Sameness in Literature and Life The Giver, by Lois Lowry, and Levittown, PA both enforce the idea of sameness in everyday life, because they both have perfectly planned communities, the people there all live the same lives, and they both don’t like things that are different First, in The Giver and Levittown, their communities are perfectly planned. In Levittown each section had the exact same thing so no one gets jealous or feels different. In The Giver each section is just like in Levittown because everything is the exact same. In the Levittown promotional video, one woman was talking with another women from the welcoming committee. In the background you can see workers putting in a tree in their front yard, the woman from the welcoming committee says “Did you get all your trees, or is that the first one?”. This shows just how much sameness is in Levittown, there is so much that everyone has the same number of trees in their front yard. Because their towns are filled with sameness everyone gets along and doesn't feel the need to have more than another person. …show more content…
In Levittown each group of houses has its own pool, baseball field, school, and a baseball club. With all of that no one would ever want to leave the enclosed space of Levittown. In The Giver it is almost the exact same because they work and then play outside and do the same things almost everyday. On page 48 in The Giver it says “How could someone not fit in? The community is so meticulously ordered, the choices are so carefully made.” The people become so accustomed to their lives of sameness that they forget what life was like
“I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste, in fear, and had brought about their own destruction” (48). In the old days, when people in Jonas’s community valued individual needs, there were lots of terrible happenings: violence; and then the society ended up with general welfare and safety. It is difficult for us to think of a world without color, freedom, music and love, but in The Giver, the society denounces these things in order to make room for peace and safety. In The Giver, by having a society based on general welfare they gave safety to their people. No violence, no criminal activities, nor homicides.
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.
In these two societies, they both are similar by having a strict government that does not let anyone leave the community but however, in The Giver no body...
In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the utopian society where Jonas lives is superior to Elsewhere. Jonas’ utopian society is perfect because it is efficient. There is peace, honesty, and everyone is fed in Jonas’ community. Elsewhere is a world based on feelings and choice. Feelings can hurt people, and people can make wrong choices; but feelings can make people ecstatic, and people can make positive choices. Jonas’ utopian society is a better place to live.
One way that the setting in The Giver impacted was that there was no snow or hills. There used to be snow and hills but then the community changed to sameness. “ Why don't we have snow sleds and hills” Jonas said.” Climate Control… Snow made growing food very difficult” giver said snow and hills made transportation impossible at times. The community changed their entire climate and removed hills just to have a more controlled life where there are no choices.
In both books the theme is control, dystopian and the government decides everything. “Two children-one male, one female-to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules” In the Giver they think that they live a perfect world. However, the government hides things from them and they don’t want the people to have feelings. There is no colour or animals and the government has control of the weather. The reason is because they don’t want people to have feelings. They even pick their jobs for them. In The Hunger Games their is social class people who live in the Capitol are very rich. However the other 12 districts are very poor. Each district has a purpose to make something for the Capitol. In the Giver the government tries to make everything the same. They want control of everything and everyone. They try and make the community as sameness as
The community in The Giver is definitely a utopian society. The town, surrounding structures, and people of the community have very few flaws which make them cold, calculating, and logical. The people of the community cannot comprehend feelings, which makes the community’s value worthless in the eyes of someone who can remember and feel emotion such as the reader, The Giver, and Jonas. For all the other inhabitants, the community is a place where they hardly ever feel pain, or anything that can cause them harm in any form( both mental and physical ) .The community was made into a paradise by taking away emotion and choice, thus creating non-feeling, color-blind, shells of what former humans once were.
The Giver is very different to our modern day society. First, in The Giver you get assigned jobs, unlike us where you can choose. Second, you get assigned a family unit where you are forced to have one girl and one boy that someone makes for you. Also, in The Giver you can only see in black and white to make it fair. Though they both seem like opposite societies there is some similarities between them.
Would you ever want to be in a world with no sunlight and have the same temperature every waking day? This is what life is like for the people in “The Giver”, where there is no sunlight and no temperature. When our society has those things...sunlight and different temperatures. These are not the only differences, there are many more between “The Giver” and our society.
The Giver’s society is similar to our society in the way of running families. For example, the families have a mom and dad with 1 to 2 kids as most families in our society do. Another similarity is the comfort object kids get when they are born. In our society, most kids like to sleep with stuffed animals which is what the comfort objects
Jonas’ community chooses Sameness rather than valuing individual expression. Although the possibility of individual choice sometimes involves risk, it also exposes Jonas to a wide range of joyful experiences from which his community has been shut away. Sameness may not be the best thing in the community because Jonas expresses how much he feels like Sameness is not right and wants there to be more individuality. Giver leads him to understand both the advantages and the disadvantages of personal choice, and in the end, he considers the risks worth the benefits. “Memories are forever.”
To commence, between The Giver and modern day society, the novels society has no individuality compared to modern day society. In modern day society you have the individuality to have feelings for one another, pick your spouse, and have as many kids you would like. In The Giver’s society they can’t have feelings, pick their spouse, or have as many
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.
The Giver can be a dystopia world or it can be an utopia world. The fact that nobody has the memory of anything except for the Giver is sad. The people haven’t seen color, animals, feeling feelings and weather changes. Is there a reason why only the Giver or the Receiver knows what the real world is? What is everyone scared about? Why do they think that everyone needs the same? This book has a lot of questions to ask yourself, but no one really know what the answer is. That is why this book is unique and different than any other book I have read. This is why nothing is perfect if it is the same.
The second reason I would not want to live in The Giver community is the society makes decisions for people. “That’s the treatment for stirrings.” (PG.36 P.7)In our world people get “stirrings’ all the time, in the giver society they would make you take a pill so the stirrings would go away. On page 92