Without Diversity In The Giver By Lois Lowry

Despite attending a very large and diverse public high school, very few of the books we read in school focused on diversity. Every book we read in high school was written by an old, white, male. Since coming to Bryant, I have been exposed to new forms of literature that were written by authors from many diverse backgrounds. In addition to the authors being diverse, the subjects they write about are also diverse. One piece I have read this year that has increased my diversity awareness is “We Real Cool” by Gwendolyn Brooks. Reading and discussing “We Real Cool” has helped me to become more aware and more considerate of people around me. “We Real Cool” opened my eyes to the fact that diversity deals with more than just race. Diversity addresses

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.

When I was in eighth grade, I read “The Giver” by Lois Lowry for the very first time. Since the first time I read the book, I have read it three additional times. Since the book was published in 1993, it has sold over ten million copies. It is a required reading in many schools. The story follows a young boy named Jonas through his life in a seemingly utopian society that has eliminated many issues that the modern world now faces. There is no crime, no war, and no poverty. In this world, every individual looks and behaves similarly; the world is seen only in black-and-white, with no color existing. When children turn twelve years old, they receive a job that they will perform for the rest of their lives, until they are eventually “released”

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

“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

In The Giver, Fahrenheit 451 and in our society, the lack of difference, rules against thinking and books, and having a democracy are different methods and techniques are used to keep people equal. In The Giver the government keeps people equal by making them look similar. All of the people in the society except for Jonas and the Giver, can only see things in black and white. The lack of color keeps people from looking different based off of color. Also everyone has their birthday celebration on the same day so that it will be fair for everyone. ‘“How to explain this? Once, back in the time of memories everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called color.”’ and ‘“But I want them!” Jonas said angrily

     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.

Our modern day society has grown much from our “primitive” days, nevertheless we are still far from what we see as a perfect society. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s community has attempted create a perfect society, but in reality has constructed a perilous and frightening place. Although these two societies may be pretty distinctive, they are actually still more similar than what meets the eye. If you begin to dig deeper you will find that factors like families, jobs, and laws can all be put into a perspective that evaluates both of their similarities and differences.

In the dystopian novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the ability to express yourself is looked upon as a transgression. Jonas begins share his ideas with his mentor, the Giver, and complains that if “everything's the same then there aren’t any choices… [he wants] to wake up in the morning and decide things” (Lowry 123). Personalization is important and so is social development which Jonas’ community lacks. It is a way of personal freedom and self-expression. Individuality in today’s society allows anyone to choose their own importance in today’s world.

When considering the similarities between Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, and the real world; one must consider all aspects of our domain, and history. A few similarities stand out as being predominantly controlling. The Giver, possesses several resemblances to Nazi Germany. The novel also portrays an appalling method for dealing with newborns that are less desirable. The novel also reflects on the way those who are too old are sent on a vacation to elsewhere. The novel leads one to assume that the handicapped would be met with equal cruelty. The story primarily sets forth ideas that are relevant of the era; when politically correctness would have been obstructing to an individual’s uniqueness. There reaches a point where conformity and perfection is controlling of an individual’s free will, and Lowry tries hard to portray the issues found in a world where everyone is the same; in which she indisputably succeeded.

    The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.

The Giver by Lois Lowry takes its readers into a world of pure utopianism, or so it seems. The book portrays a seemingly perfect society in which there is no pain, hurt, and corruption. Lying beneath the veneer of perfection, however, is the fact that the community is in emotional and mental chaos. No one knew of the problems the society was facing, because the state of life in which they lived now was all they knew. The community was missing out on many wonderful things to obtain what they thought was perfection (Politics and Film Database).

What if a whole community had the absence of color, expect for one twelve-year-old child? According to the novel The Giver written by Lois Lowry, Jonas, the twelve-year-old child, lives in a seemingly ideal, but colorless, community of conformity and contentment. Not until he is assigned, and given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory, as he starts to understand the dark, and complicated secrets behind his community. He begins to recognize various ways in which his community needs color to be more free and happy. Within, the novel Lois Lowry, mentioned a lot of themes that were contributed to Jonas’ ability to see color, and the absence of color in his community. One of the themes that was expressed within the novel was, the

The giver is a fictional novel authorised by Louis Lowry dedicated to informing readers about the devastating impact of extreme conformity on a community. As we progress throughout the book we start to realise and learn all these new things about the giver's community, such as creating and trying to maintain a perfect community, that comes beyond our abilities, while the givers society is having a huge impact on the individuality and individual choices on the members of the community. We learn that the inhabitants of the society had a hard time handling all the different memories, in a sudden event. All hints and evidence to these statements above are hidden and presented throughout the book.

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.