The shackles scraping was the noise she had heard. She realizes that the singer had his legs shackled and they had been bleeding. Kira's father wants her to go with him, but she suddenly begins to put everything together. Matt is happy for Kira and tells her many people are broken in the far away village and she could find a husband there. People form a far away village had rescued him just as they had done for many others. Her father was left to die in the burial field. It turns out that Jamison had clubbed and cut up her father to prevent him from getting a position as a council member. He tells her there never were any beasts only cruel men in the community. Kira learns that the blind man is her father. He also sneaks in a blind man who is wearing a blue shirt. He has brought her the secret to making blue thread. The day of the gathering when the singer is to sing Kira hears a scraping sound and so does Thomas. Thomas and Kira begin to become suspicious of what is occuring in their lives. The two sneak into her room and offer little Jo comfort. They learn that a little tyke is locked up in a room.
Unlike others in the community, Matt is kind and friendly and nurtures an injured dog.ĭuring the night Kira and Thomas hear a child's cry. The Fen is an area where the poorest live. Kira has a friend named Matt, a tyke and his dog, who are from the Fen. Kira learns that there is another boy at the place named Thomas who is a gifted Carver. Kira moves into a large nice room where she is assigned the task of repairing the singer's robe. She has remarkable abilities as a weaver so she spared. Kira is brought before the elders and council is appointed for her. Her father was killed by the beasts while on a hunt. She would have been put in the field except her mother's father had some degree of power among the elders. Kira has a foot that drags and has much pain from it.
When she returns to rebuild her cott on her mother's space, another woman with a scar across her face challenges her for the land area. Kira's mother dies and Kira has to sit with her at the field which is the custom way they mourn. The community is somewhat primitive and does not have running water and people live in cotts made out of brambles and sticks. Gathering Blue is the story of a young weaver named Kira who lives in a community. It was my hope that this book would tell me what happened after the escape in The Giver.
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