What Is The Use Of Language In The Giver

Despite the community’s emphasis on precise language, language is often used as a tool for social control in The Giver. The community in The Giver is very strict about the type of language they use as to not over emphasise the actual meaning that they are trying to proclaim. Language is also a way that the elders control the community to ensure that they do not get out of hand so that no one is offended or hurt. Some of those words are Elders, Ceremony of Twelve, and Assignment. The word Elders is a word that is used to describe the position of high authority in the community. They are the government of the community, they are the leaders who run the community. The meaning of an Elder in our world is an old person who is supposedly

There are doctors, lawyers, laborers, and even teachers. In the world of The Giver though people cannot choose the job that they would like to do. They are assigned, instead of calling them jobs the community calls them assignments. In our world, however, we are able to choose the job that we would like to do with the knowledge that we can change it at any time. In The Giver if a person does not like the job that the community assigned to them, then they can request to leave. If they request that then they can apply elsewhere. In our world citizens can switch jobs at any time, head back to school and become certified to start a new career. In the community there is a group of high community officials called Elders. The Elders are in charge of choosing the assignments for all of the new turned twelves. The Elders of the community are supposedly the wisest of the adults in the community, that is why they are in charge of assigning the new twelves their assignments. In our world, we start our jobs at the earliest age of eighteen, but in this community people will receive their job at the young age of twelve which in in our world seems a little young and strange because they will still go to school and during the free time that they had as kids will now be aimed towards their training time. It also prevents people from having too much freedom and so it does not sound like the dirty truth that they are really being forced to do a job even if they do not want to so, the community says that people need to fulfill their assignments so that that the community can sustain