Comfort Objects In The Giver

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Comfort Object, Stirrings, and Release… what precise words and all have weird and deep meanings. The Giver talks a lot about all these words, and all of them have strange meanings. When people think of Stirring for instance, they probably think of stirring batter for a cake. With the people in the Giver, they define it as a completely different word that no one would ever guess. In the Giver things are very different, everything is tried to be kept the same way. They are too afraid of change and these words are just the beginning of all the words that they use in differently than everyday normal people. Comfort Object, such an absurd word for such a nice thing. The true meaning of a Comfort Object is a stuffed animal; or a blanket/toy that people snuggle with at night. They relinquish the object around the age of eight, so the object does not stay with them forever. They are very strict on there rules and hate when people break them. If people don't follow the rule, they will be chastised. In the Giver, they do not know what animals are; and they don't have any animals at all. The Giver describes it as an object that they would usually keep with during the night. They …show more content…

Not even close to the meaning in this book. The meaning of Stirrings is puppetry, it is a sign of growing up and maturing. What we were just baking cake, know we are growing up. In the community where Jonas lives they have stirrings when the people are around twelve years of age. The stirrings occur in dreams. The Community has to take a pill for this Stirrings to stop or go away. This is terrible, these people never get to have feelings of love or emotion. It is too dangerous for them and they control it. Love is like a fire, so they put it away with every other emotion that comes with it. The community is literally living under a box and is to afraid, so they made everything the

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