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every one who read this book know the efficiency of this book and know how the story finished but i wanna know whats ur understanding about the finishing and if you wanna write a second book and write a continues to this book how would you start?
هر كسي كه اين داستان خونده ميدونه آخر داستان چه اتفاقي افتاد ولي من ميخوام نظر شما رو بدونم و بدونم اگه بخواين براي اين كتاب ادامه بنويسين چه طوري شروع ميكنين؟
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Interesting question. I guess it depends on whether you think the boy actually gets away or not. My initial response is that he does, that he and the baby survive and are taken in by the family inside the house he sees. If that's the case, maybe he goes back to help everyone else deal with the changes he initiated.
But after talking to a friend and thinking a little deeper, I don't think he makes it. So the sequel would be about the town and how it deals with the changes. I'd probably start it several years afterward, with some people having made the adjustment well and others wanting to go back to how it was before.
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This is the first in a trilogy by Lowry. The trilogy isn't necessarily a series about Jonas, but rather a series about different types of communities and what are the advantages and disadvantages of different types of societies. The followups are "Gathering Blue" and "The Messenger". Jonas does show up, but it's not explicitly stated that its him. Careful readers will find out what happened to him in adulthood.
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I agree with Sarah. I think in Gathering Blue, it is easy to infere what happens to Jonas. One can assume the characters described are Jonas and Gabe.
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As a teacher, I have read this book twice to different 6th grade classes. Each class (and I am sure each student) had a different understanding of the ending. The first class I read it to was sure that Jonas had died, and were mad that we had wasted time reading a book that ended that way. The second class I read it to were a little more open, and it helped that I had read Gathering Blue and the Messenger and had a better idea of the ending myself. They were still mad that the book didn't wrap itself up more in the end, but at 12 I guess not many books end that way.
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I read this to 5th graders and had one student who was convinced that they all lived in a biodome. No amount of peer pressure could convince him otherwise. As Jonas rode off into the sunset, my student became elated, sure that he'd reach the wall of the biodome and vindicate him for his classmates. Obviously, that wasn't the ending. To soften the blow for my biodome-centric TAG student we discussed what that sort of ending would've been like. It reminded me of The Twilight Zone that would end with the character having a sudden, powerful realization.
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The ending mirrors the ambiguity of choice. Did he die? Did he live? He was made free, and he made a choice... was it the right one? Did it lead to happiness for him? Did it lead to happiness for the community who will now have his memories? Will they destroy themselves, or will the Giver be able to help them find true purpose and happiness in life? We don't know, because that is the way of all choices, we can't always know the outcomes of our decisions, and therein lies the danger, but the risk is worth the rewards.
The sequel may answer some of these questions, but they aren't answered in this book for a reason.
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Yes, the sequel definitely answers the question, which is one of the reasons it made me so grumpy. I loved the ambiguity of the ending as a teacher (although as a reader it frustrated me).
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This is going to be made into a movie with Jeff Bridges playing The Giver (2009). Is there
any children's book that isn't being made into a movie?
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Bet they give it a happy ending.
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I know, I can't wait to see Howard B. Wigglebotom Learns to Listen on the big screen - it's gonna be f*%#ing awesome!!!
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if im the person who should write the ending i will change the story and i'll made another world in parallel of Jonas world that everything is like as our world and i'll show the differences after that i'll draw a good die for jonas from mental or physical disease. its the real that everyone change his world the life should be changed and no chance for who cant make themeselves like they enviroment is reduced
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I believe that the boy (Jonas) does not live at the end. I don't believe that there actually was a sled just left there on top of the hill, and a house supposedly at the bottom. I'm not saying this to assume the worst, I'm just giving my opinion. I would like to hear more opinions about the ending, and some opinions on mine.
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Lois Lowry has stated repeatedly in interviews that they do live, and did really make it to a safe place. Here's one such interview:
http://tinyurl.com/2r73nj
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Of course she has answered the question in interviews... she also answered it directly in the sequel... the point is, it is unanswered IN THIS BOOK to create ambiguity which is part of the point of the story and of the nature of choice.
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(last edited 10/29/2007 11:50AM)
10/18/2007 12:11PM
I've read this book to 8th graders and 9th graders and I have never had any student question whether they lived or not. Of course, I teach resource so they really take things at face value. I have to say that I have always thought of them living happily ever after whether it was printed on the pages or not. I have not had a chance to read Gathering Blue or the Messenger, but I definitely want to!
*Fixed that Typo!* ;)
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I like that your typo caused you to say "i have never had students question whether they LOVED or not" -
that's a question our 5th graders would have eaten up throughout the book!
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That is her opinion. It does sound like an optimistic ending though.
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What's the sequel again?
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Not really a sequel, but Gathering Blue and The Messenger and similar novels with allusions to Jonas and the community.
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