Imagine a society with no memory of the past tragedies and achievements and a present with no memory of anything of the world, and it’s culture. A world with no memory of cars, rain ,sunlight snow, or seas but this also includes things that are evil and tragic as well as a great number of things. This would also include the bad things such as war, death, hate, wrath, pride, greed, pollution, sickness and racism would all be erased from the thought of this community. The following paragraphs are going to be on why creating this community would be better than not having it in this modern day society. There are many good reasons to transition to “sameness” and many reasons to remain a Federal republic The paragraphs below will explain why someone …show more content…
The main reason this way of government should be abolished is because it takes away a person's free will like choosing someone's job for them. By doing this the government in the book the giver the people who run the government control where you will spend the rest of their lives. This amount of power relates to a type of government called absolutism, which means a ruler or group that has power over every decision and complete power over all citizens. This type of government is not used in this modern era and for good reasons, to take away free will is a horrible deed and should not be …show more content…
More reasons would be lying to the whole community and deceiving them every day which also includes knowing about the world. The fact that they lie about what is really going on is wrong by itself, but there is no reason to lie about that. so with no reason to lie and yet they do it any way they not only break their common sense but also another thing. The leaders of this community break their own rules of not to lie and as well as precise language which in the younger classes of the community is stressed. The past four paragraph were to explain why and why not someone would choose sameness over a regular government and the other way around. The past four paragraphs were to explain the pros and cons of having sameness and a regular government. Many of the reasons included to keep memory. The sameness would also be excluding color and having animals as pets. there are also goods to sameness as the past paragraphs have explained. words
“Sometimes the hardest thing and the right thing are the same” -the fray. In the novel “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, there is a part in the book where Jonas, the protagonist, has to decide whether to bring Gabriel, a small child raised in the same family unit as Jonas, on his long journey towards “elsewhere”. Jonas has to make the decision to bring Gabriel along on his dangerous journey or to leave Gabriel at the community where Jonas knows that they will kill him. Jonas made the right choice to bring Gabriel. Jonas knew if he left Gabe there at the community they would kill him. Gabe would be given a better chance to live rather than to be left dead at the community. Gabe’s presence could provide Jonas the motivation to keep going towards “elsewhere”.
Like the previous argument, this one can be countered with Federalist No. 51. “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.” The government is a creation of the people and the only power is derived from the masses. Without the faith of the people, both the government and union could fall to ruin. The checks and balances system allows the government to regulate itself against encroachment and the creation of such factions described in Federal Farmer 3. While each branch is accountable to each other, should a faction be created within the government with ill intent, they will be held accountable to the people. If those that act against the will of the masses are not removed from office, the government will have to answer to the people, their main source of power. Ambition will counter ambition.
The Giver and Matched are both futuristic societies with a lot of rules. In The Giver the Elders choose their match as well as their children. Jonas starts loving Fiona but isn’t allowed and stops taking the pill. In Matched the officials choose their match but they can have their own children. Cassia is matched with Xander but also loves Ky and doesn't know what to do. In both story they all get jobs for the rest of their lives but in Matched they just call it vocations. Jonas gets the Receiver of memory and Cassia is supposed to be the sorter.
History has shown us that in order for a society to flourish there must be some commonality within the society. Sharing similar values, interests and cultures may be the basis for forming a community. The true test of a society is when communities can comprise, merging together as a larger, stronger, united society. For this process to even begin, there must be a common factor, be it foe, economic reasons, etc., a common goal amongst the communities. A prime example is the creation of a united American society. To truly appreciate the complexity of forming a united society you must first understand why these groups of people came to this strange new land. What similarities they shared, the differences which divided them and the force which unified them.
