The Giver Language Analysis

In the Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas lives in a community where language is very powerful. Certain work choices affect an influence on how the community acts and reacts to certain events and situations, like release and love. Jonas leaves because of all the different things/words that they community. The language that the community uses is very powerful in a bad way.
Precision of Language is used alot in Jonas’s community because they can get punished by using the wrong words. “Asher did it when he was young, adversary , agree in his juice and crackers at snack time, he one they said “smack” instead of “snack” as he stood waiting in line for the morning treat.” “ the discipline wand , in the hands of the child care worker, whistled as it came down across Asher's hand.” After Jonas receives his job and was looking over his rules, he saw that he could lie which made him gasp because no one could lie in the community. This …show more content…
In the community Love is a useless work and you're almost banned from saying it. A reason you're banned from using it is because it is feelings which aren't really allowed in the community. Release is also a huge word because it means good bye from the world in which they live in. It can also be good because it means you have had a good life and is being celebrated. My final reason why the community uses the power of language in a bad way .is because it makes the receivers want to leave is because they have all the love and emotions but the word choices in this community make emotions seem bad. They left because the community was telling everyone lies so all the receivers choose different fates, Rosemary choses to be released and killed and have her memories come to the community that way but Jonas, escapes and went to elsewhere so everybody got the memories that he had been given over the one