6. Style

The Giver

By: Lois Lowry

In the the book 'The Giver' I think it best resembles imagery. Imagery is when the author uses words and phrases that appeals to our different senses.

     When Jonas is playing catch with Asher using the apple he notices a change as they are throwing it. This is a dramatic point in the story because this change is 'un-natural' in the world where Jonas lives. He nor anyone should be able to notice colours, so when Jonas sees the colour 'red' he doesn't know how to react or what to call this.

"Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic(24,Chapter 3).

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"No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals.(20,Chapter 3)"

When Jonas descibes the apples as 'nondescript' we can tell something might be bothering him, he is overlooking the change because as mentioned, it's rude to 'call attention' to things that are 'unsettling or different about inividules'.