The Giver And Our World Analysis

In The Giver people are matched with their spouse instead of choosing your spouse yourself. The reason for this is because they have to protect people "from wrong choices," because that way "it's safer" (Lowry 98,99). Since the people in the community are matched with their spouse, there is no divorce or broken hearts. However, the citizens don’t even know what love is so they don’t know what heart broken feels like. In our society divorce is very common because they might of married to young or as they would say in The Giver made the wrong choice. Also in the book you cannot kiss or hug because that is inappropriate. Although in our society people are always hugging and some kissing, but not as much as hugging. It’s odd that you can’t hug because that is how people usually comfort each other. Also in our world if you're on an online dating site, the site might pair you with someone which is sort of like The Giver. So even though love in the modern world is flawed, these examples show that we are always seeking to find a soulmate, And what can be more perfect than

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.

The first reason about sameness is choice. In The Giver they do not give you a choice of anything. They should be able to have a choice of what they want to do. For example, a job, they don't get to choose what job they get. The community does it for them. They should be able to choose there job because the committee might choose wrong. They might not like their job they get and it will never get changed. They should be able to pick what clothing they wear because they all wear the same thing. They might not be able

After reading The Giver, it can be understood that our world and their community has many differences, but there are also some similarities.

4.) Since there are so many rules which the residents in The Giver have to obey, there are no arguments or fights. This is because when choices are not in the hands of themselves they have nothing to fight about. Thus, a peaceful, safe and joyous community is made.

Have readers ever wondered what if the world was completely perfect,or if it was completely wrong, and not what it seems ? Well, the community represented in The Giver can be considered a distopia, because of control,constant surveillance, and sameness.

This shows that within the community of the Giver, personal identity is assigned merely to members of the community. They are recognisable by their jobs and family units, but are neither independent nor seen as having the ability to make decisions for themselves.

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.

The Giver describes a society in search of perfection, which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling, among other things, would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings, the creators were able to implement Sameness, which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.

The relevant theme shared by both text were sameness and equality. The both community were under the control of Chief or elder. In The Giver the reason Lois Lowry uses the word “sameness rather than “equality” because equality implies that people have certain basic human rights, which in the community in The Giver they didn’t. For example, they didn’t have the freedom to make choices as to who they marry or what job they do. However, since all their experiences throughout their early lives were controlled, they were all besides Jonas and The Giver. “So there will be a whole part of your life which you won’t be able to share with your family. It’s hard Jonas. It was for me.” said by the Giver because he had to sacrifice his life to become the Giver and he knew how hard it felt. In Harrison Bergeron, the government enforces their idea of equality by physically and mentally handicapping citizens. The beautiful must wear hideous masks or disfigure themselves, the graceful and strong must wear weight around their necks at all hours of the day and the intelligent must listen to earsplitting noises that impede their ability to think. “Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else.” In both texts the protagonist try to solve a problem but they had created another problem by sharing it to the other members in the community. Also because they went against the rules and regulation the community were disrupted.

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

The setting of The Giver is bleak and lackluster, portraying everyone and everything as the same. There are no differences or any uniqueness. All of the families have the same amount of people in their household. For example, the book describes families as “two children-one male, one female- to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules” (11). People dress, speak, and even think similarly. With the strict rules the town makes force everyone to be the same. The citizens have to talk in a certain way or they will get punished. The girls cannot do their hair differently than others. Children are not allowed to ride bicycles until they turn nine years old. The

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.

In the giver society they have a lot of rules and things they don't know about.Three things that i can compare and contrast from the giver society and my society is how in the giver society they have to wear certain things showing the community that there a certain age, they don't see colors or know what music is,and they get certain assignments or activities at a certain age.

Would you want to live in a world where there is no choice and mild feelings? Can you imagine a world where everything is decided for you, and you are irrelevant? This is the way that the community in The Giver is run; it is called sameness. Sameness is not a good way to live, because you can learn from your mistakes, difference can be a good thing, and there is no reason to live without choice. One reason Sameness is not a good way to live is that with sameness people cannot make any bad decisions.