There are many strange and confusing words with unusual and meanings when it comes to the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. A few of the words are comfort object, newchild, nurture, but there are many, many more. In their society these word are very familiar to the them and their community. These words are a part of their everyday life. They learn these words at a young age just like people learn words in present day. When a baby it is still very young, is little it is given a object with an animal name. Nobody in the community knows exactly what the animal is because nobody was around when those animals were real. Lily’s was a elephant. Jonas’s was a bear, and Gabriel 's is a hippo. This stuffed object is called there comfort object. They keep their comfort object with them. In the present day most young kids have a comfort object that they sleep with and they get them taken away when they don’t need them any more, or don’t want them. In The Giver they sleep with the stuffed object every night until they are eight years old. When the children are eight there comfort object is recycled and given to the new newchildren of the following year. A newchild is a newly born child. The newchildren are taken care of by the Nurtures.The stay at the Nurturing center …show more content…
The Nurtures take care of the newchildren. They play with them. They keep feed them, and they keep track of how much they have grown and progressed to see if they can participate in the December Ceremony. Jonas’s father is a Nurturer in the book The Giver. Nurtures only work with the newchildren during the day. At night, while the Nurtures go home to their family unit the night-crew watches over the newchildren. The night-crew takes care of the newchildren as the sleep. The night-crew is one of the jobs people are given when people lack interest, skill, and insight. There job is not that hard to do. The night-crew is know as a “lesser” job in the