I remember when technology had been part of my life ever since I was in seventh grade. When my dad first bought my sister a new computer and gave me the old one. It was an “old school” computer. The ones with a small ball in the computer mouse in order to move the cursor. I was so excited even though it’s a “used” computer because I never had one before. My sister would never let me use her computer, she would use it twenty-four hours! No kidding! He gave me the old computer since my sister already has a new one. I would use the computer to work on my essay and look for information for my research projects. Often, I would go to YouTube or others social media website for entertainment. He said that this computer would help me with my classes’ …show more content…
One day my friends told me that I didn’t have to read it at all. I remember when they had told me, “All the answers were online.” I was astonish after hearing that from my friends. At that moment, I didn’t want to spend my time reading books. The chapters of the novel have been just too long! Seeing myself reading The Giver is like Christopher Columbus seeking for America. Who wants to read a book when you can entertain yourself with movies and games on your computer? I would rather go swimming or playing dodge ball even if it I get hit in the face. I want to hang out with my friends, watch movies, or play video games. So, I decided to go to Google and search for the answers to my homework. I would even go to YouTube to watch the summary of the novel, so I would get a better chance to get a correct answer. When my teacher gave us a homework that ask questions about the novel, I would just search for them online. Basically, I was depending on my computer to get answers to my …show more content…
I tried to push myself to read the actual book. It was hard since I get distracted easily. I have to go to the library or even hide inside the restroom, away from all the noises and distraction. For once in my life, I tried to push myself to read the actual book. I was able to learned new words and a better understanding of the concepts of the story. Who knew that reading the actual book would be so interesting? I actually found the story of the book wasn’t boring and dull as I expected. I guess that’s why some people said that “Don't judge a book by its
major problem is that the book seems to drag on and on the closer you get to the
know that you’re understanding. You just keep reading because the book is that good. You wanna
full novel study of this book, because I know I must have missed so much of
...fter reading the story and watching it, I still have difficulty interrupting it. Yet, by looking at the ambiguities, gaps and strategically placed metaphors I can understand it better. Cunningham does a good job of tying these three stories together into a novel about reading a book. I would highly recommend this book to the advanced reader.
Every section of the book served as a point and an allegory to the book. The story is easy to digest. Seriously, I read through this book really fast without realising it and with no hassle of understanding the ideas and concepts. Although, I have drawn similarities between this novel and The Hunger Games, but this book was published years prior. I’m hoping it’s only coincidental.
“Themes and Construction: The Giver.” Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 23 Jan. 2014.
The book makes me understand the importance of reading and know how weak I’m in reading comprehension. Not only is my reading speed slow, but also my thoughts after reading are immature. I haven’t fix some time to read English books before so my background knowledge and vocabulary are far from abundant.
All in all, this novel is a good read, so long as the reader takes the time to think about everything that goes into it.
“The Giver.” Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin S. Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit, MI: Gale Research,1998. 167-81. Print.
“The Giver” a novel by Lois Lowry (1993), is an, engaging science fiction tale that provides the reader with examples of thought provoking ethical and moral quandaries. It is a novel geared to the young teenage reader but also kept me riveted. Assigning this novel as a class assignment would provide many opportunities for teachers and students to discuss values and morals.
At first it was a struggle for me to get from page to page because of Conrad’s intricate details. I was not accustomed to his unique writing style and I would often find myself lost in his descriptive language. I soon became frustrated with both the book and myself, which made it even more of a task to read.
There were many parts of the book that had me hooked; I couldn’t stop reading no matter what was going on.
This book is a very interesting read, if you have some self discipline. I mean that you need some self discipline because this book didn’t really captivate me in the sense that I couldn’t put it down. But after reading it for a while, I started to appreciate the author’s way of describing the characters and actions in this book.
But since, reading this book is one part of the assignment to be completed in Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Malaysian Education, I still have to read it until the last page of the book. At first, I feel like it is so, so hard to finish, I even feel like it is impossible to finish it, but I did not gave up. I still continuously reading it