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Caleb Norman asked Lois Lowry:

How long did it take you to create and develope the characters and setting in the Giver?

Lois Lowry It took me a year to write the book
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A Goodreads user asked Lois Lowry:

Mrs. Lowry, If the community prides itself on perfection and refuses to speak of the past, why does it insist on keeping any memories of the past at all, although only with one person? Why would they not squash all recollection of how the world used to be instead of burdening one man? Sincere thanks! Hope N.

Isobel
Isobel asked Lois Lowry:

When you were a child, did you make up a world for yourself? Is there a comparative book-world to that world?

Victoria S
Victoria S asked Lois Lowry:

I read The Giver this year, and I loved it.. :) In the last years, a lot of dystopic books had been released, what do you think about the "boom" of dystopian novels?... Have you read some of this new dystopian books/series? and if you did,, which one do you like the most?..

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