Today's Daily Literature Quote is…

Quote Originally Posted by The Giver by Lois Lowry
“He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.”
These are the final lines of the classic story The Giver. Overall it's a very interesting story but these lines themselves are impactful because of the fact that it reflects on the changes that can be made once a person has left and how similar where they left is to where they are going. Never again in the Giver's four book series do we see Jonas's home, except for a brief glimpse at it in The Son but given it's the same setting as when Jonas is there, that doesn't really count. We never see what happened to Jonas's home and it's interesting to see how it's very possible the place changed, just as Jonas and The Giver wanted, but when Jonas receives a chance to that change, he refuses, as if he believes change was never possible for that place. It's quite the fascinating concept especially if you've read the book.