Born Lois Ann Hammersberg on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii, Lowry is one of America's most popular and versatile children's book authors. She has written in a variety of fictional forms, from the WWII tale Number the Stars to the lighthearted adventures of Anastasia Krupnik to the ...
Lowry explains, “My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections." Born in Hawaii, Lowry, the second of three children, moved all over the world with her Army dentist father. Aw...
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About Lois Lowry Lowry was born on March 20, 1937 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The middle child, she had an older sister, Helen, and a young brother, Jon. She describes herself as "a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own imagination" ( Lowry , "Biography"). Because ...
Lois Lowry the author is explaining a whole different world than ours in this world he describes a person calledthe giverwho is the receiver who hands off the job to Jonas one of the main characters who asks the receiver about all his memories and about what his job will be like. Jones...
On September 29, 1943, word got out in Denmark that Jews were to be detained then sent to the death camps. Within hours the Danish resistance, population police arranged a small flotilla to herd 7,000 Jews to Sweden. Lois Lowry fictionalizes a true-story account to bring this courageous ...
After Jonas watched his father ‘releasing’ a newborn child, he decided with the Giver to escape this community that are all the same and find his way to elsewhere and get beyond. Jonas does this because he wants the memories to go back to the people and allow them to choose their own...
Lowry shows the importance of deep emotions and family through Jonas. Jonas becomes the new receiver of memory and learns about the past. He also learned about the way it was when people knew what love was. Jonas’ father releases newborn children because they don’t weight the correct ...
Near death awaits him at the border of Aztlan, luckily Matt is able to hop the border, and land right in the arms of the Keepers. Conformity was the key to surviving with the lost boys, but Matt did not conform easily. Had he been ignorant to the ways of the world –like the ...