Entry 7 - research to know more about your book/author

   As my two research exercises I chosen were Author Isolations
 which is reading about the other books the author wrote and
relate them to the current book and Biography squats which is
to read about the authors life and see if it influences the book in
anyway.

   As I read about the books that Lois Lowry I noticed this book
that was familiar to me and I found that the book Number the
Stars was a book that I read in my old school and I really liked
that book because of its theme of how these people endured
pain and were hunted and as the main character witness these
events as a child she would undergo this transformation where
this is the world in front of her is the real world not blinded by
the mist where truths are hidden to you as a kid. It was just the
same in my childhood book The Giver as Jonas is changed by
the truth of how things worked in his world while he is a child
he could have chosen to ignore the fact like the kid he is or he
takes a wise decision and leave everything behind.
   Reading the biography made me notice that in her life she
talked about how all of her book related to her life, like for a
example she wrote the book A Summer to Die was a book
she wrote about her sister's early death and her feeling of loss
over it. So I've learned that great books require real life
experiences to actually make a connection to the reader or give
the book a meaning instead of just entertaining the reader.

Entry #6 The Giver

My most interesting note or the note that stood
out to me most was probably are the notes
I wrote on Jonas's parents because of how they are
well developed into that kind of character you would
expect them to be in this book. I really like how they
are designed like robots in this story and how cold they
are. For a example on page149 where Jonas's dad
just kills a baby and almost dust his hands off and
takes it as a joke about where he says "bye bye little guy".
Also on page 127 as if they were avoiding Jonas's question
of whether they love him or not, and they give these
automatic responses you would expect a lifeless
person would say. But still I should be hating these
characters but you have to feel sorry for them
since they don't feel anything for what they do since
it was taken away from them, their just simple doing
what they have to do, I think if they were given the
emotions to choose they would've done the right thing instead.