The Giver Language Analysis

Accordingly, in The Giver, the familial gatherings held every morning and night become meaningful. They are one of the important community’s rituals in which parents can have a segment of time to exchange conversations with their children. Through these conversations, parents can comprehend what the child has been experiencing from feelings, dreams and thoughts. Also, during these gatherings, they are able to teach the children and direct their orientations toward the society’s norms. When Jonas asked his parents if they ‘love’ him, he received a scolding about language precision. This kind of affiliation is prohibited in the society. In an extended manner, even the language that expresses such affiliation is limited and excluded. However, word like ‘love’ is replaced by different expressions
That is, if the individual is left to freely choose a language to express his ideas and feelings, he will be able to generate contradicting perceptions toward power structures. Thus, the acquisition of correct and precise language presented by the parents becomes significant. According to Jonas’s mother, the community: “can’t function smoothly if people don’t use precise language” (Lowry 160). This precision of language is inscribed as one of the main instructions given in the educational system stressed between the family and school. Children at the age of three are taught by their parents about the good use of language and later it is taken as a definite course at school. It was highly shown when Jonas in the age of four was rebuked by his parents for using the word “I’m starving” instead of hungry, immediately: “he had been taken aside for a brief private lesson in language precision” (70).Hence, the parents share no ‘love’ with their given children, except of being educators to accentuate upon following the rules of the state like the precision of