Dangers Of Conformity In The Giver

Through Speculative Fiction, composers expose us to witness unsettling worlds which guides us to understand the dangers of conformity. The Giver composed by Lowry is a powerful prose which demoralizingly elicits reflection within us towards the sacrifices made by the crafted dystopian community, culminating in the loss of individuality. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry is an incredibly thought-provoking book that warns us of the dangers of conformity. The novel presents readers with a supposed utopia-like community that discourages individuality, which ignites reflection within us about the dangers of conformity. Lowry's use of the characterisation of The Giver as a man who is defeated in terms of invoking change in his collective is evident. Through

This is crystallised when Jonas notices that like him, a girl he observes has “different, lighter eyes' ' and that “no-one mentioned such things, it… was reconsidered rude to call attention to things that were unsetting or different' '. Therefore, blue eyes become a symbol of uniqueness in the face of a society that relies on technology to ensure the oppressive ideology of sameness. Throughout this timeless speculative fiction piece, Lowry evokes a sense of courage within readers as we consider the need to dismantle the existence of dictatorships in our own world. Lowry offers an intricate evaluation of the dystopian trope of the oppressive government by elucidating to us the dangers of conformity through the characterisation of Jonas, who realises that his father’s job entails murder, “He Killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to himself.” Through the unsettling repetition of “killed” which magnifies the evolution characterisation of Jonas, the horror of the death of an infant is amplified. This highlights the brutal ability dictatorships - the “Elders''- have to strip humanity of core values such as