The Giver Rhetorical Analysis Essay

The process of creating my missing chapter from ‘The Giver’, a chapter titled ‘Truth’. My intention was to provide a clear picture of Jonas's experience as he receives a fresh memory from the Giver by extracting inspiration from Lois Lowry’s dynamic novel, The Giver. A novel that explores the community's lack of freedom to create the ideal society. I employed various language techniques in my writing, such as use of metaphor, simile, personification and onomatopoeia, to arouse a tangible sense of amazement and leave the audience questioning why we are not talking about the beauty of the world. "Truth" was written with the intention of drawing the reader into the magical world of Jonas's recently discovered memory, while also exploring themes of freedom and choice. The intention was to bring the reader along with Jonas on his quest to uncover the …show more content…
Exploring the theme of truth, freedom and beauty, I used a range of techniques to display Jonas’s interaction with his dream. My focus on the second paragraph shifts to the exploration of Jonas’s curiosity about his memory. In the onomatopoeia “he began to feel as if he was shrinking as small as a mouse” conveys the realisation of the tension he felt and how intense Jonas felt when the notes were beginning to enlarge. The purpose of this was to convey the reader's attention, allowing them to see the theme of freedom, perhaps freedom of getting out of this memory. Additionally, the onomatopoeia “Pam” implies what the melody notes can do and the message they wanted to send to Jonas, though he was frightened. Furthermore, the notes could also shape reality, that not everything is seen as it is seen, and that is why the notes were first presented as a calm beautiful memory till which it began a total nightmare, enlarging itself, creating loud noises to reveal the truth to Jonas about life and the mysterious