Examples Of Conformity In The Giver By Lois Lowry
In the Novel The Giver, the author, Lois Lowry, presents a young boy named Jonas living in a world that is full of conformity and no choices allowed. In the community which Jonas lives, everyone is assigned a job and is disciplined when they do something wrong. Along the way Jonas learns he has a special type of Job as the Receiver of memories and he has special advantages he learns and wants to give people in the community to have choices. Lowry argues that over conformity is detrimental and the ability to make choices are beneficial to our lives and lives of others. Lowry demonstrates this through Jonas wanting to make choices, seeing his father release the twin, and taking Gabe.
One way Lowry shows that over conformity is detrimental and
the ability to make choices are beneficial to our lives and lives of others is when Jonas makes choices. Lowry uses this in the scene when Jonas experiences colors for the first time, he wants to have freedom to choose things that are different. It would be unsafe to allow people to choose their spouse or their job, but he still feels frustrated.(pg163). Addiotnally, Lowry adds that over-conformity is beneficial is in the scene when Jonas decides to stop taking the pill. It has been four weeks since Jonas stops taking the pill. His friends ask hi to join a game of bad and good guys, meanwhile Jonas realizes it as a war game and refuses to Join. later in another scene, Jonas asks the Giver what would happen to him if he accidentally drowns in the river like Caleb has, carrying a year of memories with him. The Giver tells him that it would be a disaster: he wouldn't loose his memories, but instead all the people in the community would have them, and they would not be able to deal with the,.
One way Lowry shows that over conformity is detrimental and
the ability to make choices are beneficial to our lives and lives of others is when Jonas makes choices. Lowry uses this in the scene when Jonas experiences colors for the first time, he wants to have freedom to choose things that are different. It would be unsafe to allow people to choose their spouse or their job, but he still feels frustrated.(pg163). Addiotnally, Lowry adds that over-conformity is beneficial is in the scene when Jonas decides to stop taking the pill. It has been four weeks since Jonas stops taking the pill. His friends ask hi to join a game of bad and good guys, meanwhile Jonas realizes it as a war game and refuses to Join. later in another scene, Jonas asks the Giver what would happen to him if he accidentally drowns in the river like Caleb has, carrying a year of memories with him. The Giver tells him that it would be a disaster: he wouldn't loose his memories, but instead all the people in the community would have them, and they would not be able to deal with the,.