Danine

Danine asked Lois Lowry:

I adore "The Willoughbys". Where did the idea(s) for this book and characters come from?

Lois Lowry Probably The Willoughbys came for all the books I read as a child

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I'm intrigued by a society that strives to be better in its safety and sameness. So many details in The Giver make the fictional world real, like receiving bicycles at the same time, or speech protocols to keep conversations predictable. I wonder if there were other details or systems you considered for this world that were ultimately not included in the book, and if that was the case, why not?

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Robin asked Lois Lowry:

In the movie the flashes of the past includes many impactful moments, but only one that was devastating, the Vietnam War clip; how was that one decided on rather than maybe the Holocaust images or any others for that matter?

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