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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.

Why do you need to make choices ? Wouldnt it be easier if someone made them for you ?

We need to make choices so we can do whatever we want in life. If someone made them for us it wouldnt be the same we might not likee what they choose for us ! We do need to make choices in life, right or wrong we learn our lessons. And we need to learn our lessons for our own good. Every choice has a consequence it may be good or bad but we learn from it. When other people make choices for us and they are bad we dont get to learn a lesson because we didnt make that choice. Life without choices would be boring like why have choices if your not going to make them. Choices is a privilage so if your not making the choices why even have choices.

WHAT IS SOCIETY Dictionary Definition: an organized group of persons associated together for religious, benevolent, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.

Your definition IN YOUR WORD: Society is a group of people that have things in common likee religion, beliefs, ideas, and thoughts.

CREATE A SOCIETY OF YOURS. WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE? My society would be way different then todays society. My society would be about self expression and what you believe in (WHAT IF I BELEIVE IN SATANISM AND WANT TO SLAUGHTER PEOPLE FOR SATAN?)[Uhm Wells You can bellieve in that but you cants kills peoplesss becausee we need to have population in our community]. My laws would be sort of the same but a little different. We wont judge by race, age, or gender. We will accept anything but LIARS (COME ON NOBODY LIES... THEY ONLY SHOW THE OTHER VERSION OF THE TRUTH) ! We dont want fakes, drama (NO DRAMA, THEN WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO FRIDGE?), or liars in our society because its just trouble and we want a trouble free community. (WHAT WILL YOU DO IF PEOPLE LIE OR GIVE TROUBLE?)[Send themm to therapy or jail uhm depends on what the lie was and what kind of trouble.] My society would be different than others. Choices will be made by yourself we wont make them for you. You can choose what you want to do in life and how you want to do it. We wont judge you because of how you are or how you were raised those are choices made by your parents. We wont judge ethnicity, sex or gender. Everyone will be treated equally in my society.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST YOUR SOCIETY TO TODAY'S My society is different then societies today because in these societies you get judged but in mine you wont. They have terrible laws against people (I WONDER LIKE WHAT?)[Like Gay people cant marry andd they are so racist]. Society makes choices for peoplee that some might not like (HOW DOES TODAYS SOCIETY MAKE CHOICES FOR YOU?)[Like at what age you can drink and what age you can smoke and what age you can start school etc.]. In my society you can make YOUR choice because its your life and be a good or bad choice there is always a consequence.

GREAT JOB BABBYMOMMA ( : - LiLO MAyS.

GOODJOB it made me cry -Mallory Austin

//( Thats Very Truee (: Nicee Job On This Projectt xD ( Brookins ]// (Thankssss :))

good job. i smell tacos..... LOL :P -Hanan-

Thatss A Good Startt ; Yhu Still Stinkk Likee Bluee -Samiaa-

good job -dangelo b