Examples Of Individuality In The Giver

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the biggest flaw in Jonas’s community is their awful idea of hiding the past from the citizens to create an unreasonable world with no disappointments. They almost never admit that a mistake had been made, and they wiped away memories of the past, like war.

In the book the giver by Lois Lowry, on page 137-145 they use the word love a lot agian and agian. The giver uses it on page 141 he said ¨ You can understand then, that that's what i felt for rosemary… I loved her¨ This is showing the reader that when the giver is telling jonas that he loved her he's really saying that he loves too.

Meg finally realizes that individuality is good. Being your own person is good. Instead of being all the same. Jonas realizes that they had memories before the giver and jonas was born. The authors show the reader the theme of the importance of individuality through the characters’ realizations, the leaders who control society, and the conflict the characters resolve.

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

Imagine living in a world with no individuality. You would have no capability of love, emotion, and imagination. Everyone would be limited to a degree of “sameness”. Parents would not love one another or their children, and you wouldn’t be able to believe what you want to believe simple because you have to believe what has always existed. There would be no opinions, no choices, and no awareness that you were even being limited at all. In her book “The Giver”, Louis Lowry exposes the dangers of individuality in a Utopian Society.

“Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting” (Anne Lamott). The loss of freedom when striving for perfection results in a monotonous and routine way of life. In their search for perfection, the society of The Giver loses their privacy, their sense of love, and their individualism because of an oppressive ruling system. All dystopian societies have one common issue: constant surveillance. This is the most significant issue found in The Giver’s society because it immediately eliminates any chance of privacy.

I think the concept of conformity as it is portrayed in The Giver can very well be paralleled to how our own society makes use of the concept. Culturally, we conform to a certain way of going about things because we have been told that it is the only acceptable way to ensure success or a positive outcome. For example, there is the typical routine of attending school, graduating from primary to tertiary schools, getting into college, graduating from college, finding a job, getting married, having children, and etc. In Cengiz Oznur’s article, “INHUMAN HUMAN NATURE: LOIS LOWRY’S THE GIVER,” he analyzes how our own society has its mechanical ways of living.

You live in a world, where you have right to do almost anything. You have right to express your inner self, but what if you lived in a place where you had no emotions, no memories, no right to experience this nature, what if you were captivated, and you had no right to rebel, to go against such place. Well, such events occurred in Louis Lowry's utopian book called Giver, Jonas who lives in a community of conformity, where individuality isn't expressed. When Jonas gets the job as the Receiver, he then starts to spend time with Giver, was he sees memories, and also learns the dangerous truths of his community.

Through the element of characterization, Jonas’ selflessness is exemplified in the novel, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry. The story takes place in a dystopian society that is stripped away from all emotion, color, music, and love. To restore his crippling society, Jonas, the main character, sets out on a journey into the beyond of his district, but, on his way, is stopped by a young child, named Gabriel, who is to be killed the next morning because of his inadequate development. To prevent this trauma from occurring, Jonas takes the boy with him as he continues on with his quest. To begin, Jonas suffers from hypothermia and starvation, due to the extreme conditions of his pursuit.

Imagine having someone make all of your choices for you and not getting a say so about

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared,” Lois Lowry wrote in the book The Giver (154). The characters in this book live in a futuristic community that has eliminated everything causing suffering. For example, there are strict rules governing rudeness, so the community does not allow society members to ask any question that will make anyone feel different. The characters do not feel emotions, or love, so they never feel hurt or betrayed. Even little everyday maladies such as smashing a finger in a door do not cause the characters any torment, being they have a remedy called Relief of Pain accessible to them all the time. Also, they do not bear the haunting memories of the

“Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of progress”- John F. Kennedy. Pacific Trails planning committee is debating whether to create a utopian society based on conformity or individuality and they want to be sure to decide the right choice for an ideal community. Individuality is the better choice because there’s a greater life experience and there are more contributions to society.

Fairytales always end with a happily ever after. The Giver is somewhat like that with a positive ending of Jonas and Gabriel finding their way out of the community and seeing a village filled with lights and music. The book is about a young boy who receives an assignment as Receiver of the community. Being receiver of the community is thought of as an honor. Being receiver gives Jonas emotions he never thought were even real. He gets emotions like love, sadness, etc. The Giver makes a plan to help Jonas escape and help the community, Jonas displays courage, replacing negative memories with positive ones.

Bullying in the workplace has always been an issue that has not been given much importance. It is indeed a problem that should be addressed by the concerned personnel because it can result in many health and safety issues, especially when nurses are bullied at their workplace. From the beginning of times, people who are deployed at a senior post to tend to look down upon the students or new people who have just started work. Nursing is also one of the professions in which the fresh graduates or students are bullied to the extent that they feel that they would not be able to face their seniors. They start developing inferiority complex and are unable to perform their job well. When they are taunted by their seniors and preceptors about their lack of knowledge and experience, their confidence is shattered. This implies that when they are handling a case, they are not confident if they are doing the right thing or not. In this tussle, they sometimes do not even perform the task they were really good at and put the health and safety of the patient at stake.

Individuality is one of the key components of reaching the utopian standard. However, in The Giver, the community rejects the idea of individuality and instead focuses on developing Sameness, therefore initiating a form of control by allowing them to not express their own personality to shine, and alternately forcing them to contort into these soft putty-shaped beings with zero individuality at all. Conversations between Jonas and The Giver that occur throughout the novel informs the audience that the community lacks a sense of uniqueness and results in an absence of options to choose from.