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The Giver by Lois Lowry
Interview with the author Why did you write the giver? In 1992, my mother and my father, both in their late 80's, were residents of the same nursing home in Staunton, VA. My mother was blind and very frail but her mind was completely intact. My father was healthier, physically, but his memory was going. I would frequently fly down from Boston to see them. On one particular visit, my mother wanted to tell me the stories about her life. I sat and listened to her talk about her childhood, her college years, and her marriage to my dad. In the course of retelling those anecdotes, she related the details about the death of her first child, my sister Helen, clearly her saddest memory. But she wanted to retell it. What do you want your readers to learn from Jonas' experience with the community after reading the giver? I want you to learn more about Jonas' family, and also learn about the community as a whole. Why did you choose to end the book the way you did? I intentionally writes an ambiguous ending so that readers can decide for themselves what happens to Jonas and Gabriel at the end of The Giver.
Lois Lowry Biography She began her career as a photographer and a journalist. Her first book was a Summer to Die which was published in 1977. Ever since she has written 30 books and published an autobiography. She is known for writing difficult subject matters for children. Her mother and father (Katherine and Robert Hammersburg) were residents of a nursing home her mother was very intact and she wanted Lois to retell her mother story. Thats when she wrote the Giver.
Summary of the Giver This is about an eleven year old boy named Jonas and his community. In his community there is no suffering, hunger, war, no color, love. Everything is controlled by the Elders right down to who you will marry, who you receive as children, and what you will be assigned as a job. To get released only happens to sick infants or really old people, or to people who break the rules. Jonas is almost twelve, it's almost time for him to get assigned a job. The Chief of elders purposely skipped over him to find out that he was the next receiver of memory. Jonas had received his list of rules and he was shocked to see that he could lie. On his training days Jonas went to go get training and he saw that the old man out of the audience from the ceremony of twelve was going to be his trainer. The old man said Jonas could call me the giver. The Giver gave Jonas the memory of snow and That was when Jonas was on the Sled. later on The Giver gave Jonas the memory of love he had never felt that before. Jonas started looking at the world in a different way . Jonas was also getting the ability to see color. Jonas takes care of the newborn, Gabriel. Jonas saw his dad kill one of the newborn twins because the were both boys. So the Giver and Jonas came up with a plan to go to elsewhere when Jonas found out that there was a plan for Gabriel's release so Jonas took Gabriel with him to elsewhere and they were really hungry but at the end it doesn't say what happened to them but i guess you have to make up the end yourself.
