Chapters 21-23 Flags

While I read chapters 21-23, I made an prediction: the village that Christopher went to had some sort of relation with the village Kira lives in. Christopher's village used to be inside Kira's village, but there were some rebels, so they broke up.
I also made a question, "Why didn't Christopher tell Kira right away who he was, or why he didn't just keep it as a secret anyways?" Then I found out that Christopher had more things to talk about with Kira and that he had to tell Kira because he loved her too much.

Chapters 17-20 Flags

When I read chapters 17-20, I inferred that Matt loved Kira so, so, so much than anyone in the whole world because he abandoned his family to go miles and miles away to get her the color she longed for.
I also made a connection to the real world: just as Matt risked his life to get something Kira wanted, parents tries their best to do anything to do for their children. They're all sweet ways of showing affection and care, and we shouldn't take advantage of it and appreciate it.

Chapters 21-23 (END)

When the songs finally ended, Kira still felt the sorrow from being unable to thread freely. She walked miserably up to her room, but soon heard a cheerful voice from Matt: "IT'S HERE! THE BIG GIFTIE!" Apparently, there had been a bigger gift from Matt, and it was delivered by a blind man. He had walked all the way to the village, and he had woad in his hands, the plant that makes the color blue.
Kira fed him and took care of the blind man, and he had been so secretive the whole day of who he is and where he came from. Finally, he told Kira who he was at night.
Christopher, the man who Kira should call Father.
Kira, at first, had no idea what to do. Then she told him to stay here, where it was safe. He would be taken care of and would have nothing to worry about. She also told him about Jamison and how he kept her safe.
Then Christopher said that men knocked him out, and some people not from the village came and healed him. The people had always offered him eyes to lead him, and everyone with a weak spot would be helped. He liked that village, instead of Kira's village were the weak were cast aside. Then he added, "Jamison was there when men knocked me out. He was the one who did."
Kira tried to put these pieces together: Kira, Jo, and Thomas are all artists; they are all orphans; their parents all died; Christopher was almost killed.
When the "artists" are discovered, the parents are killed.
The next day, Christopher leaves town. He told Kira maybe he'd come back one day to see his daughter that he had missed all his life away from her, or maybe Kira would come to see Christopher in his happy village.

Chapters 17-20

In chapters 17-20, Kira had finished the robe and wanted to have a walk with Thomas. They did their little walk to the Fen, where Matt lives, and found out that Matt's mother had thrown rocks at him and he ran away for a "giftie" for his "friend," according to Matt's brother. Of course, since the trial he must have gone is so far away, he wouldn't come back for a while. Then came the time of Gathering, where the Singer sang the old, old songs and they worshipped the Great Object. Before the Singer sang, the Council introduced some people: Thomas, the carver; Kira, the threader; and Jo, the future Singer. As the Singer sang, Kira spotted Matt in the crowd. He had not been in town for almost a week, and he had been very dirty. At lunch break, she greeted Matt very happily and he gave her blue: a color very hard to find to dye threads. Kira thanked Matt for a long while and declared Matt her favorite.

Chapters 14-16 Flags

While I read Gathering Blue, I made a prediction: Jo, Thomas, and Kira were going to do something of rebellion. Jonas in The Giver tried to do something of rebellion because they lived in a world where there wasn't much choices, and this community is where the weak are cast aside, so I thought that Kira and Thomas might do something of rebellion and drag Jo into it.
I made a connection of this with the real world. Some orphans have to stay alone inside a room, and sometimes it's locked. They always feel lonely without a family, and that's what Jo has to go though in Gathering Blue.

Chapters 14-16

In Chapter 14, Kira got ready to go to Annabella's, like usual. She asked a woman named Marlena on her way about Jo. She told Kira that Jo had a beautiful voice. "Nobody teached her [the songs Jo sang]. The songs, they just come," she said. "I heard that them songs was full of knowledges."

Kira, mystified, heads to Annabella's, and on the way, Matt tells her that Annabella had been taken to the Fields, where the dead is placed. She was dead when they dragged her. Kira was about to go to Jamison to tell him, but Matt said he was beside Annabella. She then went to the place she was nurtured. She went to where the singing tyke was. She tried to go in, but it was locked. So she instead whispered into the keyhole that she will come back. She did, later, with Thomas. He had carved a key that opened very door in the apartment. Jo quickly became attached to Kira and cried for her mum. She said she was stuffed with everything "they" taught her, and Kira knew that "they" were Jamison and the Council.
Kira, back at her room, realized that Jo, Thomas, and herself, were artists. They were happy when they made beautiful things, but they were forced and stuffed with the things the Council gave them, not free to be happy with whatever they made.

Chapters 11-13 Flags

While I read chapters 11-13, I predicted something while I read the part Jamison told her not to stray. I knew that Kira's world is not the same as ours, and they must have some way to keep outsiders away. I predicted that Annabella was telling the truth because she's old and wise. There WERE no beasts, but they told that to the villagers to make them not stray past the paths, so that they are away from anything "outside".
When I read the part about Jo, I inferred that she was sad because she didn't know what was happening and being downstairs in a room made it feel like beasts might attack her.