Gathering Blue

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Summary: G G G G G G GBLUE NIT
Review: Gathering Blue is a very enjoyable novel. It was very interesting and was a very good adventure book, and one of the best I ever read. I learned a lot from the characters in the book especially Kira, on how she overcame her disability even though she was looked down on.
The book is about a 12-year-old girl Kira, who was orphaned by the recent death of her mother, Kira has been cursed by a deformed leg and blessed by unsurpassed artistic talent. In her village people wit disabilities and looked down upon and treated unequal. Facing the Council of Guardians, she pleads her case and finds an important role that plunges her deep into the heart of this mysterious civilization. Kira is forced to turn to her wonderful weaving talent to save her during a trial over her life. With the help of a cheerful orphan called Matt and his little dog, Kira at last finds the way to the plant that will allow her to create the missing color--blue--and, symbolically, to find the courage to shape the future by following her art wherever it may lead. So Kira fight all the obstacles in her life and excels to the best of her ability at the end, even though she had it very difficult, and harder than most people.
So overall I like Gathering Blue a lot and would recommend for all ages as a got book to read. The book really made you think and had a kind of mysterious effect in it, which made it a lot better.

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Summary: Tay Mag
Review: Gathering Blue, written by Lois Lowery is a very interesting book. The setting is futuristic, but not a high tech world. Instead, the new world is full of hard workers, hatred, proverty,and little tykes being neglected by their parents. The main character is Kira who is a young girl born with a crippled leg. In her society, they leave babies with disablities at the Fields to die. Luckily, Kira's loving mother begged for her to live. Kira discovers that she has a great weaving skill. Later on in the story she meets two boys with their own special talent, and they all become friends.
I liked how Lowery made Kira strong, not sorry for her crippled leg. It made me want to read the next page, to see what her next move was going to be. As you read, you'll find out the true side of one of Kira's close friend, that has to do with her father's past. I was surprised how Lowery ended the story. It was not your "happily ever after" ending.

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Summary: Gathering Blue
Review: Gathering Blue, written by Lois Lowry was an alright book. It took place in Kira's controlling community. Gathering Blue was about a girl named Kira,who was borned handicapped and who's mother passed away from a disease. She doesn't know what to do, because nobody can take care of her. Kira's father lives in a free community where everybody helps each other out and there aren't any dictators. She ends up choosing to stay in her controlling community and go to the Council of Guardians and finds out that they already have a plan for her. Their plan is for her to become a seamstress for the singer's robe. Her talent of sewing saved her life.

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Summary: *Gathering Blue*
Review: Gathering Blue is about a newly orphaned girl who is disabled and a misfit to the society. She is unable to make use of her distorted leg, and is forced to leave her residence by a neighboring villager. In the midst of the climax, Kira is faced against the Council of Guardians, where they decide if she will be sent to "The Field," where beasts will kill her. Or they can make a decision for her life to be spared. They decide to give her a break, and she is taken to live in the Grand Council Edifice as am embroiderer. There she can repair a symbolic robe that gets worn at the annual Ruin Song Gathering, where the village past is shared.
Thomas, a Carver, and Jo, the next Singer also resides in the Grand Council Edifice. Like Kira they are artists who have lost their families. The three get ordered around and cannot express a lot of their own creativity. With the help of their friend matt, their courage amplifies, and they plan to create a new future, that isn't dictated by the Council of Guardians.
Gathering Blue was a remarkable book. Kira's artistic ambitions may inspire many. This book was easy to get into, and grabbed my attention. I thought the characters were intriguing, and entertaining to read about. I also love the aspect of their names complementing their ages. Generally, it was a good book, but I really want to know what else happens. I give this book 4 out of 5 stars, and I highly recommend it to others. It reveals interesting aspects of a future world, and makes you think a lot about the world.

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Summary: Gathering Blue
Review: The story begins with an orphan girl, Kira. Her father died on a hunt, and her mother of sickness. When a tyke (child) becomes an orphan, the normally will give you away to a family that's doesn't have any tykes. This doesn't happen to her. She is different, she has a twisted leg. She is taken to the "big guys", and they tell her that since she has a gift, that is she can do amazing things with string, she can stay in this building. She has chores to do that involve her using her gifts. Throughout the time she lives in this building she acquires friends, Jo and Tomas. She also has a friend from before she moves here whose name in Matt, he is a younger tyke who loves adventures. While living in this place she begins to realize that she is being used for her gifts. At the end of the book Matt goes on a long journey and finds plants that make blue dye, and he also finds her dad. The truth was that he was attacked by the person Kira trusts most, and now he is blind. He asks her to come with him to a place where there are much better people and surrounding, but she cant because she doesn't want to leave Jo and Tomas. The setting of this book was in a futuristic village were there was much fighting and arguing. The main characters were Kira, Tomas, Jo, and Matt. The theme is that you really cant trust everyone, and everything is not what is seems. This book is written in 1st person, and the tone is serious and kind of fun. The only thing I would change about this book is the ending, I would make Kira go with her dad back to "nice" place, and have her take Tomas, Jo, and matt with her. There they could live a fun and peaceful life. Other than that I enjoyed the book greatly. It kept my attention because something new and exciting was always just around the corner.

