The Giver Sameness Essay
Imagine a world that is perfect. A world where no one gets hurt, physically or emotionally. Where people don’t have to choose, or take risks in life, because all of their major life 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 are protected from making wrong choices, hurtful or sad feelings, and weather and landscapes that can be hurtful in any way. By limiting choices in the community, everyone that lives there is kept from making bad decisions that could ruin their lives. A committee chooses a lot for the people in Jonas’s community, like who they will marry, how
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There are no forests, or hills, because there is risk in those things. For example, a memory Jonas receives is when he breaks his leg ‘sledding’,”It was as if a hatchet lay loged in his leg, slicing through each nerve with a hot blade” (103).It’s this kind of agony that Sameness protects from, changing the landscape so that no one can get hurt. The weather is changed for the people’s protection, too. It has been changed to a temperate climate, because the weather can hurt a person badly, as seen after Jonas runs away from the community, “…his steps were leaden, and he could barely move his freezing, tired legs” (167). The cold weather might have killed Jonas and Gabriel, when they finally escaped Sameness. This, among other things, proves that Sameness has the shield from the land and elements that make the world in The Giver a good place to
There are no forests, or hills, because there is risk in those things. For example, a memory Jonas receives is when he breaks his leg ‘sledding’,”It was as if a hatchet lay loged in his leg, slicing through each nerve with a hot blade” (103).It’s this kind of agony that Sameness protects from, changing the landscape so that no one can get hurt. The weather is changed for the people’s protection, too. It has been changed to a temperate climate, because the weather can hurt a person badly, as seen after Jonas runs away from the community, “…his steps were leaden, and he could barely move his freezing, tired legs” (167). The cold weather might have killed Jonas and Gabriel, when they finally escaped Sameness. This, among other things, proves that Sameness has the shield from the land and elements that make the world in The Giver a good place to