts, and looks the same, which causes the society to be near perfect with no problems. At age 12, all of the teens are given a job based on what the government thinks they will be best at. At the ceremony of the twelves all of the teens are given their jobs, but Jonas is chosen for a special job that

My family was traveling to southern Indiana to see our cousins for the weekend, so I had a long time to read the book. I read almost the entire way there, and I couldn't put it down. I finished the book and immediately wanted to read another one. I was very anxious to get to school on Monday so I could start reading the second book in the series. This book was about the main character playing football, and how he had a chance to win the city championship. I again read this book within a couple days and then started on the third book. This became a regular pattern for me. I was now reading at least one book a week, and my opinion on reading had dramatically changed within a few weeks. I went from disliking what I was reading, and picking out a book was nearly impossible, to now loving what I was reading. I didn't have to worry about picking out a book because I could just read the next book in the

Not only did I learn courage from Bilbo or not to find value in possessions like Gollum, but I also learned perseverance as I pushed through the initial confusion and frustration and discovered a book that continues to teach me a new lesson every time I read it. I think I'm up to about 6 times now. From there my love for literature only grew. Throughout my reading journeys I discovered more stories that are so close to my heart and taught me so much about life. To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee showed me compassion as I traipsed around Maycomb with Scout, observing how people aren't always what they seem. After I saw the true character of Boo Radley, I wanted to learn more about every person that I passed on the street. I knew there was so much more to their stories and it just gave me another reason for my social side to grow as I talked to others and discovered more about them. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne taught me courage and self worth as Hester stayed true to herself in the midst of judgment from the people around her. The Old Man and the Sea taught me to recognize that there is beauty in simplicity as I read the story of a simple

In The Giver movie and The Giver book, there were lots of differences. Just to name a few that stood out a lot was that in the movie they skipped the beginning, Asher didn’t try to stop Jonas when he tried to escape and there was also no map. Therefore these differences are a big part because since they are being left out we are seeing something new in the movie that we didn’t and did see in the movie. For example, since they skipped the beginning they didn’t talk about when Jonas had a dream about Fiona and the wanting to do something. Also, when Jonas tried to run away from the society Asher wasn’t even mentioned in the story. Lastly, like how Asher was not mentioned in the story neither was the map that The Giver gave to Jonas. These

I was hooked from book one (The Absent Author), and spent hours every day paging through the books on my own time, which would in turn increase my vocabulary, enhance my analytical thinking, and improve my writing skills. In all honesty, those books granted me a love for reading that couldn’t be satiated. They opened up a door for me that would provide solace, comfort, and happiness in the coming years, and I am forever grateful for being granted a personal outlet. Books have become something no one can take away from me, and every person deserves to have something permanent; I’m just glad I found mine when I

My favorite thing that we read was, The Call of the Wild. Because, it was really fun to read. Sometimes the words were diffulct to read, but other than that it was fun to read. The reason why it is was fun to read is because, there would always be a conflict which is a problem and then something would happen and that was really fun to read. Also, it was really advernitous like they would go sledding for races. It is also funny in some parts of the book. Then in other parts it was sad.

By third grade, I was reading full-length novels, and by high school I had finished every Stephen King book I could lay hands on, and many of Dean Koontz’s books. My favorite books were The Hobbit (which my