The Idea Of Sameness In 'The Giver'

In The Giver, there is no difference, there is only sameness. And while everyone in the community are basically brain washed from past memories, the fact that there is sameness affects Jonas’s life completely. “It was a sound of rage and grief and it seemed never to end.” This sentence is from when The Giver gives Jonas a memory of men hunting, and is a perfect example as to why Jonas’s community chose sameness over difference, and why no one (except the Receiver) is able to pertain memories. The whole reason the community chose to go to sameness, is so there would be no chaos. What the community basically decided was, if there is sameness, there is no pain, and no chaos. But while this was a good reason for the community to choose

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

“Color.” It’s all around us, we see it every day of our lives, everything has color, but the people in Jonas’ community didn’t know this. They had no clue what color was or that it even existed. Their society was hue less, hopeless, and everything was the same until the new receiver of memory changed that for everyone. In our world choice is a big part of our everyday lives we make many choices a day, do I want this or that, green or blue, this shirt or that shirt? But in The Giver choices were made for them, what they wear, how they act, what they say, what they eat, and what they do for a living. Imagine all that stuff being chosen for you. Everyone would be dressed the same, act the same,

The community has never seen color and for a long time Jonas has not either until he got his job as the receiver, and then about one year into his job he started he started see all of the colors, which brought a lot of conflict to his life, all because of sameness. For example, “ Things would change with Gabe,” Jonas went on. “ Things could be different. I don’t know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors.” and grandparents,” he added, staring through the dimness towards the ceiling of his sleeping room.” And everybody would have memories” (164).Things changed with Jonas when Gabrielle moved into his house, they have many similarities including blue eyes. The community has never celebrated holidays and did not have any other relatives other than their parents and one sibling. For example, “ After a life of sameness and predictability, he was awed the surprises that lay beyond each curve on the road ” (215). There is never any surprises in any ones life because everyone is ruled or controlled. It is so easy to predict what is going to happen each day because of sameness. There would not be so much conflict if it was not

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.

In the beginning of the novel, The Giver, a character demonstrates that memories can be kept, not thrown away. This story starts off with Jonas being nervous on the ceremony of twelve. Jonas discovers colors he never saw before. This experience resulted in a big difference of a bond of colors in memories through the progression of the Giver giving memories to Jonas. Jonas heard his first negative memory. Memories are very valuable. On page 68 It gives rules.

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the Giver and Jonas use the two following quotes to justify their community’s idea of “Sameness”, where everyone is the same but has no choice. The Giver tells Jonas, “Life here is so orderly so predictable—so painless.” In response, Jonas says, “We really have to protect people from wrong choices.” Eventually, both Jonas and the Giver realize that sameness is wrong and that it is better to be equal, to have the same rights, but able to choose to be different.

Price 1 Kennyann Price YAYtopia or uNOPEia "Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.

Life decisions are what shapes you to who you are. If you were told who to marry, how many children to have, where to live, and what job to have really isn’t living is it? In a world of sameness, everything stays the same and does not change. In The Giver, the story is told through a black and white image, that is until Jonas discovers colors. The receiver and the giver have a hard time connecting with the rest of the community due to being able to see what others cannot. “He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on (Lowry, 99).” Jonas starts to get frustrated over the fact that no one else cares about being all the

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In The Giver by Lois Lowry, The leaders cause a disservice to the citizens of the community by having “Sameness.” In the book, Sameness was made to keep the people in the community safe, to not repeat wars that occured far back in their history and to make life easier, or so they thought. Sameness includes climate control, meaning no snow, no rain, and even no sun. Also, there were no hills and people weren’t able to see color. However, when the main character, Jonas, is selected as the new Receiver of Memory, he begins to experience life without Sameness.

He had never before felt anything as meaningful as the memory.” (127). This shows that Jonas’ parents can not process they feeling of love. Lastly, none of the citizens, other than the Receivers, can see colors. This makes it so no one can point out the differences of other and makes everyone look the same.

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.

Would you sacrifice the freedom and individuality of yourself, your kids, their kids and generations more, for safety? In a community with no real emotion, no stress or worry, this is a way of life called Sameness. Sameness is where everyone has their choices made for them. Where everyone is treated alike, making them all equal. Twelve year old Jonas, the main character to The Giver by Lois Lowry agrees with this at first, but after experiencing memories no one else can, he has a hard time figuring out what and who to believe.

In the story The giver the author Lois Lowry write about a special character named jonas who lives in the sky with a civilisation and has two friends named Asher and Fiona who are all equal in every way but in the story johnas is not chosen for a job so then after that he was given the job for receiver and was told to meet with the giver (The Giver The Giver is the current Receiver of Memory and trains Jonas to become the next Receiver. Because he carries the burden of the memories of the world, he suffers from the pain contained within the memories. He is lonely because he can't share his work with citizens in the community, and he is cynical and frustrated at times because he knows that the people gave up too much when they chose Sameness.)