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Gathering Blue is a young adult-dystopian novel written by Lois Lowry and was published on September 25, 2000. [1] A companion book to The Giver (1993), it is set in the same future time period and universe, treats some of the same themes, and is followed by Messenger (2004) and Son (2012) in The Giver Quartet.
Darkness and Light: Throughout “Sonny’s Blues”, there is a tension between light and darkness. Baldwin uses darkness to describe the adversity that the characters go through. “All [the youth] really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded ...
The story follows Claire, the Birthmother of Gabriel, who was marked for "release" in The Giver before being taken out of the community by Jonas. Claire, obsessed with finding her son, embarks on a journey out of the community in an attempt to follow and find him. [ 1 ]
From the darkness dread & drear, Her light fled, Stony, dread, And her locks covered with grey despair. Prisoned on watery shore, Starry jealousy does keep my den Cold and hoar; Weeping o’er, I hear the father of the ancient men. Selfish father of men! Cruel, jealous, selfish fear! Can delight, Chained in night, The virgins of youth and ...
The novel's unfinished state has led to a variety of speculations regarding its possible ending. [1] While Kusatao Nakamura predicted Tsuda's and Kiyoko's falling in love again, resulting in the grieving O-Nobu's suicide, Kenzaburō Ōe and Shōhei Ōoka saw a reunion of husband and wife after a crisis-inflicted illness of either O-Nobu (Ōe's version) or Tsuda (Ōoka' version) and their ...
The Giver Quartet is a series of four books about a dystopian world by Lois Lowry. The quartet consists of The Giver (1993), Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012). [1] [2] The first book won the 1994 Newbery Medal and has sold more than 10 million copies. [3] [4] The story takes place in the world of The Giver. Each book has a ...
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
The Light and the Dark is the fourth novel in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. [2] The book portrays narrator Lewis Eliot's friendship with Roy Calvert, and Calvert's inner turmoil and quest for meaning in life. Calvert was based on Snow's friend, Coptic scholar, Charles Allberry. [3] Their relationship is developed further in The ...