Gathering Blue

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Summary: Abi's Review of Gathering Blue by Lois Lowery
Review: Gathering Blue is a book about a girl named Kira who lives in a controlled community where she has power over nothing without any choices. Her father lives in a free community where everybody helps each other out and there isn't any dictator(s). Which world will she choose read the book to find out.
All together I thought this was a very good book. I thought that Sharon Creech has created another beautifully written book. If you loved the Giver you'll love Gathering Blue even more.If your looking for a book you can lose your self in this is your book! I'd rate this book for ages 11 and up.This is a wonderfully written book but readers under 10 would not really understand parts of Gathering Blue.I loved this book and hopefully so will you!

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Summary: An Excellent Companion
Review: Gathering Blue is an excellent book depicting how weakness is often an asset. This book does work off the same concepts that the Giver did. A futuristic society where somekind of a disaster wiped out most of the population. Lowry delves into the culture of the societies that form after the catastrophe. I was not as pleased with this book as I was with The Giver. The Giver seemed to show the beginning of change within the society. While usually I like books that end abruptly I think Lowry should have reconsidered ending the book so shortly after the climax. I really felt unfullfilled after reading the book, it felt like the book ended right when it was becoming exciting. I have heard Lowry is writing a third book that will finish the series lets hope she ties up the ends for us.

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Summary: Gathering Blue is a shocking story
Review: Gathering Blue is about a girl with a twisted leg. Everyone is the community hates her because she is weak. This story shows how even the weakest person can be the strongest of us all. I extremely recommend this book for all ages. It is a very encouraging book and will give you good thoughts all day.

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Summary: Great book
Review: I've read the Giver and Gathering Blue. As some of you may know I wrote a review on The Giver.

Gathering Blue is about a girl named Kira. Kira has no more family after her mother dies so she has to live at a place called the Edifice. In order to live at the Edifice she has to gather different colors to weave. She doesn't know how to get the color dyes so she goes in search of the old dyer Annabella. She learns of all the colors except for blue! If she does'n fin any blue fast, she won't be able to finish the robe!!!!

Read this book to find out more.
( I hope I didn't spoil anything to you readers)('_') (>_<)do'h

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Summary: The Gathering
Review: Gathering blue is a very touching book. Kira's mom died leave herself in a world who people hate her because of her twisted leg. Kira have a talent to thread just about anything. So the Conselors saved her from dieing. But when she finally know who killed her father.........her father return with blue, told her the story of his life, Kira wanted to do something, but she wanted to stay and change the world.
I think this is a very good book.

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Summary: True Blue
Review: Kira's mother is dead in the beginning of the book. From that point on, Kira, who used to be shielded by her mother, is now left alone, deserted. In the futuristic colony of yesterday, we learn that someone can be simply ranked by their name. Even though the village itself is in barberous and unadvanced settings, it seems to take place in the future.

In Kira's world, everything is set around the solemn annual ceremony. After Singer wears at the ceremony. She and Thomas, the boy who carves the singers's staff, learn who they really are, and what's really happening..........................The truth is not what is seems.

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Summary: I liked it...
Review: Lois Lowry has created another book, though not as good as the Giver.

Kira is abandoned when her mothers sudden death occurs. Unwanted by anyone - not even her mother's brother - she is faced with the Council Edifice, to decide her fate. Whether she will remain in the village, or whether she will be fed to the beasts.

They keep her, for her amazing talent in thread. She far surpassed her mother in the art, letting her hands lead her where they wanted.

She is given the tedious task of fixing the Singers Robe for the annual gathering of the town.

-Now, I loved the Giver - I read it when I was in the 2nd grade. But Gathering Blue lacked something. Possibly... an ending?

I loved it until the last chapter. You find out -seriously- important things, and then it ends.

1. Whether in fact, her mother had been murdered, and not "sick".
2. Whether not just her, but the other children's parents were also murdered.
3. Why the Singer was kept in an entirely different part of the Council building; though not why he was chained up.

This book left a lot of loose ends. I definately reccomend it, if you want to think up your own ending to the book.

Also, if you hated the Giver, odds are you'll hate this too. And if you loved/liked the Giver, you'll more than likely feel the same towards Gathering Blue.

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Summary: A Masterpiece
Review: Lois Lowry has once again created a hauntingly real book. "Gathering Blue" is the story of Kira, a crippled girl in a future society that is primitive, cruel, and disdainful of the weak. When Kira's mother dies, she is left to fend for herself, alone in a community of hostile people who wouldn't miss her if she died. Yet Kira survives when the Council of Elders (who control the village) spares her because of her remarkable weaving talent...and Kira has no idea how her life is about to change. I love many things about this book. First, I'm amazed at how "personal" this piece of futuristic fiction is. Lois Lowry has created a deeply moving character startlingly similar to us...so different from the "otherwordly" creatures of most futuristic and science fiction novels. The portrayal of Kira's talent was perfect, and I could feel her connection to the cloth and the power of creativity flowing through her, and this book's subtle message that "forced" talent loses some of its creativity and joy was very powerful. Last, but certainly not least, the mystery and sunspense in this book was wonderful. I was constantly wondering about Kira's unanswered questions and wanted to discover the sinister mystery surrounding the village and Kira's father's untimely death. There really is something for everyone in this masterpiece of a book.

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Summary: A wonderfully cryptic book
Review: The story is that of the life of Kira, a young orphan with a bent leg living in a future society that has no tolerance for faults.
With no one to protect her, Kira should rightfully be sent to her death in the field.
She is surprised to find, however, that she is chosen by the Council of
Guardians for a special task. With a warm bed, food, and an interesting job, her troubles appear to be
over until she discovers things that concern her, her father's death, and her very destiny.
This is a cryptic book that is good for ages 10+.

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Summary: Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry
Review: I had not heard of Lois Lowry until I had to read The Giver in my literature class. That book was excellent! Because of The Giver,I went on to read Lois Lowry's Gathering Blue. It, too, was a good book although I did not think it was as strong as The Giver.
Like The Giver, Gathering Blue is set in a fantasy society. But this society does not have a futuristic feel to it as in The Giver. It has more of a distant-past feel to it; almost a Middle Ages-type setting.
The main character is Kira. She is a young girl who has a deformed leg and walks with a limp. If it was not for her mother defending her, Kira would have been banished from the village because of her deformity. And now, she faces this very threat again because her mother recently passed away and is no longer around to protect Kira.
Now an orphan, some hateful members of the village are looking to rid of Kira of their neighborhood and take over the small piece of land where her hut is built.
Kira has a special talent; weaving. Because of this the authorities assign her the the job of weaving the special cloth that depicts her society's history. This special garment tells the story of man from the beginning of time. Being the "weaver" is a prestigious position with much responsiblity.
With this assignment comes a new awareness of her world and its stark realities. She is no longer a protected little girl but one who must mature and make her place in the world. She now sees the world in a different light. Her new responsibilities and the challanges they bring result in the wisdom and growth of her character. She faces important decisions in which the consequences will be life-altering, not only to herself, but to her society as a whole.
I liked this book because of its non-traditional setting. The situation in which the character is placed is a great exercise in imagination. Yet on a universal level, one can relate to the "coming of age" phases the main character must go through.