I found that in print The Giver was much easier to embrace, but with the sequels the author again toys with her audience. I was about to walk up and start haranguing the poor woman when her publicist stepped up and offered to send me review copies of the rest of the series.Įncouraged that there really was more to the story, I eagerly agreed. Then, a few months after listening to The Giver, I happened upon Lowry at a book event, sitting alone signing autographs. But it was hard not to feel a little cheated with the book's open-ended conclusion. In a way, The Giver is more allegory than novel, so you could say that it doesn't need to follow the conventional rules of fiction. However, just as we got caught up in Jonas' story, the book stopped. At age 12, Jonas is singled out from his peers and chosen for a special job, to take over from the community's elderly Giver, a mysterious position that he cannot discuss even with his family. As we get into the book we find out why the author made these choices – but to the new reader they are almost offputting enough to make you put the book back down.Īmazingly, despite all this, we found our way into the story. The pace is excruciatingly slow, sentences are simplistic, and the characters are two-dimensional. Even vocabulary is tightly controlled, so that Jonas and the others don't have enough words to describe the things they see and feel. “Claire’s story stands on its own, but as the final volume in this iconic quartet, it holistically reunites characters, reprises provocative socio-political themes, and offers a transcending message of tolerance and hope.In keeping with Jonas' world, Lowry's language is stylistically spare. With Son, the two-time Newbery Medal–winning Lois Lowry has spun another mesmerizing tale in this thrilling and long-awaited conclusion to The Giver. Claire will stop at nothing to find her child. As tempted as she is by the warmth of more human kindness than she has ever known, she cannot stay. In the security of her new home, she is free and loved. But here in this wind-battered village Claire is welcomed as one of their own. When he was taken from their community, she knew she had to follow. She was supposed to forget him, but that was impossible. Summary: “They called her Water Claire.” When the young girl washed up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel.
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