Gathering Blue Character Analysis

Imagine living in a world where the weak are cast aside and you yourself are crippled, but your life is spared by love. Then your mother dies unexpectedly and there is no longer anyone protecting you. What will happen to you now? This is what Kira faced in the novel Gathering Blue written by Lois Lowry. Kira was born with a deformed leg and faces physical challenges because of it. At the beginning of the book, Kira’s mother dies from an unexpected illness, and Kira is attacked by a group of women led by Vandara, a strong woman whose goal is to destroy Kira. Vandara claims that Kira should be taken to the Field and left for the beasts, which may or may not be real. The Council of Guardians then spare Kira’s life and appoint her official threader …show more content…
First, Kira’s thoughts say, “The three of them―the new little Singer that would one day take the chained Singer’s place; Thomas the Carver, who with his meticulous tools wrote the history of the world; and she herself, the one who colored that history― they were the artists who could create the future” (211-212). The artists are one example because there were three and that’s a perfect amount. Their talent’s are different, but all do the same thing. They explain the past, either through song, carvings, or pictures, the present, and the future which the guardians will write for them. Next, Jamison states, “Don’t forget Kira, I saw your father taken by beasts. It was a hideous thing” (128-129). Kira’s dad is another example. Her entire life she thought that her father was killed by beasts because that is what everyone said happened. Later, Kira finds out that the beasts aren’t real, and that her father was not killed by beasts, but was attacked by Jamison and sent to the Field to die. He was found and sparedby another village and was nursed back to health. Finally, a woman claims, “We’re going to use the saplings to build a pen for the tykes,” then Vandara states, “We don’t want you here. You’re worthless, with that leg” (15-16). One last example is Vandara and the women who wanted to …show more content…
First, according to the text, “Now, secret in her hand, the cloth seemed to speak a silent, pulsing message to Kira” (45). Kira’s cloth is just one symbolism that is used in the book and there are many more, like the color blue and the Council Edifice. Her cloth symbolizes a heart because it is pulsing, and a heart pulses. Also, a heart is alive and in a way, the fabric came alive and was trying to tell Kira something. Next, the book states, “She could see some of them in the vast foul-smelling Field of Leaving, huddled beside the ones whose lingering spirits they tended” (2). Gathering Blue starts off in a realistic setting, the Field of leaving, which is like a cemetery. Then the women wanted to put their tykes into a pen to discipline them , which turned the story into fantasy(15-16). After the story is in fantasy, it switches back to realistic at the end because Kira meets Christopher, her father for the first time (192). Third, Matt tells Kira, “I didn’t say she be wanting to! I said they tooken her! She be dead!” (133). Another characteristic of fantasy that was used was a death of a character. Annabella died unexpectedly and she was in the process of teaching Kira how to make the different dyes and what plants go with which color. She was a teacher to Kira, and when Matt

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