A Study Guide for Lois Lowry's "Gathering Blue"
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Gathering Blue
Lois Lowry
2000
Introduction
In Lois Lowry's Gathering Blue (2000), an orphaned weaver named Kira is appointed to a high position in her village as the threader of the Singer's robe, a ceremonial garment that tells the story of humanity's rise and destruction. Life after the Ruin is devoid of technology, women are forbidden to learn to read, and tales of human-eating beasts in the forests keep the poor villagers too frightened to stray far from home. However, when Kira hears a rumor that the beasts are not real, her world flips upside down. Kira discovers the depths of the deceit by the Council of Guardians: they will stop at nothing to preserve the culture's status quo and protect their own power. Kira pays a personal price for this knowledge, because she is unable to flee the village without first trying her best to save it.
Gathering Blue is the sequel to Lowry's famous novel The Giver and the second of four novels in the The Giver quartet. An example of the young-adult dystopian genre that Lowry is credited with popularizing, Gathering Blue is set in a primitive, postapocalyptic society where life is hard and short.
Author Biography
Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on March 20, 1937, to Robert and Katharine Hammersberg. Because her father was an army dentist, Lowry's family moved frequently, and Lowry went to school in Japan before returning to the United States, where she graduated from high school. Throughout her childhood she dreamed of becoming a writer. She attended Brown University for two years before she discontinued studies. After marrying a naval officer, Donald Lowry, and starting a family, Lowry enrolled at the University of Southern Maine, where she earned her bachelor's degree.
Media Adaptations
Gathering Blue was released as an audiobook narrated by Katherine Borowitz and published by the Listening Library in 2008. The run time is five hours and twenty-seven minutes.
Gathering Blue was adapted into a play by Eric Coble, published by Dramatic Publishing in 2015.
Lowry's first novel, A Summer to Die, was published in 1977 and was followed by the first novel, Anastasia Krupnik (1979), in a series of the same name. Lowry was awarded her first Newbery Medal for her novel Number the Stars (1989). The Giver, first published in 1993, also won the Newbery Medal. The Giver sold over