Individuality In The Giver

White people and their story... Imagine living in a society where there are no emotions, no sex, and no decision making. This may not seem like a perfect society, but in Jonas’ society they believe it is. In the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas lives in a community where everyone experiences “sameness” in order to maintain a perfect society. When Jonas becomes the community Receiver, he notices the flaws that have been kept hidden, and he tries to reveal the truth. Through Jonas, Lowry is trying to prove the importance of individuality. Each age group has certain specifications to ensure that they meet the goals for their maturity levels. Babies are chosen to become members of the community as long as they reach the necessary maturity

They have a dinner table ritual of sharing feelings, which is to relieve the citizens of the community of their negative emotions. One night during the dinner ritual Jonas discovers that his parent don’t know the experience of love.When puberty begins, and so do sexual desires, they begin taking a pill which eliminates the sex drive. Sexual attraction is nonexistent. So in other words, enforced, extremist asexuality; however, If couples are not together for reasons of romance or reproduction, why are they all heterosexual? So due to their lack of emotions they don’t acknowledge the sorrow of death. Their ceremony of loss shows how each human life is meaningless. Caleb was a small child who drowned and was easily replaced by another child with the same name, that’s just one of the many examples of them not caring about human life. They will commit murder without showing any remorse. They also kill the elderly before they die from natural causes in order to protect the harmless idea of release. When someone gives birth to identical twins they pick the smaller one and kill it in order to protect sameness. Which goes along with brainwashing the works to kill. Jones’ dad was the one who killed off the smaller twin and he talked to the baby sweetly as it dies then places it in a box and put it down a garbage chute as if he wasn’t doing anything