The+Giver+By+Mallory+Austin

= This book is written by Lois Lowry. = = I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. My older sister, [|Helen], was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. Little brother [|Jon] was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad; together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets; and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination. Because my [|father] was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. I was born in [|Hawaii], moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to [|Tokyo] when I was eleven. High school was back in New York City, but by the time I went to college (Brown University in Rhode Island), my family was living in Washington, D.C. I [|married] young. I had just turned nineteen - just finished my sophomore year in college - when I married a Naval officer and continued the odyssey that military life requires. California. Connecticut (a daughter born there). Florida (a son). South Carolina. Finally Cambridge, Massachusetts, when my husband left the service and entered Harvard Law School (another daughter; another son) and then to Maine - by now with [|four children] under the age of five in tow. My children grew up in Maine. So did I. I returned to college at the University of Southern Maine, got my degree, went to graduate school, and finally began to write professionally, the thing I had dreamed of doing since those childhood years when I had endlessly scribbled stories and poems in notebooks. After my marriage ended in 1977, when I was forty, I settled into the life I have lived ever since. Today I am back in [|Cambridge], Massachusetts, living and writing in a house dominated by a very shaggy Tibetan Terrier named [|Bandit]. For a change of scenery Martin and I spend time in [|Maine], where we have an old (it was built in 1768!) farmhouse on top of a hill. In Maine I garden, feed birds, entertain friends, and read.. 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. A Summer to Die, my first book, was a highly fictionalized retelling of the early death of my sister, and of the effect of such a loss on a family. Number the Stars, set in a different culture and era, tells the same story: that of the role that we humans play in the lives of our fellow beings. The Giver - and Gathering Blue, and the newest in the trilogy: Messenger - take place against the background of very different cultures and times. Though all three are broader in scope than my earlier books, they nonetheless speak to the same concern: the vital need of people to be aware of their interdependence, not only with each other, but with the world and its environment. My older son was a [|fighter pilot] in the United States Air Force. His death in the cockpit of a warplane tore away a piece of my world. But it left me, too, with a wish to honor him by joining the many others trying to find a way to end conflict on this very fragile earth. I am a grandmother now. For my own [|grandchildren] - and for all those of their generation - I try, through writing, to convey my passionate awareness that we live intertwined on this planet and that our future depends upon our caring more, and doing more, for one another. =

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= Why do you need to make choices? Wouldn't be better to have someone choose for you? You need to make choices because you got to foolow your own plan and your own dreams. Don't let others step in your way because no matter who are you will be succesful. It wouldn't be better if people chose your path for you because they might make you do something they want to do but you don't want to do it.

WHAT IS SOCIETY

Dictionary Definition:

A **society** or a **human society** is **(1)** a group of people [|related] to each other through persistent relations such as [|social status], [|roles] and [|social networks]

Your definition IN YOUR WORD: A group of people in the world that people are involved in.

CREATE A SOCIETY OF YOURS. WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE? My society would be a very nice place to live. There would be very less drama so you don't have to worry bout anybody talking about you or any thing like that. I hope that it would be a less violent place and it would very easy to make money. That is what my society would be like. Also, it would have full of diversity, which means no one is the same. The rules would be to be your self and don't do bad things or bad things would come to you. No fake people! We all know how every body hates fake people and don't want to be involved with their drama. Last, but not least, school would be so much better. You will learn alot but you would have no homework. One FULL sentence is 1 point.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST YOUR SOCIETY TO TODAY's There is alot uf drama in today's society and no drama in mine. Both have jobs and houses and restaraunts. Mine has less violence and today's has alot of violence. (Always true! - Lien) One comparision 1 point.

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