The Giver is a book by Lois Lowry that is about a society in the future. In the society there is no color, emotion, and weather. Jonas is the main protagonist. He is a teenage boy, and he is trying to rebel and stop the society's wrong doings. The society has no diversity. Everyone wears the same clothes. Everyone looks pretty much the same. Lois Lowry is trying to warn the reader about the future. She thinks that people should value uniqueness and the ability to be different from everyone else. She is also warning the readers about trends, and how they control the youth. Every family in the giver has been assigned. The format is two parents one son and one daughter. Some people might not want children and some might want more
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The one good thing about this is that the society is very high functioning. The bad things about it is that a person could be assigned a job with someone they hate. Also a person can hate the job itself. There is no diversity in the jobs because they are only filled with people that have skill in that department to. In Lowry’s warning this issue highlights the ani diversity and anti choice part of the warning because people do not assign jobs to themselves, and they do not work with different types of people. In the giver one of the first things explained in the book is how everyone wears the same clothes, and they generally look the same. That is bad because no one can express their actual feelings. There is also no diversity which makes the society dull and boring. With no expression there would be no one that is happy or the most part. If someone could not express themselves in today’s society they would probably go crazy. Nobody would be truly happy. In Lowery’s warning this example of conformity is highlighted with the inability of choice and diversity. With assigned jobs, sameness, and assigned families there is no diversity and joy. Insted it is dull and sad. People should take away that trends are not always good, and that being unique is better than being the
The one good thing about this is that the society is very high functioning. The bad things about it is that a person could be assigned a job with someone they hate. Also a person can hate the job itself. There is no diversity in the jobs because they are only filled with people that have skill in that department to. In Lowry’s warning this issue highlights the ani diversity and anti choice part of the warning because people do not assign jobs to themselves, and they do not work with different types of people. In the giver one of the first things explained in the book is how everyone wears the same clothes, and they generally look the same. That is bad because no one can express their actual feelings. There is also no diversity which makes the society dull and boring. With no expression there would be no one that is happy or the most part. If someone could not express themselves in today’s society they would probably go crazy. Nobody would be truly happy. In Lowery’s warning this example of conformity is highlighted with the inability of choice and diversity. With assigned jobs, sameness, and assigned families there is no diversity and joy. Insted it is dull and sad. People should take away that trends are not always good, and that being unique is better than being the