Sameness in “The Giver” by Lois Lowry

Would you like to live in a community that has sameness? Sameness is when everything in the community is exactly the same. Lois Lowry wrote the book The Giver. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas. He lives in a society that is controlled by strict rules by The Elders. Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memories. When he starts receiving memories he starts feeling sadness and love. None of the people in the community are able to experience feelings.

Jonas is taught by The Giver. The community has chosen to implement sameness so that all citizens will be treated equally. There are both positive and negative effects of this.

The Giver creates an environment of sameness by making the people in the community not see color. Everyone in the community sees black and white and no one sees color. A quote from the book The Giver says “We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and done away with the difference. We gained control of many things. But we had to let others go.” (95) That will be one of the ways that The Giver creates an environment or sameness.

Another way that The Giver creates a community of sameness is by not letting the people have any emotions. They can’t love, care or feel anything like that because everyone is the same in the community. Another quote from the book says “ He felt such love for Asher And Fiona, but they could not feel it back without the memories. And he could not give them those.” (135) That would be another thing that The Giver creates an environment of sameness.

Lastly, The Giver creates an environment of sameness when people have no choices. All choices are made for the people such as who is your family and also what your job will be. In The Giver Lowis Lowry, a man wanted a choice and now when he got the choice but he made the wrong one. “Then, when he had had a choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving.” (174) That is why in the community people have no choices, and with no choices, it eliminates problems and other things.

The Giver creates a community and environment where there is sameness. Sameness is when people have no emotions, no choice, and they don’t see color instead they see black and white. The paragraphs above explain basically all of the sameness. Those are just a few ways there are plenty more. This is also one way the giver creates a boring environment. Now imagine a world where everyone is the same and does everything the same.

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