Emotions In 'The Giver'

Feelings and emotions are an important feature for how a person acts and behaves. They impact greatly on their personality and how they react. Emotions can help motivate a person or cause them to become cautious, create and recognize attachments, and give them compassion to protect themselves and others. They are the connections that give a person their individuality and independence. How a person feels about something can affect what do about it. If it is a good feeling like confidence, they would be encouraged to do the activity they have pride in. A bad feeling would usually be the opposite, for an example; fear. If a person is afraid of something like pain, they would be careful to not get hurt. In some cases, fear could also motivate a person to conquer that fear. Fear is a natural reflex everyone has to protect themselves. If everyone is fearless, they would be reckless and would not be alerted of threats. In Jonas’ community, they are only aware of danger because they are told to avoid it. When they get hurt, they
In the book, Jonas questions his relationship with his parents. When he asked them “‘Do you love me?’ There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then Father gave a little chuckle. ‘Jonas. You, of all people. Precision of language, please!’ ‘What do you mean?’ Jonas asked. Amusement was not at all what he had anticipated. ‘Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it has become almost obsolete,’ his mother explained carefully. Jonas stared at them. Meaningless? He had never before felt anything as meaningful as the memory.” (128), his parents said that the word love has become meaningless and that it is like a joke. Since everyone knows nothing, if someone dies; then they are replaced with the next newchild. If someone wants a spouse, they are just given a stranger. No one truly cares for one another and would kill someone; not knowing it is