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Personifying Nature In 'The Giver'

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1. This song personifies nature. How many different ways has nature been personified in the class reading (The Giver through The Two Towers)? Think of examples that involve more than just trees. Explain your choices.
a. Throughout the class reading, nature has been personified in various ways. For instance, Matty came to personify nature as he navigated, and ultimately healed, Forest at the cost of his own life. Conan also filled this role while he roamed the wilderness and scorned civilization. Lastly, Tolkien illustrated the personification of nature in numerous instances, including through the character Tom Bombadil, who lived as a guardian of the Old Forest and treated the land under his care as his own child.

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Concerning trees specifically, at what point in the class reading have trees themselves screamed “Oppression!”? Provide at least two specific examples from past readings of trees expressing their disgust or anger toward the ignorance of mankind.
a. In Messenger, Forest grew dangerous and hateful towards humans and forbade any to pass through alive until Matty cured it with his life. Additionally, the hobbits experienced the trees’ spite in the Old Forest at the hands of Old Man Willow. The Company again experienced this hatred at Fangorn Forest as the trees killed Saruman’s armies near Helm’s Deep, and the Ents attacked Saruman’s stronghold.

4. Think back to past readings again. At what point in the reading has equality been enforced “by hatchet, axe, and saw”? Further, what is the effect of the use of such imagery? Describe the effect of the metaphor inherent in the hatchet, axe, and saw.
a. This enforcement of equality by threat of violence and death was exhibited firstly in The Giver, where the Community “released” any who failed to abide by the laws set forth. Furthermore, in Anthem, Animal Farm, 1984, anyone who defied the law was tortured into submission. In each of these cases, and in “The Trees,” these laws enforce a warped form of equality, and the imagery of its violent enforcement foreshadows something worse to

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