would a perfect society include Sameness? In the novel‚ The Giver by Lois Lowery‚ Jonas‚ the main character‚ lives in a society where everyone portrays Sameness. Sameness is where everything is equal. For example‚ every family has four people: a mother and a father‚ one boy and one girl. Jonas is assigned the job of the Receiver of Memory. The Receiver of Memory holds all the memories‚ so that the members of the society don’t have to feel pain‚ or happiness. The Giver‚ the old Receiver of Memory‚ and
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Lowry’s book‚ "The Giver". The book was awarded this medal not only because its movie adaptation was remarkable‚ the book itself was just as capturing. It takes you right into a ’utopian’‚ lifeless community. The book’s mentor helps the main character understand that not feeling anything is not normal. In “The Giver”‚ Lowry uses Jonas and The Giver to demonstrate that it is not cooperation‚ order‚ and Sameness that makes us human‚ but memories‚ individuality‚ and feelings. Sameness is what many people
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everybody else did. I’d be contributing to the sameness of everything.” -Captain Beefheart. In The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry citizens are forced‚ without knowing‚ to live according to the Committee of Elders’ standards. They choose what the people do‚ say‚ wear‚ etc. This is truly unfair for the Committee of Elders to use sameness to completely control the community. This is shown in the lack of authentic relationships in the family unit‚ the concept of sameness‚ and the absence of free will and choice. The
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world of the Giver all the people wear graym with the same haircut and no colors. Although some people may claim the world in the fiction novel The Giver by Lois Lowry is a utopia‚ it is a dystopia because sameness means there is no diversity which takes away from being human. Although sameness solves many of this world’s problems‚ it is not worth giving up diversity. In the story‚ as Jonas continues with his training he starts a conversation with The Giver about sameness. The Giver says “It wasn’t
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choices are made for them. This is the utopian world that The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ creates. There are no landforms or weather that couldn’t even hurt a fly. All big life choices are made for the people who live there‚ by an unbiased committee‚ so bad choices simply can’t be made. Most feelings are restricted‚ so that no one can hurt anyone else as a result of the bad feelings that can come up. Lois Lowry calls this situation Sameness. Sameness is a major improvement from our world today‚ because people
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about anything. This is what we could call sameness‚ in the book The Giver. The author who wrote the famous fantasy was Lois Lowry. Everyone’s the same they see the same colors‚ make the same decisions as everyone else in community and they all have never felt pain before except for two people. Lois Lowry message he tries to get to people is that sameness in a person’s life can define who they are and would cause people to all be the same. In the book‚ The Giver written by Lois Lowry‚ everyone in the
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religion everything is the same everyone thinks and acts the same‚ is that a bad thing or a good thing? the book the giver is about a boy named Jonas who was in a world with no color‚ no feelings‚ and no free choices‚ everyone has specific jobs based on there ability. Sameness is a bad thing because it can ruin everyones creativity and make life boring and uninteresting. The giver is about a boy named Jonas who becomes receiver in a world where he couldn’t pick his own job‚ on page 61 it states
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Lois Lowry’s award winning novel‚ The Giver‚ is set in a futuristic time where everyone lives in the world of sameness.The twelve year old protagonist‚ Jonas‚ along with his community‚ are forced to live in a world of sameness. When the kids in the community turn twelve they will be given jobs by the Committee of Elders. Jonas is given the job of being Receiver- a job in which Jonas will receive memories from the previous Receiver. From the memories Jonas learns colors‚ emotions and new and descriptive
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“SAMENESS” IN THE GIVER 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. To begin with‚the main advantage which citizens have is the relief
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degraded one. Which would our world today be considered‚ maybe a little bit of both? “The Giver” by Louis Lowry represents a society of sameness and Equality. The novel shows more of it being a dystopian society‚ both their society and our modern day society‚ have many similarities and differences.
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