JONAS LIVES!!!!
[mood: :O wtf] [thinking about: The Giver]
I am currently helping Jeanette with her 5th grade english homework. She is reading one of my fav books, The Giver. She told me about how they are also reading two other books that form a "loose trilogy" with The Giver, Messenger and Gathering Blue. She already read GB, and with a quick wiki search, I found out it's about some chick named Kira [DEATHNOTE]. Well if you don't remember, the star of TG is a boy named Jonas. Well anyways, while browsing through wikipedia, I looked up the page for Messenger, and it says:
"Characters from the two earlier books reappear in Messenger, linking the novels more strongly."You know what that means. It means Jonas is freaking alive. This angers me. One of my favorite parts about the original novel is that it had such a great open-ended conclusion to it. It was up to the reader to decide whether or not Jonas was alive or dead, and the fact that it was left unknown just made it a powerful ending. I also remember reading that Lois Lowry told readers that it was all up to their own interpretation. BUT THAT'S GONE NOW ISN'T IT. I personally thought that he survived and ended up in a new civilization, one like ours, but the fact that she actually makes that canon just meh's it up for me. Well alright. That's it.
btw. look out for a Japan week. Full of NSFH movie trailers/images/videos posted by David and me. Gotta coordinate with Daveeed though. So David, drop me a line dawg.
