Biscuits'n'jam
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Lois Lowry:
in your head do you have longer backstories for all of the characters?
Lois Lowry
Yes, I do...and knowing what to leave out is important. You have to trust and respect the reader's intelligence.
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Julia
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Lois Lowry:
After the end of "The Giver" series do you image the characters continuing their lives after the end of "son" like any other reader or do you just stop the story? If so what happens next in your imagination? for example do you image Jonas getting old, Gabe growing up, how they continued to live...
Morgane Cpl
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Lois Lowry:
Hello! I'm thinking about writing my master's thesis on partly The Giver and partly Brave New World set both in a dystopian context. My question is as follows : are the books from The Giver quartet independent from each other or should we read Gathering Blue before Messenger or Son for instance?
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