http://www.fairsfair.com/2007/11/09/back-back-back-to-lois-lowrys-the-giver/ "For Book Lovers" Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:20:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 http://www.fairsfair.com/2007/11/09/back-back-back-to-lois-lowrys-the-giver/#comment-15 stones Thu, 15 Nov 2007 05:40:37 +0000 http://www.fairsfair.com/2007/11/09/back-back-back-to-lois-lowrys-the-giver/#comment-15 I read this book first in grade 5 or so. I continued to go back to it year after year, and sent on my tattered copy to a friend to read. I think I might have it somewhere, but it's been a long time since I've re-read it. What has always stuck with me is Jonas' first glimpse of color.... even upon my first reading, I was really taken aback. How do you describe a color when there has only even been the absence of it? I think that was my first real idea of trying to capture an abstraction, and that may well be why I've always had a place in my heart for The Giver. It's about time you found it!! I read this book first in grade 5 or so. I continued to go back to it year after year, and sent on my tattered copy to a friend to read. I think I might have it somewhere, but it’s been a long time since I’ve re-read it. What has always stuck with me is Jonas’ first glimpse of color…. even upon my first reading, I was really taken aback. How do you describe a color when there has only even been the absence of it? I think that was my first real idea of trying to capture an abstraction, and that may well be why I’ve always had a place in my heart for The Giver. It’s about time you found it!!

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