See http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/magazine/lois-lowry-the-childrens-author-who-actually-listens-to-children.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 for full article.
I must admit, I've never read The Giver. It's going on my list.
The author of The Giver, Lowry, creates this "magical talent" called "veer" in the novel - "he is able to enter
another person’s consciousness and feel what they feel. That is, Gabriel
battles evil with empathy."
Isn't that stunning? There isn't any violence or hatred or any sort of animosity...instead, he feels what the other person feels.
“The ability to understand other people’s feelings,” Lowry said. “As an
encompassing gift that a kid could have — or a human — that could be the
one that could save the world. If we could all acquire it to the extent
that boy had it, no one would go into a movie theater with a gun.”
To empathy and to books and words and stories and anything and everything that help us develop empathy.
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