Gathering Blue is written by Lois Lowry and is about a recently orphaned girl named Kira

by omeier (student)

Olivia Meier

English

Gathering Blue Book Report

Gathering Blue is written by Lois Lowry and is about a recently orphaned girl named Kira who was born with a twisted leg. She lives in a world where weak or disabled people are put to death so she herself lives in constant fear of that happening to her. Kira doesn’t know what the future holds for her until the very powerful Council of Guardians spare her life. She is now holding a job as a very gifted weaver and is given a task that no other member of the community can do. As her talent and job keep her alive she soon realizes she is surrounded by mysteries and secrets that she has to unravel.

Kira, the main character in the book, is definitely an Aries. Like those born under the sign of Aries, she is brave, driven, talented and loyal. What, you don’t believe it? Read more to find out why.

Kira is very brave because she is an orphan. At the very beginning of the book her mother passed away from an illness. You also find out at the beginning that her father was supposedly taken away and killed by wild beasts and never knew that Kira was even born. So Kira is without a mother or father at a very young age and is supposed to fend for herself. After her mother’s death she didn’t have a family to look after her, she also didn’t have any home. The cott she had shared with her mother had been burned. The small structure, the only home that Kira had ever known was burned to the ground and now Kira was homeless. Kira is very brave because she was a young orphaned girl with a twisted leg and without any family or home, yet she survived and carried on.

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Another reason why I think Kira fits the sign of Aries is because she is driven. In the story, after you have a death in the family your cott is always burned to the ground. You are then supposed to rebuild it. When Kira returned to rebuild her little cott on her piece of land a woman named Vandara said she could not build here. Vandara was a woman that scared everybody in the village and for that she was well known and respected. Vandara was very tall and muscular she also had a scar that marked her chin and continued down her neck to one of her broad shoulders. It was said that she had gotten that scar from a long ago battle with a creature living in the forest. When Kira heard she was not allowed to rebuild on her land she stood her ground and said it was her piece of land now because it was her father’s first, then her mother’s and now that her mother has passed away it was hers. Vandara started to get really angry. Kira saw other women coming towards her to see what was going on. Vandara said that they needed the space to build a play pen for the little kids that were in the village. Kira said that was a very good idea but they would have to build it somewhere else. Vandara and a couple other women started to pick up rocks. Kira got very nervous about what could happen to her. She thought about what her mother and father might have done and wanted so Kira found the courage and bravery to defend herself and say no. Finally, all the women went away but Vandara said she would take this conflict to the Council of Guardians. Kira was very driven because even though she was out numbered in this conflict she stood up strong for what she wanted and what was rightfully hers.

I also believe Kira to be an Aries because she is talented and loyal. Kira is very loyal because when she met Jo, the little singer locked up and isolated in a room, she told her she would come back to see her. Even though visiting Jo could cause Kira harm, she chose to go back and see her and keep her word. She went back to see her because she felt bad for her even though she knew it would be a risk for her or she could get in trouble if people saw her visiting Jo. Kira is also very talented weaver. She was given a very hard task that no other member of the community could do or make and she did it.

I think astrology is a fun way to help a person analyze another person’s character and your own character for that matter. It is interesting to think that your character might be based on when you were born. When you read horoscopes that are based on astrology and you read something about your sign, sometimes you can related to that and say yeah, I am like that. If you know a person’s birthdate you can look up their personality characteristics under the astrological sign they fall under. It is fun to find out how they are similar to what the signs represent. Personally, I think it is fun to use astrological signs to analyze a person’s character, but I don’t think I can take it too seriously.