{"id":1583,"date":"2014-12-13T10:07:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-13T18:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/?p=1583"},"modified":"2014-12-13T10:07:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T18:07:45","slug":"love-in-the-giver-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/2014\/12\/13\/love-in-the-giver-10\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Love&#8221; in The Giver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think \u201cLove\u201d means in Jonas\u2019 community? I predict that Love could be such a powerful word that it\u2019s completely useless. I think this because in Chapter 16, after Jonas\u2019 training, he returns home asking his father,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo you love me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His father replies with a chuckle and says that he needs to be more <em>precise<\/em> in language, preferably as, \u201cDo you enjoy me,\u201d or \u201cDo you appreciate me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His father probably told him to correct himself because he doesn\u2019t feel, or know what love really means. Love connects to enjoy and appreciate, they both mean \u201cDo you like me?\u201d though love is more of an emotion.<\/p>\n<p>Love is that word that is so strong, emotional, and sometimes painful, like when a loss of a \u201cloved one\u201d as in our world. I think that\u2019s why they created Sameness, and a match (a spouse), so that when an elder from that Family Unit is released, the others don\u2019t feel depressed that a \u201cloved\u201d one has been lost into a <em>\u201chappy\u201d<\/em> place. They don\u2019t want people do love each other, so they take pills to lose the feeling of <em>love. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do you think Love means?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think \u201cLove\u201d means in Jonas\u2019 community? I predict that Love could be such a powerful word that it\u2019s completely useless. I think this because in Chapter 16, after Jonas\u2019 training, he returns home asking his father, \u201cDo you love me?\u201d His father replies with a chuckle and says that he needs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2345,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1583"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1598,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1583\/revisions\/1598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/lanawayk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}