Eleanor
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Lois Lowry:
You've said in previous interviews that you write with no intent of social commentary. Yet it's hard not to read 'The Giver' series without thinking about, say, the treatment of women who make choices outside of the boundaries set by the cultures in which they live. Don't the novels carry a desire for change, in ourselves and in our larger communities?
Lois Lowry
Those things arise out of the finished book. The fact that they do probably means that they were in my subconscious.
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Amber
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Lois Lowry:
While I was reading a description from a favorite book-adapted film of mine, I read that the author of the original novel helped to write the screenplay for the movie. The movie followed the basic plot of the book. I feel that "The Giver" film respected the book, too. Which brings me to my question: Did you have a hand in writing the screenplay for the film adaptation of "The Giver"?
Lee
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Lois Lowry:
That's no possible that the whole community are colourless, right? I mean the melanin, haemoglobin and carotene, which determine the skin colour--rosy cheeks, pale appearence, yellowish tone on the skin..they can't just make these pigments disappear without affecting body functions, right? HOW does colour absent from their lives?
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