Lily Jones

Lily Jones asked Lois Lowry:

Did you ever consider making Jonas and/or the Giver female?

Lois Lowry No, though they could have been. Book characters come to me intuitively, fully formed, and these two came to me as male

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Sally

Sally asked Lois Lowry:

What do you imagine happened that made each community in the series turn out so differently from one another? Each community came from the same ruin, yet Kara's community has almost no technology while Jonas's community was advanced and thriving.

A. asked Lois Lowry:

Hello Ms. Lowry! I would like to know if you meant for Gathering Blue to be set in any particular place? (I had a theory that Kira's village was located in after-the-Bad-Times London, mostly based on Matt's 'accent' and the use of the word 'tykes' for children.) Thank you!

Laney

Laney asked Lois Lowry:

I feel as if the lessons learned in the Giver are vastly different than the lessons learned when you read the series as a whole. Was that intentional? Why?

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