Ask the Author: Lois Lowry
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Lois Lowry
I don't have the book in front of me but I believe it contains a line (which I think is not in the movie, though I may be wrong) in which The Giver tells Jonas that memories must be shared. "Community" is a misnomer without a shared past.
Lois Lowry
The "book" Asher peobably went on to do a good job and lead a fun-filled life. "The "movie" Asher is a more complex character!
Lois Lowry
My own childhood memories inspired the GBG books. As a shy child I so envied those classmates who were self-confident and popular
Lois Lowry
I suppose they would have cell phones and computers!
Lois Lowry
I have written several books in that genre: THE SILENT BOY is set in 1911; LIKE THE WILLOW TREE in 1918; and NUMBER THE STARS in 1943.
Lois Lowry
The actor Sean Astin is trying to get the film NUMBER THE STARS made.
and yes, Jonas and Gabriel appear in subsequent books that follow THE GIVER.
and yes, Jonas and Gabriel appear in subsequent books that follow THE GIVER.
Lois Lowry
No, no resistance from my publisher or from the critics. I loved writing this book and it is good to hear it mentioned after all these years. I love that the young mother started out with so little, and so many obstacles, but by the end of the book was on her way to a bright future.
Lois Lowry
It is possible that in the future....long after the fourth book...conflict would arise between communities. Sadly, history tells us that it always does.
BUT there is the possiblity that Gabe's defeat of the evil represented by Trademaster in the fourth book might mean that world conflict has ended.
BUT there is the possiblity that Gabe's defeat of the evil represented by Trademaster in the fourth book might mean that world conflict has ended.
Lois Lowry
I think the "older" JOnas in the ovie works just fine, because the teenagers in the movie have led such restricted lives that they seem unsophisticated, innocent, and childlike, like 12 year olds
Lois Lowry
I think an author works hard to affect an audience emotionally. Perhaps doing see affects, eventually, how people deal with the real world
Lois Lowry
The story I wrote that led to a publisher asking me to wrote my first book was called "Crow Call"... It was later re-published as a picture book
Lois Lowry
Yes, many years ago I was a member of the Junior League of Portland.
Lois Lowry
I grew up in a house filled with books and with a mother who read to her children. Two great gifts form my childhood.
Lois Lowry
There would have been no time for the film to incorporate the other books. I am kind of sorry they didn't take all four books and make a 12-part TV series..
Lois Lowry
I guess the time I learned of a grandmother, a Holocaust survivor, who had never told her own children her story until a grandchild read NUMBER THE STARS
Lois Lowry
I find that I am drawn to topics, news, etc. that affect children
Lois Lowry
You wil see a llot of Jonas...but not Fiona
Lois Lowry
I would recommend a short story by Ursula LeGuin, called THOSE WHO WALK AWAY FROM OMELAS
Lois Lowry
I thought the casting was perfect
Lois Lowry
When Jonas sees the vision/memory of the family at Christmas
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