Lois Lowry describes a futuristic world with controlled climate, emotions, way of living and eliminates suffering in her book The Giver. The main character, Jonas, shows the reader what his world is like by explaining a very different world from what society knows today. Everything is controlled, and no one makes choices for themselves or knows of bad and hurtful memories. There is no color, and everything is dull. As he becomes the Receiver who has to know all the memories and pass them down to the next Receiver, he realizes his world needs change. He starts to believe that a world of sameness where no one can decide or make choices for themselves is boring. Lois Lowry is warning readers that living in a world of sameness is not something to create as it is boring and dull, but if the world follows conformity and does not value diversity and difference enough, society could become that of Jonas’s.
society, everyone wears the same clothes, follows the same rules, and has a predetermined life. A community just like that lives inside of Lois Lowry’s The Giver and this lack of individuality shows throughout the whole book. This theme is demonstrated through the control of individual appearance, behavior, and ideas.
As time passed tolerance of diversity came along with these democratic ideals. They not only changed society, they changed a country on the verge of a civil war. Ultimately, however, because of these ideals and the theology of the Second Great Awakening, the chance of war precipitated and tore a country in two.
This may sound like blasphemy, but I have never seen a Star Wars movie. Growing up with the last name Force, I can’t tell you how many times I heard, “may the force be with you,” and had no idea what they were talking about! I’ll be honest, there was a time when I wanted to see the movie, but there is a piece of me that refuses because there is an expectation that I would because of my last name. I guess it’s the punk rock in me, I don’t know.
Lois Lowry book The Giver is about a boy that is eleven named jonas lives in a utopia and every one is the same except him and the giver. The giver is the keeper of memories and gives memories to jonas when he turns twelve and he will become the giver . In the book The Giver They do conditionally accept the practice in euthanasia because it in the society. Is releasing new children okay? Is it also the same for the old? Is release a punishment?
Be the change you want to see in the world.-Mahatma Gandhi. In the book and the movie “The Giver”,by Lois Lowry Jonas (the main character) makes the change he wants to see in his world. He does something considered wrong in his world to make something right happen. In the movie “The Giver”, did a very good job of keeping the plot of the movie similar to the book it was based on, rising action, climax, and falling action wise. The name of the book that the movie was based on is "The Giver". This book's rising action, climax, and falling action are very similar to the movie. The book's rising action is where Jonas starts receiving memories from the Giver that changes the way he thinks about his community. The climax would be when Jonas realizes
Human, (verb) - of or characteristic of people's better qualities, such as kindness or sensitivity. In the novel, The Giver, the author Lois Lowry presents an inhumane society in which the sole purpose of every occupant is to participate in their jobs, then be moved to a home in which they simply wait till their day of release, a euphemism for de All the communities members are made to live almost identical lives, and all choices, other than time spent giving service in the community, are made for them. No one know anything other then this way of life. The main character, Jonas, lives with his family unit along with a small child, Gabe, who is being cared for as he wasn't developing at the prefered rate. Jonas is chosen to be the next receiver of memories of the community. While being trained, he is faced with the question of why. Why conform, why keep, why are
Throughout the history of the world, there has been many societies. All these societies had similar structures and ideas, but they all are different by their own special traditions and ways of life. Similarly, both our society and the society in The Giver share similar ideas, but they are different in certain areas. For example, they both celebrate birthdays and have family units, but they have their own way of doing so. Based on the celebration of birthdays and the formation of family units, our society is better than the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry.
We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” (97). In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, no one has seen a rainbow after a storm, no one knew what colors were; what choosing was; what it meant to be an individual. Everyone lived in complete Sameness, and never learned what it meant to be an individual. By eliminating as much self expression as possible in Sameness and society, Jonas's community has rejected the individuality of a society where people are free to move society forward. In The Giver individuality is represented by colors, memories, and pale eyes.
The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.
Should the most selfish elite individual take heed and meditate on the ideology behind community, he/she may awaken to the fact that many persons looking after one person has more advantages and a better survival rate than one trying to preserve one. The needs of the one will never outweigh the needs of the collective group. In the end individuality inevitably leads to self-destruction; therefore, commitment to community is a requirement for contemporary Americans and vital to its survival.