Sameness In The Giver

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Tones of gray are all I see. Movement of the floor is the alarm that stirs me awake. It goes off at 4:00 am every morning, every day. Heading down a marble staircase in a washed out grey cardigan that everyone wears daily, I grab of what is called an apple and bite into it. An announcement always goes off throughout the day as a reminder, an event coming up, or a warning to the citizens. People watch us with cameras, it’s their jobs to track everyone’s movement since the day you were born to the day you die. Soldiers patrol around so no one can become disobedient. Life is perfect, no mistakes are made. Then one day I realized this lifestyle is unfair. How is it unfair if everything is perfect? Sameness is a rule that is unreasonable and the lack of privacy since we are monitored. …show more content…

In the novel, The Giver it tells a story about sameness and how one boy named Jonas tried to break it. On page 95, it states, "Our people made the choice, the choice to go to sameness...We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference." In other words, the quote means people made everything different disappear so no mistakes or consequences are made. However, Jonas responds on page 97 "If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!" Sameness doesn't allow choices and that's what the elders ceased. It's unfair because people are unable to show their individuality in their

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