Tentative Thesis for Topic #13:
Sameness is a central theme in Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver. In her novel, Lowry warns the reader of the danger of conformity by creating a utopian community that operates based on the idea of sameness. This utopian society manipulated people by getting away their right of choices, their emotions, colours, memories of the past, music, and everything that makes them different from each other and makes them to notices other people’s differences. With all of this important things in life that is relinquished from the citizens of this utopian community, the reader can feel that this is a complete opposite of a utopian society; this is a dystopian and destructive society.
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She further explains that we see many of these formats in The Giver, such as the precision of the language that word must be fixed and give exactly what it means; This idea is same in metaphysical expectations that word must be fixed and direct to the point. She also mentions that in today’s society people tempted toward the metaphysical idea of the sameness such as in North American, fundamental Christianity, looks to remove differences in the sexual orientation, in the favour of the “sameness” heteronormativity. She also talks about Ralph Tyler who created the standardized test that is derived to be in the logical form from the needs of society with rational format of control inputs leading to the control outputs. She explains that standardized test eliminates creativity and differences and reduce learning to the sameness. She mentions the consequences of this type of learning is labelling children with normal to abnormal and also ignoring the groups whose race, sexual orientation, gender and their ability are not conform to other
Sameness is a central theme in Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver. In her novel, Lowry warns the reader of the danger of conformity by creating a utopian community that operates based on the idea of sameness. This utopian society manipulated people by getting away their right of choices, their emotions, colours, memories of the past, music, and everything that makes them different from each other and makes them to notices other people’s differences. With all of this important things in life that is relinquished from the citizens of this utopian community, the reader can feel that this is a complete opposite of a utopian society; this is a dystopian and destructive society.
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She further explains that we see many of these formats in The Giver, such as the precision of the language that word must be fixed and give exactly what it means; This idea is same in metaphysical expectations that word must be fixed and direct to the point. She also mentions that in today’s society people tempted toward the metaphysical idea of the sameness such as in North American, fundamental Christianity, looks to remove differences in the sexual orientation, in the favour of the “sameness” heteronormativity. She also talks about Ralph Tyler who created the standardized test that is derived to be in the logical form from the needs of society with rational format of control inputs leading to the control outputs. She explains that standardized test eliminates creativity and differences and reduce learning to the sameness. She mentions the consequences of this type of learning is labelling children with normal to abnormal and also ignoring the groups whose race, sexual orientation, gender and their ability are not conform to other