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The Launguage of the The Giver
Summary: Examines The Giver, by Lois Lowry. Details how Lowry creates a community where everything is perfect. Explores the issues of choice and free will.
People today would not say "I left my comfort object at home" it would seem strange and not even the most proper societies say words like that. Also when a child is about to be born people don't say "your going to have a newchild" they say "your going to have a baby", it just seems to be the way we would respond because in our society. We have such familiarized words and slag nobody would want to say newchild. "My family unit just got a new TV"! Would not be the way we would talk about our families because when you think about family,you see a home and parents with kids but "family unit" is so scientific, so cold to use it makes the community seem like its robotic. Birthmother is another terms the community uses that seems so cold and void of care, personally I...
This section contains 962 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) |