Grace asked Lois Lowry:

Some of your books like the Giver or the Silent Boy have endings that don't end that great for the character. I was wondering how you take characters that you love and make bad things happen to them.

Lois Lowry I just think about what life consists of and how we must all face hardships. It would be dishonest to pretend otherwise

Do you believe that the increase of social media, videos games and other time consuming media (excluding books) emulates the emotion controlling drugs in The Giver?

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