Diversity In The Giver, By Lois Lowry

Have you ever wondered why diversity and choice is important or if sameness is positive or dreadful? In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, sameness in a way is good and bad, but they still have advantages and disadvantages. Sameness is good because everyone experiences the same thing therefore, no one in any way is greater than another, and feelings are completely diminished. Disadvantages include, no siblings that look alike Everyone, in my opinion, should have the right of choice and diversity. Diversity and choice are great because everyone can express themselves, everything can stand out and not be dull, and anyone can choose from millions of personalities. Sameness is available for everyone everywhere in the world as we know it. Identicalness, or sameness, is the lack of variety in something, and in The Giver by Lois Lowry sameness is dull. Repetition is used a lot in The Giver including how everyone experiences the equivalent situations so no one has any feelings greater than another’s. Therefore, In The Giver there are benefits and struggles because of sameness. In Jonas’ community, all and every type of feeling is diminished for the sake of the citizens. If the citizens were exposed to feelings a lot of things …show more content…
In Jonas’ community all but one sets of twins or siblings that look alike are killed to avoid confusion. Although, only Jonas and The Giver can experience colors everything is bland and dull to everyone else. None of the citizens don’t exactly know or have feelings to use. In Jonas’ community, all and every type of feeling is diminished for the sake of the citizens. Page 94 in chapter 12, in The Giver, states that “... There was a time, actually-you’ll see this in the memories later-when flesh was many different colors. That was before we went to Sameness.”This helps explain why sameness was put into place so that racism wouldn’t happen, although it woudn’t help