The Authors Purpose
Lois Lowry said on her biography on her website this about the trilogy including The Giver"Though they are broader in scope than my earlier books, they nonetheless speak to the same concern: the vital need of people to be aware of their interdependence, not only with each other, but with the world and its environment." So it appears that the point in her writing the trilogy is to be aware of the environment and their independence as well as others. Lois also stated in her biography that most of her books appear to have one common theme: "My books have varied in content and style. Yet it seems that all of them deal, essentially, with the same general theme: the importance of human connections."
I don't really see Lois Lowry connecting the book to her life. The only incident I can think of is one of her Sons died in the cockpit of a warplane. In the book their was an incident were the community had been warned to take cover inside of protected shelter and Jonas saw a trainer jet fly over the community dangerously low. Possibly another connection could be a memory that Jonas received from The Giver, a memory of War. The memory included a scene where the character sees men die in front of them while on the battlefield. Maybe Lois painfully imagined what this appeared to be what his comrades saw when her Son had passed away on the battlefield. She could very well have used the community as a way to show the reader a possible world without conflict which she heavily disagreed with after she recieved the news of her sons passing. Yet in other books, Lois make connections to family situations such as, A Summer to Die, which emphasized on her sisters early death which had affected her family harshly.
I don't really see Lois Lowry connecting the book to her life. The only incident I can think of is one of her Sons died in the cockpit of a warplane. In the book their was an incident were the community had been warned to take cover inside of protected shelter and Jonas saw a trainer jet fly over the community dangerously low. Possibly another connection could be a memory that Jonas received from The Giver, a memory of War. The memory included a scene where the character sees men die in front of them while on the battlefield. Maybe Lois painfully imagined what this appeared to be what his comrades saw when her Son had passed away on the battlefield. She could very well have used the community as a way to show the reader a possible world without conflict which she heavily disagreed with after she recieved the news of her sons passing. Yet in other books, Lois make connections to family situations such as, A Summer to Die, which emphasized on her sisters early death which had affected her family harshly.