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Gathering Blue
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The Giver Trilogy: Book 2

Gathering Blue (2002) (edit title/settings)

by Lois Lowry (Author) (edit contributors)

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Kira, an orphan with a twisted leg, lives in a world where the weak are cast aside. When she is given a task that no other community member can carry out, Kira soon realizes that she is surrounded by many mysteries and secrets. No one must know of her plans to uncover the truth about her... read more

Summary edit see section history

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

Characters edit see section history

  • Kira: The main character. She is kept in the Edith after her mum dies because of her ability to make Beautiful embroideries.
  • Thomas: He is a boy Kira met who is gifted in carving wood. He lives down the hall from Kira and they become good friends.
  • Matt: Kira's young friend who speaks improperly and lives in a slum-like neighborhood known as the fen. He is Kira's best friend even though he is younger. Matt is very smart for his age and especially for living in the fen.
  • Jamison: Jamison is Kira's defender in her trial and her overseer/mentor throughout the book.
  • Annabella: She is a gifted in dying thread. She taught both Kira and Katrina how to dye. she is 4 sylables which is very old and she is ful of knowladge.
  • Katrina: Kira's mother. She is a weaver who dies in the beginning leaving Kira an orphan.
  • Jo: A young singer who lives in the wing below kira and Thomas
  • Branch: Matt's dog who accompanied him everywhere he went. He has a bent tail and likes to eat bugs.Matt rescued him and healed the dog and kept it as his own.
  • Christopher: Kira's father. He Died before she was born, but is her really gone?
  • Vandara: A women who lives in the village. She is Kira's rival who despises every move Kira makes.
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  • “She eats alot.”
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  • 'Take pride in your pain,' her mother had always told her. 'You are stronger than those who have none.'
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  • They were forcing the children to describe the future they wanted, not the one that could be.
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  • Fear was always a part of life for the people. Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting. There was fear of cold, of sickness and hunger. There was fear of beasts.
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  • The blue was gathered in her hand, and she could feel it quiver, as if it had been given breath and was beginning to live.
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  • Only then did it occur to Kira to wonder, Who found her? How did they know to look?
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  • Suddenly Kira knew that although her door was unlocked, she was not really free. Her life was limited to these things and this work. She was losing the joy she had once felt when the bright-colored threads took shape in her hands, when the patterns came to her and were her own.
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  • 'Night comes, and colors fade away; sky fades, for blue can never stay...''
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  • It was the way, the custom, and it was the merciful thing, to give an unnamed, imperfect infant back to the earth before its spirit had filled it and made it human.
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  • 'He be there, watching, walking beside, when the draggers tooken the old dyer to the Field,' Matt said. So Jamison already knew.
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  • Because they were artists, they had some value that she could not comprehend. Because of that value, the three of them were here, well fed, well housed, and nurtured.
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First Sentence edit see section history

"Mother?" There was no reply.

Themes & Symbolism edit see section history

  • People are People: Kira is still a person, and gifted at that, although her leg is twisted.
  • Gifts: Everyone has a gift or talent no matter who they are and how big it is.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 2 of 4 in The Giver Trilogy. (standard series)

Preceded by The Giver, and followed by Messenger.

This is book 2 of 3 in La trilogie du Passeur. (standard series)

Preceded by The Giver, and followed by Messenger.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Lois Lowry (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Country: United States
Publication Date: 9/28/2002
ISBN: 9780440229490
Page Count: 215

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Could be hard to understand and has some graphic ideas, but nothing major.

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