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The Giver Love Analysis

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In The Giver, it teaches us about how love is very essential to life. For example, in Jonas’ community, love if forbidden and forgotten, but Jonas and the Giver prove to us over and over how crucial love is. The Giver demonstrates love when he declares, “‘ You can understand, then, that that’s what I felt for Rosemary...I loved her’” (133). Jonas and the Giver shared memories of family and loved ones. Jonas understand the true meaning of love and happiness. When he asks his parents ‘“Do you love me?’” (121) they reply pay saying the word love is obsolete and that they enjoy him. Jonas realizes at that moment that his family, doesn’t seem like a real family at all. Jonas later realizes he felt love for his best friends Asher and Fiona, and also

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