In a similar vein, it’s possible that Lowry was thinking of Fascist Germany when she wrote Gathering Blue: like Germany under Hitler, the village exterminates those who are sick, deformed, or weak. Lowry, whose father served in the military in World War II, may have been thinking of the great cities that were destroyed during the battles of the 1940s: Dresden, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Berlin, etc. When Kira studies the Singer’s robe, she sees buildings engulfed in fire. On the other hand, the telling of history is crucial to the society in Lowry’s book: the annual Gathering ceremony centers around the performance of a long Song of Ruin, a kind of oral history of the world, moving from the origins of a civilization to its decline, and then on to the birth of a new civilization. On one hand, it’s a work of science fiction: there are very few specific allusions to history, since the world Lowry portrays isn’t our own. It’s both very easy and very hard to relate Gathering Blue to historical events. Lowry continues give large numbers of lectures and interviews. Gathering Blue, for instance, includes infanticide, murder, kidnapping, and cannibalism. It’s been noted that Lowry’s books for children address unusually adult subject matter. She followed The Giver, a dystopian fable, with three loosely connected sequels: Gathering Blue (2000), Messenger (2004), and Son (2012). These included Number the Stars (1989) and The Giver (1993), both of which won her the Newbery Medal, the highest honor for children’s literature. Lowry continued to care for her children and write a large number of children’s books throughout the 1980s and 90s. It was also in this year that Lowry divorced her husband. At the age of 40, Lowry published her first book, A Summer to Die, a children’s story inspired by Lowry’s experience dealing with her older sister’s death from cancer. Here, Lowry raised four children while also completing a degree in English. It was only in the 1960s, when Donald settled into a career as a lawyer, that they settled in Maine.
During their early years together, the Lowries lived in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Florida.
She attended high school in New York, and at the age of 19, she married a military officer, Donald Lowry. As a girl, Lowry spent two years in Japan, where she attended junior high school.
In 1939, for instance, the family moved to Brooklyn, New York, and in 1942, when her father was deployed to the Pacific for World War II, the family moved to Pennsylvania. Her father was an army dentist whose work led him to move his family around the country. Lois Lowry was born in Hawaii, the second of three children.
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