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我觉得每一部lois lowry的书都是很好的，每一部小说的构思和剧情都是不一样的，而且单词难度相当于初三的难度吧。这本书很值得买的，写的很好，就像一贯lois lowry的写作方法，他还是把结尾交给了读者，让大家自己想象结果发生了什么。
是冲着the giver买的 应该不错
I just finished MESSENGER last night. I read GATHERING BLUE last weekend, SON two years ago, and I've been teaching THE GIVER for over 10 years. What I'm about to write probably has SPOILERS, so go read the books instead of my review.
First of all Art mirrors Life and not the other way around. Lowry has created high art with the quartet.
The character who would become Healer mirrors Jesus in his efforts to heal the world and those who live in it.
The sled from THE GIVER is on display in a museum. This makes me think of the bicycles and motorcycles on display at the Indian Motorcycle Museum in Springfield, MA. You should all go to Springfield if you like: motorcycles, Dr. Seuss, Winslow Homer, dinosaurs, stars, basketball, potato pancakes, or ice cream!
Lowry includes a playful puppy named Frolic. I pictured him as identical to my miniature wire-hair dachshund Benji. I was so sad to think Frolic had passed away, but Lowry is the ultimate Trademaster. We had to trade one life to keep another.
The gaming-machines drew parallels to video games. I often think that kids/people do not get anything back for the time they trade into video game machines, which are similar to gambling machines. I found the arc of Mentor's character to be fascinating. He is described as a good teacher who becomes bad and is redeemed back to good; kind of like Darth Vader if Darth Vader was Robin Williams's character in DEAD POETS SOCIETY played by Mikhail Gorbachev. What really sent me into the TWILIGHT ZONE was close to the end when Mentor recites a poem by A.E. HOUSMAN. I myself recited A.E. HOUSMAN poetry to my students just last week, completely unaware of this poem in this book. Art mirrors Life.
Also, this book connects Kira, Christopher/Seer, and Matt from GATHERING BLUE with Jonas/Leader from THE GIVER. There is very little about Gabe here, but that is why it is a quartet. I might have to read SON again, but after reading MESSENGER I am completely satisfied with these stories. MESSENGER makes the other three books better.
One last thing; if you liked THE GIVER, look up Candido Godoi in Brazil...TWIN TOWN!
Look for the interconnectedness of things in life.
This third story by Lois Lowry is a study in altruism and what happens then evil creeps in. The first book, "The Giver" took place in a city where there is technology, and people do not know what love, color, family, etc. are all about. Everything is dictated. All are the same, and those that are different are not appreciated and are breaking the Law in some way.
Lowry's second book takes place in a village where infirmity is bad. It is a hard life, but there are families, most poor, and if you are found to have a Gift, you are whisked away to use it for the village. The story revolves around 3 gifts, and in particular, a girl, Kira, who has a twisted leg and is a weaver, and a young boy, Matty, who does not yet know he has a gift. He goes to a special village and brings back the color blue, in the form of a flower not grown in Kira's town and Kira's father. This story does not particularly overlap with the first story other than to show a different village in the same world.
That brings us to book 3, " The Messenger". Here we are more thoroughly introduced to the village where Matty had found Kira's father. The village started as a truly altruistic community. Everyone was welcomed. Everyone helped everyone, and people, escaping other villages would find their way there. Here there is Leader, who later we find is Jonas from "The Giver". Matty and Kira's father, often called Seer as he was blind but "saw" so much, are also in this village. This is the story of Matty and the village. The people are changing and not for the good. As the people change, so does the forest going from hospitable and welcoming to actually being able to kill people. The village decides to close the gates to outsiders so Matty needs to go back to Kira's village as it is time for her to come home to her family. The journey is fraught with danger. It is truly a fascinating read. The imagery used to show the results of progressive evil using the people and the forest is amazing. It also begins to tie some of the book themes together.
For a young adult, it is a fun read. Lois Lowry does a terrific job of weaving a story, painting a complete picture. For adults it has such depth. This book along with the other 2 gave me much food for thought. I went right on to the fourth story to see how it was wrapped up. Not to give it away, but you will finally get a feel for how the world was through the three settings and the characters. You also get to meet Gabriel's mother and see her journey as well as young Gabe, who is now a young boy. Happy reading!
Messenger does a great job of bridging the worlds of The Giver and Gathering Blue. It is this novel that finally gives readers insight to the vague ending of The Giver and the fate of Jonas and baby Gabe. I picked up on little "Easter eggs" throughout the novel until I finally put them all together and realized what they meant (eventually, it was explicitly stated).
Matty has left life in the village, and Kira, to live with Kira's father in another village, one composed of those outcast from their own communities. Matty, who commonly acts as a messanger between communities, had always seen the forest as welcoming & familiar - until now. As the people of his village become corrupted and selfish as a result of "Trade-Mart", Matty senses a greater force at work, a shift in balance. He realizes that the forest may not welcome him for much longer, and, as the villagers vote to close the borders to outsiders, he must venture to his old village and retrieve Kira.
I'm unhappy with this very short, only 169 pages, third book in the quartet of 'The Giver', by Lois Lowry. It's much smaller in size than the others, and is so out of place. Where the other installments promise spiritual uplifting this "Messenger" book teases sameness but not only doesn't deliver on the premise but diminishes it, considerably.
The short story, small book, substantial differences between what had been the unassertive preternatural is now in-your-face magic, suggesting a change in what the original story was leading to. Has the author lost direction? I would skip this installment.
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