Comfort Objects In The Giver

Comfort Object, Stirrings, and Release… what precise words and all have weird and deep meanings.  The Giver talks a lot about all these words, and all of them have strange meanings. When people think of Stirring for instance, they probably think of stirring batter for a cake. With the people in the Giver, they define it as a completely different word that no one would ever guess. In the Giver things are very different, everything is tried to be kept the same way.  They are too afraid of change and these words are just the beginning of all the words that they use in differently than everyday normal people.

    Comfort Object, such an absurd word for such a nice thing. The true meaning of a Comfort Object is a stuffed animal; or a blanket/toy that people snuggle with at night. They relinquish the object around the age of eight, so the object does not stay with them forever. They are very strict on there rules and hate when people break them. If people don't follow the rule, they will be chastised.  In the Giver, they do not know what animals are; and they don't have any animals at all.  The Giver describes it as an object that they would usually keep with during the night. They

call it an object; they are blind to the true meaning of it. The community does not even know what it is. All they know is that it's been a rule and has been there for as long as they can remember. The true meaning of this word is nowhere to be found in the Giver.  The only thing there is the rules.

Stirrings not to hard, just another day at the bakery making some cake while stirring the batter.

Not even close to the meaning in this book. The meaning of Stirrings is puppetry, it is a sign of growing up and maturing. What we were just baking cake, know we are growing up. In the community where Jonas lives they have stirrings when the people are around twelve years of age.  The stirrings occur in dreams. The Community has to take a pill for this Stirrings to stop or go away. This is terrible, these people never get to have feelings of love or emotion. It is too dangerous for them and they control it.  Love is like a fire, so they put it away with every other emotion that comes with it. The community is literally living under a box and is to afraid, so they made everything the

same.

Release a word with so much meaning yet so hard to figure out. In the Giver the meaning of Release is complicated, when people get released they have a huge ceremony. They call it the Ceremony of Release. The way the community Releases someone. Is they stick a needle that it filled with liquid poison into a vain. For the baby’s it is there top of there head, the people flinch around a little and then just die. The people in the community do not see this as a bad thing, they see it as another thing in another every day life. In reality release could mean releasing a person from their life or letting them go. It also could mean dying, so the meaning is sort of the same. The main difference is that people can sign up for release in the Giver; people don't just naturally die.

Every word always is concealed in a way.  The Giver uses different and strange words to convey the true meaning of the word. These words are many of the words in the Giver that have a different meaning to people who might be reading the book. Overall, most of the words are just modified and have around the same definition as the people who might be reading the book. Giver or not we all use words in a different way. All of these words talked about could and are used in real life.