Caitie
Caitie asked Lois Lowry:

Ms. Lowry, Thank you for your wonderful contributions to YA literature! I will be studying THE GIVER with my eighth grade students this year. One of our essential questions for the book is about the impact of shared memories on identity and unity in a group. Do you have any thoughts about this that you would be willing to share with my students? Thank you!

Lois Lowry I don't have the book in front of me but I believe it contains a line (which I think is not in the movie, though I may be wrong) in which The Giver tells Jonas that memories must be shared. "Community" is a misnomer without a shared past.
Lois Lowry
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