Essay About the Giver ‘Sameness’

SAMENESS IN THE GIVER What would it step like living in a world which every cardinal is alike and the life is monotone? In The sponsor,written by Lois Lowry,theres a residential district based on perfection and the citizens who take a crap strict and assess-system rules to resist 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 nonplus lost. To begin with,the main advantage which citizens shed is the relief of not making any choices about their future.In Lowrys community, future jobs for all who became 12,have already chosen by elders,and anounced in the Ceremony of Twelve. Eventhough children who are unsuccesfull in their school has their jobs guaranteed. Because of the guaranteed future,the citizens never have economical issues,so the community dont have a value called money. Similarly to The Ceremony of Twelve,the citizens who are 9 years old also have a special ceremony,which every children receive a bike. Lowry emphasized that if no one is equal and have self resembling(prenominal) properties,there could be war or argument which is obviously against perfection. . On the other hand,sameness also has almost disadvantages in the community which is Perfect. There are so many un inhabitn values. Every citizen in the community is same-looking,and have a habit life just because they dont know what a difference is. There is no color to seperate their looks from each other,and no feelings to be aware of badness of the numeral life theyre living. In the novel,all the citizens must take pills to prevent their stirrings,but actually no one does know what a stirring is,and eventhough no one questions about it because there are no feelings.Samelike to those,the citizens never have random activities or do things which delays their daily routine. Everyone living in this community has a daily routine and never change the routine and thats o ne of the strongest examples for sameness in the community. Likewise,In the community,every family unit must have two children according to the rules and one of them must be male when the other is female. The citizens arent aware of how contrary rule it is because they never judge and question just as because of the sameness in the community.Accordingly to the community in The Giver, citizens have lost their diversity which prevents being same. Riding the same bikes,wearing the same clothes,and speaking the same language,even the same words, cant be acceptable for our world. In this community,no one has a private life,no one has a right to lie,and even all the doors are unlocked except The Givers door. In the beginning of the novel,the reader influences about the perfection of the community,but throughout the story,Lowry shows that the community which is based on Perfection is not perfect at all.Actually,its a community which is based on strict rules just to prevent people from fee lings,colors,and all the values which a human must have tasted at least formerly during their life times. Diversity is a very important value for humans,and a community cant be perfect without it. In The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, one of the major themes is sameness, which effects very deeply the life of citizens in the community based on perfection. monotony in somewhere just as this community, can either cause disadvantages or advantages at the same time, also including the loss of diversity. Lal Saracoglu 9F