Creativity In The Giver

Innovative thinking is crucial in today’s society with advancements in technology and modern art. Our society has a high demand for creativity, making it pivotal that school boards include classes in creativity. Creativity is the aspect of allowing individuals to create and innovate new creations and ideologies, thus the latin root word of crea meaning create, being in both words, creativity and creation. Creativity is using any means necessary to achieve a certain goal or objective in what may seem an unorthodox way. Schools should be required to integrate these creativity classes in order to allow students at a young age develop creativity and apply it into real life scenarios.
Creativity has always been an important part of civilization’s
In many scenarios if authorities do not allow creativity to grow, kids will not be exposed to new possibilities and they will not be able to foster innovative ideas. In the novel, The Giver, authorities do not allow the usage of creativity let alone have class in creativity. As a result of not allowing individuals to have creativity, their society and civilization is boring and plain with a lack of innovative and amazing inventions because creativity allows for people to have new perspectives on creations. Once included into the curriculum, creativity will allow students to look at modern day problems through different spectacles such as curing cancer or space travel. Creativity allows individuals to be versatile and approach these problems in society differently. In the Giver, once Jonas, the main character, gains creativity he approaches new problems differently and he returns happiness and emotions to the society and destroys the “sameness”. Creativity in schools must be implemented in order to allow kids access a full spectrum of knowledge. The importance of the appliance of creativity is crucial and once incorporated, it will allow individuals to tackle modern day problems effectively. These creativity classes would include teaching individuals how to tackle problems in a different approach than modern