Do you like your life being controlled? How would you feel if you found out what that your whole life has been a lie and you haven’t been living it to the fullest, I know I would do something to make a change. When you figure out that the restrictions around you have more behind them then it seems that should be a time to take action and make a difference that could be for the better. In the Newbery Award-winning novel, “The Giver”, by Lois Lowry, the lifestyle of the Community is affected by the restrictions set upon them but more importantly how the effects of using precise language, the various rituals, and the many grips of control on the people of the Community that determine their lifestyle. “Precision of Language” is a common term
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In the morning everyone in the family is required to tell their dreams, Jonas feeling uneasy about his says, “... it was not only right but necessary to tell all of a dream”(Lowry 45). The daily rituals, just activities that you participate in with your family right, well I believe it’s more than that, how or why you ask, well it’s simple, the daily rituals are just an excuse to check in with the members of the Community about how they’re feeling. A good example of this is this literally every morning and evening especially with this one Jonas wants to express how he feels but his parents eventually tell him that no this is what you’re really feeling. Taking pills for the stirrings is also a kind of daily ritual too but all they’re used for is getting rid of emotions and after Jonas realizes it he’s starting liking the emotions, being enlightened through the memories from the Giver Jonas understands what's really happening, “Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away,“ (Lowry 162). Taking the various pills given is also just another daily ritual that has more going on behind the scenes than it seems, all these pills do is suppress the many different emotions that people have so now they’re only left …show more content…
The early people of the Community felt there was something wrong with society but to fix it they had to be willing to give some things up, the giver explains to Jonas, “We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others,” (Lowry 120). Control is a big thing in “The Giver” I’ve been talking about the topic my whole essay, every system, every activity, everything in the Community is disguised as a way to control the people who live there. Obviously, there was some kind of war or fallout that made the precursors of the Community decide to take away people’s free will because it only makes sense that this situation is occurring because people couldn’t be trusted to make the right decisions. The Community also converted everyone to sameness, this means that there’s no discrimination or envy so that sounds good right but sometimes good intentions aren’t always as good as they should be, Jonas feels sameness has gone too far so he complains, “I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic or a red one,”(Lowry 123). After Jonas learns about all the different colors and becomes enlightened to what is going on and what’s happening in the world around him he starts to become more anxious to make his own decisions and break away from the control
In the morning everyone in the family is required to tell their dreams, Jonas feeling uneasy about his says, “... it was not only right but necessary to tell all of a dream”(Lowry 45). The daily rituals, just activities that you participate in with your family right, well I believe it’s more than that, how or why you ask, well it’s simple, the daily rituals are just an excuse to check in with the members of the Community about how they’re feeling. A good example of this is this literally every morning and evening especially with this one Jonas wants to express how he feels but his parents eventually tell him that no this is what you’re really feeling. Taking pills for the stirrings is also a kind of daily ritual too but all they’re used for is getting rid of emotions and after Jonas realizes it he’s starting liking the emotions, being enlightened through the memories from the Giver Jonas understands what's really happening, “Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away,“ (Lowry 162). Taking the various pills given is also just another daily ritual that has more going on behind the scenes than it seems, all these pills do is suppress the many different emotions that people have so now they’re only left …show more content…
The early people of the Community felt there was something wrong with society but to fix it they had to be willing to give some things up, the giver explains to Jonas, “We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others,” (Lowry 120). Control is a big thing in “The Giver” I’ve been talking about the topic my whole essay, every system, every activity, everything in the Community is disguised as a way to control the people who live there. Obviously, there was some kind of war or fallout that made the precursors of the Community decide to take away people’s free will because it only makes sense that this situation is occurring because people couldn’t be trusted to make the right decisions. The Community also converted everyone to sameness, this means that there’s no discrimination or envy so that sounds good right but sometimes good intentions aren’t always as good as they should be, Jonas feels sameness has gone too far so he complains, “I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic or a red one,”(Lowry 123). After Jonas learns about all the different colors and becomes enlightened to what is going on and what’s happening in the world around him he starts to become more anxious to make his own decisions and break away from the control