Let me "Give" you some reading strategies!!! (I'm so funny and original :P)

My Reading Strategies:

I found The Giver to be incredibly easy to read and follow along. This is owed to both the sentence structure, and diction chosen by the author Lois Lowry. The casual language and ideas that are spoken and expressed by the protagonist are respective of the aforementioned attributes of Lowry's writing style, and as such, fit the mold of a young adolescent quite well. By being a smooth and uncomplicated reading experience, I had more time to put towards reading strategies in order to glean a greater understanding of the novel. The methods I used to better understand The Giver include, writing down what I understood from a chapter, re-reading to make sure I didn't miss any underlying themes, symbolisms etc, and taking jot notes whenever I felt they were necessary.

ARISE VICTORIOUS FROM THE LITERARY WAR!!!

Through writing down small summaries of what happened in each chapter I read, I was able to cement my understanding of the text. If I failed to remember enough of what had occurred in the chapter, I would move onto my second habit of re-reading the it. The second time through the the text often helped me fully grasp the overall idea of the chapter, and in doing so, recall the events much more clearly. The last approach I applied to thoroughly interpret the novel would be intermittently taking jot notes on a separate paper, that outlined key and inter aspects of each chapter. Having these, alongside my short summaries, allowed me to go back to various chapters I had already read, and quickly remember their main points and concepts.