Sameness, the End of the Human Race

In the modern world, most people take everything for granted: love, beautiful sceneries, and infinite knowledge of everything. They complain about minor details in life. Men worry about their cars and women worry about getting their dresses dirty. Now imagine a community in which there are no cars and no colorful dresses. Not realizing that a possibility of Sameness exists they do not appreciate the diversity. Imagine a community with Sameness and no diversity. Imagine how restricted the citizens might be, how colorless their lives might be, and with no love. This is what Jonas’s community is like in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. In his community all the residents are stuck with Sameness running their lives and not knowing that it can change. In this world with Sameness, all the things that make life living for such as love, sceneries, and infinite knowledge are gone and a pointless world with Sameness is left; however, this can be changed if love, color, and knowledge is brought into the world.

For many people, their families are the most precious and important things in their lives, now try to imagine this in a community in which love does not exist. The thing is that if love does not exist, then the feeling does not either. Jonas has started his training and now is receiving memories from the Giver regularly. The Giver decides to give Jonas a memory like no other; a memory of a time when love and true family was in the air. After the memory of Christmas and love, he goes home and asks his parents if they love him. “‘Jonas. You, of all people. Precision of language, please’” (127)! Believe it or not but this is Jonas’s father’s response and in it he stresses “Jonas” and “please.” If a child goes up to their parents and asks if they...

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...ase actually is. If one actually sits down and thinks about what is being kept from the public, they will realize that it is actually a lot of information that is being held back from the public, all because of Sameness.

If love, color, and knowledge, were to be existent in the community, one would realize how much better life is, how much more it is worth living for, and that they hate Sameness. Jonas’s community is a perfect example of what would happen if Sameness were to be in existence in our community. It is then that one would realize by how much they would rather have their old diverse, beautiful, loving community to have back. This is why it is impudent that people respect and appreciate our modern world in which knowledge is infinite. The world should end all war and settle down with peace amongst everyone in fear that Sameness is always a possibility.