Sameness In The Giver

Sameness and difference, is one of the themes Lois Lowry portrays in “The Giver”. The theme of sameness and difference plays a key part in Jonas’s life, and contributes to the people in his community, and their past as well.

In “The Giver”, written by Lois Lowry, one of the major theme’s is “sameness”, which effects very deeply the life of citizens in the community based on perfection.Sameness in somewhere just as this community, can either cause disadvantages or advantages at the same time, also including the loss of diversity.

If the citizens in the community were to hold their own memories, it would make The Giver and Jonas receive less stress. They would not have to worry about keeping the pain, joy, melancholy, memories that they get to experience each day a secret. The Giver and Jonas would be able to share what they learn and they would be able to teach others as well. “ The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” (p.193). The Giver and Jonas would not be the only ones who get to see color and feel love and emotions. They would be able to talk to people about what they discovered or what had happened in their memories. The Giver and Jonas would not be alone.

The things that make people human could be easily be taken away. In the book, The Giver, the government has made the citizens believe that sameness is good to have. The government would even go far enough to get rid of twins to completely avoid a little confusion. People are being forced to believe that sameness is a good thing and that being unique or different is a bad thing. These people are prevented from learning about the outside world. In The Pedestrian, people aren’t doing anything except for watching tv. The police catches a man, Leonard Mead, late at night walking and they suspect he’s doing a suspicious act. The police ask what he’s doing and he says that he’s just taking a walk like what he’s been doing for years.

At the start of the story Jonas is feeling nervous about the ceremony of twelve's, where the children are given their assignment. This is where for the first time in the children's life, they will be doing something different then every other person in the community. Jonas is given the very special occupation, which isn’t really an occupation at all, of Receiver of Memory. He is the only one that can have memories of what life was like before sameness. The memories are given to him by The Giver, who was the current Receiver of Memory. The Giver must transmit all memories of history (the good,

Society would be so horrible. If everyone had exact same skin tones, there wouldn't be any African-American role models who stood up for what they believed in because everyone would be equal, so inequality would never have existed. If everyone dressed alike, you would not be unique. You would just be one out of millions of people who follows the dress code. Clothes show your personality as said before, but if society was like this, you would not be able to choose what to wear. The reasons are is that there would be no color and everything is chosen for you whether you like it or not. You get a bike when you are nine years old and everyone has the same bike, eats the same food, clothing, house, and children and spouses are chosen for

Books can be different and similar in many different ways. Comparing and contrasting characters from two different stories can be hard sometimes. Billie Jo and Jonas are two characters from different stories and setting, but you can find similarities between them two.

" In the book The Giver, Sameness is complete control of variables within the community. These variables would be jobs, choice, food, clothing, names, color, and many other aspects of life. In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Sameness is used to eliminate the harsh factors of the world and life that could bring difficulties. If Sameness was used in today's world it would be beneficial in many ways.

You are about to experience a brief compare and contrast paper between reality and a fantasy. In which our world is no long a mass chaos but everyone is equal to each other. I am going to compare the book to the movie. Many things are different and most are the same, but i'm going to point of the differences today between the movie and the book.

Sameness through the community could be good. In the community everyone gets the same things, at different ages. At the age of nine kids get their bikes, “Each had wheeled their bikes outside.”(Lois Lowry, 59) In a community with sameness, there is a receiver who is the only person who can feel pain. This is good because no one else feels pain. “It would be painful” is what the chief elder said to Jonas when he got the job as receiver. (Lois Lowry 108) There is no jealousy throughout the whole community

The future can mean various meanings to other individuals. It could mean flying cars, hovering skateboards, or robots taking over the world. However, one author believes that the future might be what is called..”sameness”. Published in 1993, the author Louis Lowry written the Newberry prized novel,The Giver, has given a vision of what the 21st century might become.

The setting of The Giver functions symbolically from the Elders using sameness in an attempt to create a utopian society. The setting itself symbolizes how perfect sameness is unachievable yet the community still strives against uniqueness. In the text it strongly states how sameness is being used in a point of view of one of the major characters lily, she has to wear her ribbons because of her age group which was set a rule by the elders: “‘I don’t like hair ribbons, I’m glad I only have to wear them one more year,’ Lily said irritably, “next year I get my bicycle too,” she added more cheerfully.” The text strictly unfolds how the community is symbolizing similarity to each and every person in the community. Without any person being unique

(This is just my body paragraph) The system that the society prides itself most on is the system of Sameness. Sameness was originally intended to bring about order by eliminating differences between citizens of the society. In the beginning of The Giver, Jonas notes that after Asher shows up tardy to a class, he “...remained standing to make his public apology, as was required” (Lowry 3). The fact that a public apology was required shows that citizens take Sameness very seriously.

In today’s society, color is the thing that makes up everything. From artwork, to food, everyone sees color everywhere. But in Jonas’s society, they do not. All they see is light and dark shades.

In the text, Jonas receives his first memory: “It is like going downhill through deep snow on a sled,” he said, finally. “At first it is exhilarating: the speed; the sharp, clear air; but then the snow accumulates, builds up on the runners, and you slow, you have to hard to keep going”(82). This shows that there is no reason to shelter these memories from the society. The memories deserve a chance to be communal with all people.