Synonyms In The Giver

In the community in The Giver, they use synonyms to distort or conceal the literal words but they mean the same thing as the words used in the real world. Some of the words The Giver uses to conceal or distort literal meanings are release, new child, Stirrings, birth mothers, the Committee of Elders, elders and nurturers. These words are all used everyday in the community. These words are all just synonyms of words we use in the everyday lives of people of the real world. The Giver gives us a new version and a knew idea of each of these words that make these words sound different from the everyday words used in the real world. One of the used words in The Giver is the word release. Release is kind of another word for expulsion. To be released from the community, means to not be part of the community anymore after an incident. If you are released from the community, you are not wanted back to the community. It is almost as if you do something wrong, instead of a certain amount of time in prison, you are released as a punishment. Releasement could inflict a great amount of humiliation upon a human being. Another word the community in The Giver is new child. A new child in the community is another word for a new born baby. A new born baby in real life usually is born under a mother and stays with that mom and usually stays with the family

Stirrings in The Giver are just the same as puberty in the lives of people of the real world. The difference between stirrings and puberty is that for stirrings, you take a pill to ensure that you don’t have your stirrings again. In puberty, you just let it happen and you grow older and more mature throughout the process. In the real world, puberty is good, a sign that you are growing up. In the community, it is not good and it needs to be stopped with pills. These pills stop the stirrings so one does not go through them more than