Author of

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Lois Lowry
Author of The Giver
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Lois Lowry...

• was born in Oahu, Hawaii
• has an older sister and a younger brother
• was a military child she lived all over the
  world! Hawaii, New York, Pennsylvania, and Tokyo!

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Lois Lowry...

• was married at the age of 19
• has four children
• scribbled stories and poems as a child, and grew
  up to fulfill her dream of writing professionally.

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Lois son, Grey, was a fighter pilot in the US
AirForce. His plane crashed in Germany, and he
was killed.
His death in the cockpit of a warplane tore away
a piece of my world. But it left me, too, with a
wish to honor him by joining the many others
trying to find a way to end conflict on this very
fragile earth. -- Lois Lowry
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Because the death of her son affected her so
deeply, and gave her a desire to fix the problems
in this world, we can assume that her sons death
influenced Lowry in her writing.
Lowry inteded The Giver and its sequels to
fulfill this desire.
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The important thing about The Giver and its
sequels is what the story says about the
relationships between people, and the
world. They speak to the same concern the
vital need of people to be aware of their
interdependence, not only with each other, but
with the world and its environment. --- Lois
Lowry
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Interdependent a relationship where people
depend on each other equally to survive or
succeed. For example, you may depend on your
friend to give you a ride home from school, and
your friend may depend on you to pick him up in
the morning.
We will be looking for examples of
interdependency (people relying on each other
or not) in The Giver.
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