The Giver, Gathering Blue, and Messenger are a series of books all written by Lois Lowry. I think that these books all had one main thing in common and that is that they all are making one thing the best they can while in the process having many other things get worse.

All three books have their own way of doing this; for instance, in The Giver the higher class of people were killing other people so their town could be “perfect.” In Gathering Blue, still the higher class, were torturing and killing people to use special people’s powers. Finally, in Messenger people were changing who they are (mainly the good things about them) to get something they want.

In the end most of the people in the stories aren’t thinking about the consequences of