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Summary: Gathering Blue
Review: "Gathering Blue" by Lois Lowry is written in the third person and is an easily understood book. I enjoyed the overall storyline and it was an attention-grabber. The book began with a young girl named Kira recovering from her mother's death. She, a gifted weaver but now an orphan, is in fear of being casted out of the village. This is because she is of no use to the town due to a deformed leg. She is brought to court and pleads her case to the Council of Guardians. With the knowledge of her artistic ability, they arrange plans for her to be a caretaker of the Singer's Robe. This is a ceremonial garment worn at the annual Ruin Song Gathering by the singer, who depicts the history of the world. She moves to the Council Edifice, one of the few places to survive the Ruin. Kira and other artists who share the stone residence are of great importance. Without giving away the ending, Kira eventually finds the courage to follow her art wherever it may lead. On the whole, I was very fond of this book and would recommend it to all. The only tricky part to me was the ending. It was a little confusing but it made me think harder. All in all I recommend it to everyone. Although I haven't read "The Giver," which is also by Lowry, I took pleasure in reading the book. An interesting and very entertaining book, I am delighted to have read "Gathering Blue."

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Summary: Gathering Blue...Seeing the blessings you have
Review: Gathering blue was an upsetting/Strong/Touching Story. It was about a girl named Kira that was an orphan since she was little. Kira is mentally slow and she is living in a world that rejects the weak. No one decides to help Kira except for a little boy. later on in the book, Kira is summoned to judgement by the council of Guardians and prepairs to fight for her life. What suprises Kira is that the Council Has a plan for her. Kira is blessed with a "magical talent" that keeps her alive. All throughout the book, Kira is up against new responsibilities and a set of mysteries deep within the only world she has ever known. During her quest for the truth, Kira discovers things that will change her life and world forever.

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Summary: not my type of book
Review: Personally, I don't really like futuristic novels about stuff that have a small chance of ever happening. I like books about stuff that could actually happen. About one chapter in to the book I knew that I wasn't going to like it all that much. Kira and the talk about her mother's "spirit" lingering for three days didn't really intrigue me in to reading much more. But since this was assigned for an English project I had to. I also did reader the companion to this "the Giver" and although I didn't like the style of that book either, I do like Lowry's style of writing and her way that she creates this new world that you get sucked into and end up reading chapters at a time. The struggle of Kira throughout the book trying to fit in with her leg and just the general problems that she faces. And the ways that she gets through them with the people that she meets along the way is a great story in its self.
In conclusion, I do think that this is a great book of readers with an active imagination. But just don't let my review turn you a way for this book. Though all the talk of the Council of Edifice and futuristic talk like that turned me away for loving this book doesn't mean that you wont have an appreciation for it.

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Summary: Gathering Blue
Review: Lois Lowry's novel "The Giver" was about the technologically advanced society set in the not to distant future. This book, "Gathering Blue" has been described as a sequel to "The Giver" but even though they are very similar, it doesn't seem like a sequel kind of. Lowry has created the two societies as pretty much the opposite of each other. "The Giver" is very technologically advanced, while "Gathering Blue" takes place in a very primitive world with only the most basic technology. Even though the settings are different, the problems in the society, and tough decisions are practically the same. And both the stories focuses around young people who carries great power and responsibility. "Gathering Blue" is about a 12-year-old girl named Kira who was born with a twisted leg and considered useless. Although the rules of her village would have put her to death, her mother saves her. Unfortunately, in the beginning of the novel, her mother dies from a sickness and her father is said to be dead. Now her amazing skill at embroidery, and her new friends will help her during her struggles and adventures.
In my opinion, "Gathering Blue" was not one of my favorite books, but I also didn't like "The Giver" either. The beginning was dull but it did get better throughout, and the ending was disappointing. I didn't understand why she wouldn't go back with her father, even though she knew what would happen to her eventually if she stayed! Plus, the man that was taking care of her the whole time is the one who blinded her father! I kind of do understand that she wanted to be with her friends and not ditch them.

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Summary: Gathering Blue Review
Review: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry portrays the world in the opposite way as The Giver. This world is one without technology in which only the strongest or those with special abilities can survive.
The story begins with the disabled orphan girl Kira on trial in front of the Council of Guardians. Vandara, an enemy of Kira, believes that Kira should be killed because she cannot help the village in any way. But the council, particularly a man named Jamison, want Kira, who is talented at threading, to restore the sacred Singer's robe. The robe holds the graphic history of the people, and every year at a ceremony called the Gathering, the Singer tells its story.
So Kira is taken in and her job is to work on the robe. An old woman named Annabella teaches Kira how to dye the threads, in all colors except for the mysterious blue. During this time, Kira becomes friends with the boy restoring the Singer's staff, Thomas. They also find the small tyke Jo, who is to become the next Singer. Kira is also friends with another tyke named Matt, and his dog Branch. Around this point, Matt and Branch run away from home, leaving Kira worried.
Finally the yearly Gathering arrives. Matt returns with blue thread for Kira, and a man from another village full of cripples. It is her father, Christopher, who was supposedly taken by beasts on a hunt before Kira was born. Jamison had tried to kill him, but instead left him blind. Christopher wants Kira to return to his village with him, but Kira decides to stay and finish the robe, even if it means to be held in captivity like the Singer, who had metal cuffs around his ankles.
This story is set in the future after many wars in an event known as the Ruin. There no longer remains any technology, and the mood is dark. Kindness and friendliness have been forgotten, and everyone must fend for themselves to survive. A theme of this novel is in a primitive world, only the strongest, or those with special skills or talents, survive. The point of view of this novel is 3rd person narrator, from a limited perspective. The tone is both serious and fearful. It is serious because Lowry is trying to make a point about how difficult life is without technology. It is fearful because Lowry is afraid that this is what it would be like in our society if all technology were lost.
I was disappointed with this novel, but it is still a good read. However, I feel that it didn't live up to the quality of The Giver. I found the plot to be very obvious, and I wasn't surprised at all by the outcome. I think the best part of this novel was the character development. Lowry did a great job in characterization, particularly Matt. So if you enjoyed reading The Giver, I'd recommend Gathering Blue for a different look into the future.