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In what way is your book Gathering Blue a companion to The Giver?Ī. I think they’re out there somewhere and I think that their life has changed and their life is happy, and I would like to think that’s true for the people they left behind as well. And each person will give it a different ending. What form their new life takes is something I like people to figure out for themselves. How could it not be an optimistic ending, a happy ending, when that house is there with its lights on and music is playing? So I’m always kind of surprised and disappointed when some people tell me that they think the boy and the baby just die. I will say that I find it an optimistic ending. Is it an optimistic ending? Does Jonas survive?Ī. So I don’t want to put my own feelings into it, my own beliefs, and ruin that for people who create their own endings in their minds. People bring to it their own complicated beliefs and hopes and dreams and fears and all of that. And the reason is because The Giver is many things to many different people. Some write, or ask me when they see me, to spell it out exactly. Many kids want a specific ending to The Giver. When you wrote the ending, were you afraid some readers would want details or did you want to leave the ending open to individual interpretation?Ī. Jonas takes the baby, Gabriel, because he loves him and wants to save him, but he takes the baby also in order to begin again with a new life. Babies-and children-always represent the future. And he takes the baby because he is going out to create a future. He takes the bicycle because he needs to hurry and the bike is faster than legs. He takes food because he needs to survive. But then, because of circumstances, he has to set out in a very hasty fashion. He originally plans to make the trip farther along in time, and he plans to prepare for it better. Why does Jonas take what he does on his journey? He doesn’t have much time when he sets out. How did you decide what Jonas should take on his journey?Ī. And so I think probably that interest of my own and that particular subject was the origin, one of many, of The Giver. I’m not sure why that is, but I’ve always been fascinated by the thought of what memory is and what it does and how it works and what we learn from it. I will say that the whole concept of memory is one that interests me a great deal. But a book like The Giver is a much complicated book, and therefore it comes from much complicated places-and many of them are probably things that I don’t even recognize myself any, if I ever did. And some, like Number the Stars, rely on real history. Kids always ask what inspired me to write a particular book or how did I get an idea for a particular book, and often it’s very easy to answer that because books like the Anastasia books come from a specific thing some little event triggers an idea. I cannot remember ever not wanting to be a writer.Ī. When did you know you wanted to become a writer?Ī. To learn about Lois Lowry, see her website at author interviewĪ CONVERSATION WITH LOIS LOWRY ABOUT THE GIVER Lowry divides her time between Maine and Florida. Her newest book, ON THE HORIZON, is a collection of memories and images from Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and post war Japan. Several books have been adapted to film and stage, and THE GIVER has become an opera. Her first novel, A SUMMER TO DIE, was awarded the International Reading Associations Childrens Book Award. She received Newbery Medals for two of her novels, NUMBER THE STARS and THE GIVER. She has received countless honors, among them the Boston Globe Horn Book Award, the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Award, the California Young Readers Medal, and the Mark Twain Award. She is the author of than forty books for young adults, including the popular Anastasia Krupnik series. After studying at Brown University, she married, started a family, and turned her attention to writing. She was born in Hawaii and grew up in New York, Pennsylvania, and Japan. Lois Lowry is known for her versatility and invention as a writer.