Lois Lowry's book, The Giver, illustrates a futuristic society in which a strict law is enforced and no citizen thinks of going against this law . There is no deviation from what is considered normal. A big contribution to creating their perfect society is keeping the public ignorant of what is happening around them. Lowry helps create this perfect world by creating euphemisms in his everyday speech whose main purpose is to prevent the audience from completely understanding the whole truth. Not only did euphemisms play a large role in the book, but also the author's personal experiences and events that occurred around the same time that the book was written helped shape the book into what it became. it is today. In 1994, Lowry began his Newbery Medal acceptance speech by explaining that the origins of his book came from his memories of his childhood. During the speech, Lowry explains that when she was eleven years old, she went to Japan with her family where they lived in a small, gated American community in the middle of Japan. She then explains that later in her life, her mother told her that the reason they didn't take advantage of the opportunity to live in a real Japanese community and learn from the culture around them was because the American culture in which they lived was familiar and safe (Telgen 169). Lowry based the community she talks about in her book on her own community in Japan. The strict rules and "sameness" enforced in Jonas' community are directly related to the safe environment Lowry grew up in, which blocked out anything different from what they knew. Lowry continues to explain his experiences living in his American community in Japan. speaking of the countless times...... middle of paper ......d were explained by Jonas when he said: “[t]he liberation of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for a life well and fully lived; and the release of a new child, which always brought a sense of what we might have done” (Lowry 7). Not only were people released because they had become too old or babies released because they were not strong enough to contribute to the goal of identity, but criminals were also released for not have followed the rules set by the community. Lilly explains this when she says, "[t]he rules say if there's a third transgression, he just has to be released" (Lowry 9). Throughout The Giver, Lowry creates strict rules that the community must follow in order to achieve a level of "sameness." These rules and similes Lowry uses symbolize a futuristic utopia that Lowry strives to create by using euphemisms to cover up things that would normally be upsetting..