Examples Of Sameness In The Giver

After examining the Utopia in “The Giver”, I do not support eliminating personal choice and freedom for a Utopia. One reason I believe in freedom and choice is I believe individuals should choose their own jobs, unlike in “The Giver” where they cannot. If people chose their own jobs, they are motivated to contribute to society. Some people chose jobs that others may not because they get some personal benefit from it. Steve Jobs said,” Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.”

The Giver is a good example of following who society wants you to be or follow your heart's desire and be happy. Sameness means the lack of variety. In the novel The Giver, you can’t see color, the climate is controlled, and everything is chosen for you. Jonas is assigned the job of being The Receiver of Memory in his community.

What would it feel like living in a world which everyone is same and the life is monotone?In “The Giver”,written by Lois Lowry,there’s a community based on perfection and the citizens who have strict and ethic rules to prevent their community from becoming unethical and unequal.Lowry conveyed her ideas both with in advantages and disadvantages,and the diversity which citizens in the community have lost.

This is an example of internal conflict, as Jonas is deterred by two differing sets of emotions. An example from the novel that demonstrates this conflict is, “Jonas sighed. This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules.” Taken from early in the story, this quote shows how Jonas disagrees with even simple parts of his daily routine. Furthermore, readers learn later that he disagrees with the rules and decisions that have been made for people against their will. On the other hand, he was accustumed to the current way of living, as is has been the same since generations before his birth. The newly named Receiver internalized his concerns, to avoid being punished or

The Giver is written by Lois Lowry, a novel that went viral universally in the past years warning society that having a “perfect” society can have end results that will be catastrophic. The main character, Jonas and the world he lives in does not have the freedom of choice at all. His daily life consists of being stalked, and being aware to be self-conscious and in the future those “stalkers” make choices for him to have no control over his life daily, so in conclusion his “world” is a control freak. The end results in all this conformity and self-consciousness is confusion and rebellion in the most part. The examples of conformity in the book are many but a few are; Socially expected behavior, dress codes, and relationship selections.

Imagine a world without color and love. Jonas, protagonist, in The Giver, his world was meant to be a utopia but it turned into a dystopian society. Comparing jonas’s society to modern day society they are two very different places. Jonas’s world has no love, they experience sameness, and do not experience freedom of choice; modern day society has freedom of love, a variety of weather, and we celebrate individual choices. First of all, Jonas’s society does not experience love, while modern day society does.

Imagine waking up one day, and all your choices are stripped away from you. You can no longer choice blue or red, up or down, one or two. Everything has been picked out for you whether you like it or not. The community in the Giver is a utopian society. All members have a clear-cut set of rules they must follow. The rules were made to get rid of pain and fix society’s problems. On the occasion of when the truth is revealed Jonas, a unique boy, questions society, and its motives. Personal choice is one of the most important things, even in the event that it may cause pain or suffering. Individuals within the community should have a right to pick their spouse, have their own children, and pick their careers.

I’m writing to you today to express my concerns regarding immigration reform. Recently, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has made insulting remarks regarding Mexican immigrants stating “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re not sending you. They’re not sending you. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” When he speaks about Mexicans he is referring to the worst stereotypes of Mexicans. Although he is correct in saying that there are good people, according to a Washington post article, “a range of studies show there is no evidence immigrants

From their origins to 1500, the attitudes of both Christian and Muslims toward trade shifted as conditions in the Christian and Islamic worlds changed. In the beginning, Christian attitudes were more negative, while Muslims tended to encourage and respect trade and merchants. Over time, Muslims became more like early Christians in that they were suspicious of traders whereas the Christians became more like the early Muslims, equating merchants (at least honest ones) with doing God’s work, reflecting the changed importance of trade in the high Middle Ages in Europe.

Imagine a world where you are limited to having two kids, you're not allowed to pick your spouse or job, and you do not know what love is. Would you want to live in a world like this? Here’s the catch: there are no problems in this world. There is no hate, no death from disease or violence, no conflict, and no pain. This is the community Jonas, the protagonist of Lois Lowry's novel The Giver, lived in.

Numerous, basic rights were taken away from citizens in an attempt to form a more perfect world. The Community that the characters of The Giver belong to is constructed to eliminate differences, irregularities, choices, emotions, and colors. This is called Sameness. Everyone looks similar; the weather is always sunny and a constant temperature; members have no choice of what to eat or wear; their emotions are reduced to simple feelings, and they are required to share them with their family units each night.

In the Giver by Lois Lowry, the author creates a utopia that includes uniformity. The first way Lowry creates uniformity is through the Ceremony of Ages. Moreover, another way Lowry creates uniformity is each family unit includes the equal amount of family members. Lastly, another way Lowry creates uniformity is by everyone following the same rules. Lowry creates uniformity through societal standards which influences the characters to behave the same which effects them in their dreams.

The main character in the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry lives in a seemingly similar society as ours. But as we go on farther in the story, we find out that his society isn’t like ours at all. We find out that they practice “Sameness”. Sameness is where everyone is the same in every way possible. In the story, Jonas gets selected as the Receiver, a very important job in the society. The job would later on allow him to experience the missing aspects of his neighbors’ lives. As Jonas starts to see the society for what it really is, he does not like how he lives so he decides to do something about it. After reading the book, we can conclude that the theme of the story is you should stand up for what is right, even if you must stand alone.

In the fictional universe that Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, is set in, all ideas of uniqueness have been done away with. People can no longer see colors. Community members are encouraged to use precise language only, to the point that concepts like love are considered antiquated and obsolete. People cannot experience things such as music. The weak, such as underweight newborns and the elderly, are “released”, or euthanized. Individuality is not only illegal, it is extinct. One would wonder why such a society would ever be created; the answer, as explained in the book, is that uniqueness creates jealousy, which creates envy, which creates hate. Therefore, individuality is at the root of all problems, including war and famine. In theory, if

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.