Essay On Gathering Blue

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Gathering Blue is a novel written by Lois Lowry. Gathering Blue is part two in The Giver quartet. This story takes place in a nameless village surrounded by trees where creativity is restricted, disabled people are thought to be useless and killed, and talent is not to be shown. The village can also be known as a dystopian future. A tragedy has happened and now the human race has drastically decreased, and the world is separated into small, self-governed communities. This village is governed by the Council of Guardians whose job is to keep everyone safe and everything in order. The crippled main character, Kira, becomes orphaned after her mother, Katrina, dies. Her father, Christopher, never returned home after a hunting trip when she…show more content…
She is still questioning how she feels about the Council of Guidance, and she has still not seen Matt. The ceremony soon approaches, and Kira is excited and nervous at the same time. She is very pleased with the robe, and she gets to sit by the singer. Kira notices that the singers feet are bound by chains, and his feet are infected from the chains. As the singer leaves, he leaves a thin trail of blood following him. No one notices this but Kira. Kira is horrified, and she and Thomas head back to the Council of Edifice where they see Matt. Matt is not alone; he has a stranger from a distant village with him. The stranger is Christopher, Kira’s father. This is Kira’s first time seeing her father, and she has a lot of different emotions. She is very confused because everyone had told her he was dead. Christopher explains he wasn’t attacked by beasts but by a man in the village because he wanted to take Christopher’s spot. When the man attacked Christopher, he left him there to die but people from another village saw Christopher and took him back to their village and nursed them back to health. They could not heal all of Christopher’s injuries, though. He is now blind. Christopher explains that the people at the village he was at were kind and help each
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