What Is The Community In The Giver

In The Giver the authorities aim at achieving “Sameness” which means all people must be equal and the same. Lois Lowry describes a world of “sameness” where the lack of differences allows all members of the community to have predetermined roles and to follow an enforced set of rules. The Elders depict sameness in a way that makes it sound absolutely necessary, and without it, the whole world may fall apart. In the community of The Giver people accept everything as it is because they do not know any difference: “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time … we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference” (Lowry, Giver 95). This sameness is terrifying and further imposes conformity on all people. So the community of The Giver is a uniformed society. People wear the same clothes; eat the same food; their houses are the same; and most of them look the same as well. By the age of ten, they all have the same short hair style: “females lost their braids at Ten, and males, too, relinquished their long childish hair took on the more manly style which exposed their ears” (Lowry, Giver 46). In The Giver the purpose of sameness is to protect people from wrong choices and to achieve safety for them.

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

When anybody makes a decision it effects their futures for the better and the worse for example when you are riding your bike you choose to turn right but you turn the corner too fast and then you go off a small cliff and break your leg. This example shows that even the tiniest decisions affect anybody’s life. That is why in the community everybody’s path is chosen for them so that they can reduce the chances of pain, discomfort, and even make people be violent toward each other. In a conversation in The Giver Jonas and the Giver had a conversation about the past and how the founders “…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 differences.” (Lowry 95) The founders eliminated choice in this way.

There all also many differences throughout comparing and contrasting “The Giver” to our modern-day society. One of the major differences is that people in “The Giver” don’t choose their spouses, children or jobs. Families are created

Imagine you lived in a world with no pain, color, love, sunshine, memories,and have every aspect of your life controlled by a group of elders.Well in Lois Lowry’s The Giver for 11 year old (soon to be twelve) Jonas this is his average everyday life.In Jonas’s eyes, he lives in a utopian community.Jonas lives like this until he is selected as receiver and has some unexpected experiences. This leads Jonas to being able to see color,memories,pain,and love. These experiences makes Jonas realize that the community must change for the better.Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.

"It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to the Sameness.” (84) The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is from the perspective of a twelve year old boy named Jonas growing up in a Utopia. At the Ceremony of Twelve, where every person that turns twelve receives their life-long “job”, Jonas finds out he has been selected to be the Receiver of Memory, the most honored of elders. The current Receiver of memory, who Jonas calls the Giver, transfers memories of color and feelings like pain and joy to him. As he receives each memory, he learns of a life outside of the utopia. This book proves that being perfect and the same as everyone else is not as great as it sounds. The Utopian society of sameness in

“We don't dare to let people to make choices of their own.”In The Giver they decided things like their jobs,spouses,and children, whereas in our society we decided these things on own.The society in The Giver has many differences and few similarities with modern day society.

How would it feel if this world didn’t let people have choices, didn’t let people share, or if they didn’t let people celebrate birthdays, holidays, or just celebrate anything? Well that’s what it was like for Jonas in The Giver. Jonas lives in the future in a community where The Giver is the only one who knows everything, but soon all that changed for Jonas. He became the the community 's new Receiver of Memory, and soon Jonas learns the terrible secrets of this “utopian” community. Later on as he learns some more about the community’s secrets he makes a plan to leave the community, and to take Gabe with him so he wouldn’t get released.(which means they die, but the community doesn’t understand that) In this book choices, sharing, and celebrations would have made The Giver community more positive.

Accordingly to the community in The Giver, citizens have lost their diversity which prevents being same.Riding the same bikes,wearing the same clothes,and speaking the same language,even the same words, can’t be acceptable for our world.In this community,no one has a private life,no one has a right to lie,and even all the doors are unlocked except The Giver’s door.In the beginning of the novel,the reader influences about the perfection of the community,but throughout the story,Lowry shows that the community which is based on Perfection is not perfect at all.Actually,it’s a community which is based on strict rules just to prevent people from feelings,colors,and all the values which a human must have tasted at least once during their life times.Diversity is a very important value for humans,and a community can’t be perfect without it.

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 Giver is written from the point of view of Jonas. At the beginning of the book Jonas is an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that got rid of all sorrow, pain, fear, hate and war. Everyone looks and acts almost the same. Everyone is polite and there is no competition. Also the community is not allowed any kind of choices from the moment they were born to the moment they are released. For example, at the age of nine you are given a bike and are not allowed to ride a bike before that age. Also at the age of

The giver follows the life of a young boy named Jonas. In the future, society is different from now, emotions, colour, pain, and liberty are all things of the past, in this alleged dystopian novel. Thorough explanation of this is left out in the novel, what we know is some war or tragedy due to all the emotions, opinions, cultures etc. led to great measures being taken. Thus eliminating all feelings both good and bad, which in turn dehumanized the whole population almost making them in to living robots, just so that the chance of another catastrophe is narrowed down to almost zero. Liberty is merely an illusion in this novel since no choices are made by the people only by the “elders” who aren't explained a lot either

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

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.

In conclusion I believe that the giver community is a true dystopia. The elders are so lost in trying to perfect the community however don’t realize that their method is slowly tearing everything apart. Citizens can’t even make their own decisions any more. Everybody is simply being told how to live their lives and if they don’t obey they are being killed. The sad part is that these people don’t even realize