Social Order Theory In The Giver

“Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen” (Lowry 103). Imagine a world with no control over who you marry, what your job is, what you wear, or what you get to eat for every meal. This is what it’s like in The Giver by Lois Lowry. The people live in a community that is severely more controlled than ours. We have the freedom to have a pet, have as many kids as you want, and say what you want. The people in The Giver do not have those freedoms. The people in the community don’t even know what love is. In our world love is each individual’s choice, but not in The Giver. In other words, they don’t get to experience the precious parts of life, such has having a wedding and giving birth to your child. No society is perfect, but citizens of every community have an

1.) People are not allowed to go outside after the specified curfew, this can help prevent someone getting injured, kidnapped, and just ensure a higher level of security for the residents in the society.

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

Along with his study on social facts, he also focused some on the Division of Labor. Many people during this time believed that the social order of things was in danger due to the selfishness of society as a whole. While Marx believed that capitalism was a bad thing and was bringing down society, Durkheim believed that it was a good thing and it pulled society together. As times progressed, so did society. Durkheim began to look at the solidarity of society. He categorized them into two different types mechanical and organic solidarity. . (Ritzer 2004) I believe that Durkheim thought

Honor and power are extremely different yet similar in many ways. Honor is a form of respect given to a person, group, or cause. Power is form of controlling people or a group. They can both be taken away from a person who abuses their traits. A person can abuse power by hurting people or controlling them with it. In the fantastic novel The Giver by Lois Lowry the Giver says that honor and power are not the same thing, which is true to me, but what do you believe?

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

Lord, Elyse. "Overview of The Giver." Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. Elyse Lord is one of the many critics who describe “The Giver” as terrifying but offering “hope and a constructive view” of the Utopian world in the book. She explains that other critics praise the book with many awards such as the Newberry Medal. Lord goes on to reason that the story is favored by different readers for its complexity, symbolism, metaphors, ambiguous ending, and can be compared similarly to classic science fiction like “Brave New World” and “Fahrenheit 451.” Contradicting this statement, Lord says that ‘librarians’, ‘educators’, and ‘students’ debate “The Giver” to be censored from public schools around the world because of its graphic scenes and ideas of infanticide and euthanasia. This includes the time Jonas witnessed his father murder a baby and throw it down a trash chute in cold blood. This is ironical compared to the language, emotion, and behaviors being censored in Jonas’s ‘Utopian’ society. Lord argues this through Anna Cerbasi of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, who asked the school board to remove a book that was about a family murdering their child for crying at night and called the book inappropriate for the sixth grade. Lord raises the question of who is to “decide which books are appropriate for which children,” and argues that it cannot be answered with not one but the many books integrated in school curricula that compose

The theme conveyed through the Giver is that individuality should be valued. The story takes place in a utopian society where everything is the same. There are no choices, no color, and no love in the Community of Sameness. The novel starts out a month before the Ceremony of Twelve, where the 12 year olds each get assigned a job. Jonas gets the assignment of the Receiver of Memory, and he soon finds out that lying is permitted, and receives several memories of the past without sameness, with pain too. He has the ability to see beyond, and finds out that he and the Giver are the only people in the Community that have the ability to see, as well as hear beyond. Similar to the phenomenon of an apple changing quality and his friend Fiona’s hair doing the same

Imagine living in a world with no individuality. Everyone would be limited to a degree of “sameness”. As a result, humans would lack the ability to love, to feel emotions, and to imagine. The world would essentially be filled with one shared mind; there would be no opinions, no choices, and no awareness that your mind was even being constrained what so ever. In her book “The Giver”, Louis Lowry exposes the dangers of the lack of individuality in a Utopian Society.

There are three words that are used for a tool for social control in The Giver. These three words are used in their community that promote or conceal the words we have that now in the community. Those three words are assignment, comfort object, and newchild. An assignment is given to you, and you can’t go without an assignment in Jonas’s community. A comfort object is given to all newchildren in their community, but taken away when they become older, and a newchild is what we call as a newborn. These three words are different than what we would call them, but their meanings are similar.

When I was young I knew I was different, because I felt no attraction to the opposite gender.I felt like I knew this, because whenever a girl gave me something affectionate I would feel emptiness. I know being gay goes against my religion and the way we are supposed to be as people, but people don't know how I feel except me.People who are hateful especially at school don't know how much I have suffered my whole life.I have struggled hiding who I am and still continue to suffer, because people are so ignorant including my family.I know one day I will find the right path, I just need to be patient.This goes to show how too much conformity can be bad used in hatred.Conformity can be good in this case if you accept yourself

The community, according to the Giver, went to the idea of sameness a while ago. It involved the lack of weather (no snow), and the entire community is in black and white. Jonas thinks that the idea of sameness is unfair. Thanks to the memory of the rainbow and him not taking the pill, Jonas can see colors unlike his friends. He says to the Giver that things should be different, but the Giver thinks the idea is good because there will be no conflict. Because of Sameness,....

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

(AGG) During the book the Giver Jonas’s relationships with people changed how he thought of the society.(BS-1) At the beginning of the book Jonas wanted to continue his friendships with people he was friends with before the ceremony of 12. He also wanted to fit into his family watching over the new child Gabriel.(BS-2) Once Jonas became the receiver of memories he started to question what was happening, to his society that he didn't know before and that the relationships he had were full of lies. (BS-3)

To Marx religion’s function in society is to blind the people to their oppression, and family is used to socialize the acceptance of oppression into the young people of the proletariat at a young age. Meanwhile, Durkheim sees religion as a platform to call together the people of the entire society under a common moral code. Marx’s concept that capitalism depends on alienation for create a rift between the members of the proletariat, contrasted my Durkheim’s solidarity that holds society together because of the bond it creates making the interdependence of society run better. And Marx allows his personal view of society influence what he believes will or should happen to society in the future. His personal belief that private property should be eliminated is reflected in his theory that when the proletariat form a class consciousness they will rise up and do just that. Durkheim attempts to remove himself from his theory and decides that society works well as it is and the problems it faces can be rectified. These are not the only comparisons that can be made between Karl Marx and Emile Durkheim. Both their approaches and actual theories hold many obvious differences, though some ideas do