Sameness In The Giver

Imagine living in a community where you are restricted from virtually anything, and still cannot do anything about it. The Giver by Lois Lowry, is a novel about a boy designated Jonas who lives in a community full of Sameness and perfection. Later,when the special ceremony of twelve takes place, Jonas gets the exclusive assignment of Receiving Recollections. With the former Receiver Of Recollections kenned as The Giver, they avail make the community a better place. Sameness is a disadvantage in the community because the community has so many unneeded rules it constrains people from expressing themselves, and Sameness obviates them from making their own culls. First of all, Sameness is a disadvantage in the community because it does not benefit

Jonas asks, “Were any of the Elevens disappointed?” (Lowry 16). His father responds by saying, “Of course the Elders are so punctilious in their observations and culls,”(Lowry 16-17). Jonas asked his father that when he was in group Eleven if anyone else misprized his group’s assignment, limpidly exhibiting how solicitous he is getting his assignment. Adscititiously, the community would be better off not having elders to optate their assignments for them. For example, if Jonas did not relish what the elders have culled for him, he would have no cull but to live with his assignment for the rest of his life. Jonas states that “the children all received their bicycles at Nine; they were not sanctioned to ride bicycles afore then” (Lowry 14). Albeit this rule does not directly affect the characters in this book, it is still a rule that does not let the community do certain acts to express themselves. Just like the other rules, this rule does not provide safety or ameliorate the community, but applies more restrictions on people of the community. Fortifying, I claim that the rules of the community are not always