Gathering Blue By Lois Lowry Thesis Statement: Knowing one’s identity is a way of fulfilling one’s life purpose Introduction: The uniqueness of one’s personality‚ character and abilities defines his identity. Knowing one’s distinctiveness is a grueling process. A person must have enough strength and perseverance to surpass obstacles. He must be able to accept whatever mistake he does and learn from it. Gradually‚ the person will be able to know his true identity once he reaches a certain point
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There were many inequalities in the novel Gathering Blue. Inequalities that were not necessary and could have been fixed. Many of the problems were due to people being selfish and not wanting everybody to be equal. Kira‚ the main character‚ was subjected to most of the inequalities. She was deemed imperfect by everyone and it changed her life. In the novel Gathering Blue‚ not all people have the same rights; Mainly the physically imperfect people‚ the talented and the poor people. Kira is just
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The book Gathering Blue is the story of a young weaver named Kira who lives in a community. The community is somewhat primitive and does not have running water and people live in cotts made out of brambles and sticks. Kira’s mother dies and Kira has to sit with her at the field per the way they mourn. When she returns to rebuild her cott on her mother’s space‚ another woman with a scar across her face challenges her for the land area. Kira has a foot that drags and has much pain from it. She has
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I am writing a paper on the similarities of the setting between two books‚ The Giver and Gathering Blue both by the same author Lois Lowry. To start off‚ in both of the books they have annual gatherings each year that start in the morning‚ are multiple hours long‚ have lunch and resting breaks and continue into the afternoon. During these gatherings or celebrations the celebrate their past and their maturity and age. Another likeness is that they both have a committee of elders or the people that
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Zachary Robert Luedders Summer Reading Summery (Gathering Blue) July 24‚ 2013 Plot: Kira is a girl with a twisted leg who lives in a more primitive society where people who cannot work‚ die. She has been kept alive by her mother‚ and when her mother dies‚ Kira is brought before the Council of Guardians. Kira’s life is spared when she proves she can weave very well‚ and she is assigned to the task of fixing up the robe worn by the singer whose only job is to sing the story of human civilization
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Gathering Blue- Essay Plan Introduction: Joseph Stalin was a dictator who was responsible for massive crimes against humanity‚ and ruled a communist country. From 1924-1953‚ Joseph had killed over 20 million people during the Revolutionary regime. Joseph was part of a communist dictatorship. Communism is a system of organization where all economic activity is controlled by a single political party. Along with communism‚ comes dictatorship. This is the complete power or authority of a dictator
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~ How much power and influence should the government have? Gathering Blue The government shouldn’t have too much power and influence nor too little because there will be some bad side effects. For example‚ in the book Gathering Blue‚ the government is considered to have too much power which isn’t good for many reasons. One reason is it controls the people too much. Also‚ people didn’t want to go in the fields because they feared the beasts‚ which were made up by the government. This shows they are
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The definition of sadness is “feeling or showing sorrow; unhappy”. Everyone experiences sadness‚ In chapters one and two of Gathering Blue Kira personally experienced multiple moments of sadness. In the fiction novel‚ Gathering Blue‚ by Lois Lowry‚ the author creates certain moods in chapters one and two. One mood created was sadness. In chapters one and two the mood of sadness is shown when Kira is thinking about how her mother had died from a disease. After four sunsets and sunrises‚ it was
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It is not what is seen that circles the mind‚ it is the unseen. Books‚ movies and society in general present the “unseen” and the “unknown” to develop the characters and plots. Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry illustrates the “unseen” and the “unknown” through the rumors associated with the beasts. Kira‚ the main character‚ along with her friends discover the truth from exploring what society does not see. The “unseen” and “unknown” elements throughout the novel facilitate Kira’s knowledge of the dystopian
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Gathering Blue I am doing a book review on Gathering Blue by the author Lois Lowry. This book all in all is pretty good‚ just some parts can be difficult to grasp at once. This books plot is mainly about this girl that has deformed leg‚ twisted‚ she is now an orphan. Her father died at war before she was even born. At the beginning of the story the mother dies of illness. This book isn’t predictable and is consistent for the most part. I think that it is very believable‚ just a little less advanced
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