Lois Lowry How Everything Turns Away Analysis

In my opinion, “How Everything Turns Away” was a speech about overcoming. Lois Lowry was discouraged at first, but later she overcame. In the beginning, she sets the scene for her readers describing her vacations. She explains to the readers that she has been challenged with the question, “How do we know what questions to ask?”. While on her vacation she ponders on the question and even ask her friends for their opinion. But, she still had no clear answer.
After reading a critique about her book “The Giver”, she had an epiphany. She asked herself the challenging question once more and realized, we actually don’t know what questions to ask. We have no clue. Then she wanted to know, but why not, and her answer was “because we turn away”. Loius Lowry states that as humans we turn away from things that are hard to handle, sad, and uncomfortable.
Later in the speech she begins telling the audience about her son and his pet rabbit. The eight-year-old let his rabbit out to play then suddenly, a dog came by, grabbed the rabbit by its neck and ran off. But luckily, the little boy rescued the rabbit from the …show more content…
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