Diversity In The Giver

Imagine a society without colors, where everything is the same everyday. In her book, The Giver, Lois Lowry demonstrates that through diversity can create chaos, it makes the world a more beautiful and creative place. Lowry shows this in many ways. For example, from a young age children learn to conform to society’s expectations. Furthermore, the community is free of color and weather. In the end, JOnas ultimately searches for diversity outside of his community. Lowry illustrates that though conformity brings more order, it does not let people’s self-expression shine through.

Jonas’s community teaches children to conform to society’s expectations. Benjamin, an Eleven in Jonas’s age group is very successful. He spends his entire four years

In the end, Jonas decides to escape his conformist community to find the diversity for which he has been longing. When he travels beyond the boundaries of his community, he finds himself in pure wilderness. From lack of food and shelter, Jonas realizes he is “starving” and “weak,” words that are obsolete in his community. He can not help to think about how food has been delivered to his dwelling every single day. However, he realizes that if he had stayed, he would have been hungry for knowledge and freedom (172-173). Although, times are tough out in the wilderness, he enjoys the diversity that had been lacking in his community. He sees some astonishing sights that do not exist in the community, including animals such as deer and fox (171). Jonas ultimately decides that diversity makes life worth living. Through Jonas’s realization, Lowry demonstrates that while conformity is safe, diversity is worth the risk.

In her book, The Giver, Lowry demonstrates that though diversity can bring chaos, it makes the world a more creative and beautiful place. By following Jonas’s character the reader comes to realize the importance of diversity to humanity. It is critical that citizens celebrate their differences rather than being ashamed of