Symbolism and themes are difficult to infer in a text, but understanding these literary elements makes the book more interesting and entertaining for the reader. Symbolism is defined using a concrete word, object, color, picture, name and so forth to strand for a name, abstract idea, image, or event. For example a heart could stand for love and an American flag as freedom or patriotism. Theme could be defined as a meaning moral or main …showed first 75 words of 849 total…

…showed last 75 words of 849 total…interesting and entertaining for the reader. As you can tell there is a lot of symbolism and themes in "The Giver" with all the hidden meanings of the names and the life long lessons that it shares with you. But my all time favorite part of the book was the part at the end where Jonas and Gabriel ............. Well I guess you will have to read it to find out what I am talking about.