Figurative Language In The Giver

Lois Lowry, the author of the speculative fiction The Giver, warns us of the dangers of taking away personal freedom by controlling everything, even the weather and environment, in this dystopian and somewhat utopic world that this novel is set in shows us how important emotions and free choice are. Using jargon, visual imagery and figurative language in The Giver Lowry to name a few tricks to show and tell us about dystopias and utopian elements in speculative fiction The Giver.

One of the many dystopian elements is the fact that they don’t seek diversity, this is vital to people's differences (that is accepted) and helps us to belong and form relationships, in The Giver everyone gets the same thing for their birthday, they wear the same

In The Giver it is impossible to feel emotions, see colour or be your person. Emotions are quickly silenced as well, they are not acknowledged like on page 16 “She held up a clenched fist” Lily held up a clenched fist to symbolize her anger about a young boy pushing in front of her in line, after she told her family about her anger her father quickly dismissed her anger and convinced her that he did not know what he was doing and made her apologise, the young boy could’ve known what he was doing pushing in front of Lily, the father knows his job is not to let his children express themselves or feel emotions so he just shuts them down so that they feel the same way as everybody else. People in the society of The Giver must abstain from falling in love and when people start to develop sexual desires they are forced onto hormone blockers so that they can not fall in love with somebody and start a family and genuinely love a person. Lowry warns us to not limit our emotions or others' emotions and to instead notice them and not try to suppress them and let them build up, she tells us that it is ok to love other people and have