The Giver Word Analysis

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The Giver uses very formal words that might be strange in our life. The words are words that is not what maybe an American or someone else would use a whole lot of times. We put a lot of slang into our words. They have a lot of different words, but they are all still words. So let’s start off with some of the strange words that they might use in the community. One of the first words in The Giver birthmother. Most people use the word birth mother still to this day, but most of us people use the word biological mother meaning your mom of birth. But in the community they use it as a birth mother. It means the same thing, but just in a different way. A birthmother in The Giver is important because that is where the kids come from. Meaning

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