The Giver By Lois Lowry - 962 Words

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver the community feel free but they are restricted by the rules of this society. Their individuality has been taken away along with their emotions, precision of language has taken control and the rules have brainwashed the community. Is it worth living in a society with rules and restrictions like these. Throughout The Giver, Lowry attempts to awaken each and every reader to the dangers that exist when people opt for conformity over individuality and for unexamined security over freedom. At one time in the past, the people who inhabited Jonas community intended to create a perfect society. They thought that by protecting the citizens from making wrong choices (by removing their choice), the community would be†¦show more content†¦For example, when Jonas asks his parents if they love him, his mother scolds him for using imprecise language. She says that love is a very generalized word, so meaningless that it s become almost obsolete. To Jonas, however, love is a very real feeling. The community that Lowry creates in The Giver stresses precision of language. Precise language, however, in this community, is not precise at all but rather is a language in which the meanings of words are intentionally unclear. For example, each family unit participates in the telling of feelings every evening. This sharing is ironic because the people don t have any feelings. They gave up their feelings when they chose Sameness. Another word that is ironic and not precise is Nurturer. Jonas father, a Nurturer, is supposed to be a caretaker of infants. He does care for infants, but he also kills them. One of the reasons why precise language is so very important to the community is that it ensures that nobody ever publicly lies, although at one point Jonas finally realizes that the whole community is a lie. In this way, the people can be controlled. As Jonas mother tells him when he asks her if she loves him, . . . our community can t function smoothly if people don t use precise language. The use of precise language in Jonas community has contributed to the creation of a non-human society, the people function as robots and have no feelings. Lowry stresses theShow MoreRelatedThe Giver by Lois Lowry869 Words   |  3 Pagesbeing ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past. In the book The Giver, our society and Jonas’s differ in terms of the family units. On page 8, Jonas’s motherRead MoreThe Giver By Lois Lowry940 Words   |  4 PagesLois Lowry’s 1993 young adult novel â€Å"The Giver† captured audiences worldwide with its fascinating characters and dystopian society. 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