The Giver Rhetorical Analysis Essay
Becky Wright
93014
English
P3rd
Author, Lois Lowry, in her novel The Giver she describes a community that has convert to “sameness” and that has also eliminated pain. Lowry’s purpose was to indicate the value of the relationship between pain and pleasure; also how important memories are. She creates a rebellious tone in order to recommend to her readers of the idea of, “If you feel something is terribly wrong, go beyond to fix it.”
Lowry moves to her novel by acknowledging the fact that the Elders (the government) has taken total control over the community; no one makes there own decisions. She creates a heartbreaking tone, and appeals to Jonas’ furious emotion when Jonas establish, “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up and decide things!” The author uses
Jonas’ frustration to imply to his readers that we should make our own choice, that we require some freedom, and that we should be different from eachother. The author basically defines humanity as emotions (pain and pleasure) colors, and individuality; the basic building blocks of life. Jonas is so unpleased with the idea of his community being under the sympation of sameness, he “had made a choice, he made the wrong one–” Lowry illustrates a idea to her readers, she displays “freethinking” from this paraphrase. She also releases the idea of rebelness.
Once Jonas became The Receiver of the memories, he compared his community now to the memories. He concluded that his way of living now is so off balance, that his Elders are obsessed with “right choices” when life should actually have a healthy balance of right and wrong choices, in which leading to having pain and pleasure. When I had a consultation with my friend, I had questioned her, “If someone has taken total control over your life, how would you feel about it?”
She answered, “At first I would probably think that is how its suppose to be, but as I would get older I would probably start to
93014
English
P3rd
Author, Lois Lowry, in her novel The Giver she describes a community that has convert to “sameness” and that has also eliminated pain. Lowry’s purpose was to indicate the value of the relationship between pain and pleasure; also how important memories are. She creates a rebellious tone in order to recommend to her readers of the idea of, “If you feel something is terribly wrong, go beyond to fix it.”
Lowry moves to her novel by acknowledging the fact that the Elders (the government) has taken total control over the community; no one makes there own decisions. She creates a heartbreaking tone, and appeals to Jonas’ furious emotion when Jonas establish, “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up and decide things!” The author uses
Jonas’ frustration to imply to his readers that we should make our own choice, that we require some freedom, and that we should be different from eachother. The author basically defines humanity as emotions (pain and pleasure) colors, and individuality; the basic building blocks of life. Jonas is so unpleased with the idea of his community being under the sympation of sameness, he “had made a choice, he made the wrong one–” Lowry illustrates a idea to her readers, she displays “freethinking” from this paraphrase. She also releases the idea of rebelness.
Once Jonas became The Receiver of the memories, he compared his community now to the memories. He concluded that his way of living now is so off balance, that his Elders are obsessed with “right choices” when life should actually have a healthy balance of right and wrong choices, in which leading to having pain and pleasure. When I had a consultation with my friend, I had questioned her, “If someone has taken total control over your life, how would you feel about it?”
She answered, “At first I would probably think that is how its suppose to be, but as I would get older I would probably start to