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Lois Lowry



Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii. To parents Robert and Katharine (Landis) Hammersberg. Initially, Lois' parents named her "Sena" for her [|Norwegian] grandmother but upon hearing this, her grandmother [|telegraphed] and instructed Lois' parents that the child should have an American name.[|[3]] Her parents chose the names Lois and Ann, which were the names of her father's sisters. Lowry was born the middle of three children. She had an older sister, Helen, and a younger brother Jon. Helen, three years older than Lois, died in 1962 at the age of 28. This experience informed Lowry's first [|book] //[|A Summer to Die]// which is about a young girl who tragically loses her older sister (which is also a subplot of //[|Number the Stars]//). Lowry's brother Jon is six years younger than she and grew up to be a doctor. He and Lois continue to enjoy a close relationship.[|[4]] Lowry's father was a career military officer - an Army [|dentist], - whose work moved the family all over the United States and to many parts of the world. Lowry and her family moved from Hawaii to [|Brooklyn], [|New York], in 1939 when Lowry was two years old and later relocated to her mother's hometown, [|Carlisle, Pennsylvania], in 1942 when Lowry's father was deployed to the Pacific during [|World War II]. Lowry's father served on a [|hospital ship] called the [|USS Hope] and on the island of [|Tinian] during the war.[|[4]]

As her children became older, Lowry found time to complete her degree in English literature from the University of Southern Maine[|[6]] in Portland in 1972. After earning her B.A., she pursued graduate studies at her alma mater. It was during this coursework that she was introduced to photography, which became a life-long passion as well as a profession. Her specialty was child photography, but she also took pictures to accompany the articles she submitted as a freelance journalist. It was while working on a freelance journalism piece for //[|Redbook]// magazine that Lowry got her first book opportunity, when the article she wrote caught the attention of an editor at [|Houghton Mifflin] publishing. The story Lowry had written for the magazine was meant for adults but was written through the eyes of a child. The editor at Houghton Mifflin recognized an upcoming talent and suggested that Lowry write a children's book. She agreed and wrote //[|A Summer to Die]// which was published in 1977. As Lowry nurtured her budding careers, she and Donald Lowry found they were no longer compatible; they divorced in 1977 when Lowry was 40 years old. Lowry said the following of these transitional years of her life: "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."[|[4]]

The Giver //**The Giver**// is a 1993 [|soft science fiction] [|novel] by [|Lois Lowry]. It is set in a future society which is at first presented as a [|utopian society] and gradually appears more and more [|dystopian]. The novel follows a boy named Jonas through the twelfth year of his life. The society has eliminated pain and strife by converting to "Sameness", a plan which has also eradicated [|emotional] depth from their lives. Jonas is selected to inherit the position of "Receiver of Memory," the person who stores all the memories of the time before Sameness, in case they are ever needed to aid in decisions that others lack the experience to make. When Jonas meets the Giver, he is confused in many ways. The Giver is also able to break some rules, such as turning off the speaker and lying to people of the community. As Jonas receives the memories from the previous receiver—the "Giver"—he discovers the power of knowledge. The people in his community are happy because they don't know of a better life but the knowledge of what they are missing out on could create chaos. He faces a dilemma: Should he stay with the community, his family living a shallow life without love, color, choices and knowledge or should he run away to where he can live a full life? Despite controversy and criticism that the book's subject material is inappropriate for young children, //The Giver// won the 1994 [|Newbery Medal] and has sold more than 5.3 million copies. [//[|citation needed]//] In Australia, the [|United States] and Canada, it is a part of many [|middle school] reading lists, but it is also on many [|challenged] book lists and appeared on the [|American Library Association]'s list of the most challenged books of the 1990s.[|[1]] The novel forms a loose trilogy with //[|Gathering Blue]// (2000) and //[|Messenger]// (2004), two other books set in the same future.

What is society Dictionary Difinition: A large group that shares the same geographical territory and is subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

What is society in your words: A group of people that live in the same city or state.

Creat a society of yours what would it be like: The society that i would have would be the same as the one we have right now. But some rules would be different. You would be able to pick your job just as the society we have right now.

Compare and Contrast your society from today's:the society that i have is the same on as today. Some rules are different but some are not.

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