1. Summer Reading Project Gathering Blue Taylor Smith #18

2. Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry, allows the reader to experience the pain of having a dead mother, but having an living father. In the beginning, Kira’s mother was dead for four days. So, Kira decided to leave the village after she found out that they are going to kick her out. Kira had to go the Council of Guardians. This meant that she would die or live. Jamison showed her the place where she would stay. She wants to go see Matt. Kira goes to see Matt aka Mattie, but she didn’t know that he was fighting. Kira finds out that Jamison is killing people. She also learns that there aren’t any beast. In the end, Kira finds out that her dad is really alive.

3. Summary Gathering Blue, by Lois Lowry, allows the reader to experience the pain of having a dead mother, but having an living father. In the beginning, Kira’s mother was dead for four days. So, Kira decided to leave the village after she found out that they are going to kick her out. Kira had to go the Council of Guardians. This meant that she would die or live. Jamison showed her the place where she would stay. She wants to go see Matt. Kira goes to see Matt aka Mattie, but she didn’t know that he was fighting. Kira finds out that Jamison is killing people. She also learns that there aren’t any beast. In the end, Kira finds out that her dad is really alive.

4. Setting The setting is in a fantasy realistic village.

5. Protagonist Kira is the protagonist in the story.

6. Antagonist The antagonist are Kira and Jamison.

7. Conflict The conflict is Man vs Man and Man vs. Self.

8. P. O. V. 3th person limited is the p.o.v.

9. Climax She finds out that her dad isn’t dead.

10. Resolution Kira is surprise that Jamison is killing people.

11. Theme Sometimes somethings aren’t what they seem.

12. Why is it called Gathering Blue? The word gathering means getting all color dyes for singer ‘s robe. The word blue means the colors that she wove in the robe.