“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” Ralph Waldo Emerson might have believed this, but the leaders in Jonas’s community didn't believe this. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry there is Sameness which stops individuality and crime to make a utopia. Although Sameness sounds bad there are advantages as well as disadvantages of having Sameness but which one comes out on top?
There are many advantages to having Sameness in Jonas’s community. One advantage is that there are no bad decisions. In the community everything is scientifically chosen such as their spouse and their job. This is good because in the real world people get divorced and quit their jobs all the
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The first disadvantage is how the people don't have fun because in real life we have fun like sleds, iPods, iPhones and iPads that have games on them that we find fun. There is also no knowledge of the outside world and knowledge of cool things like great scenery that in real life we have like the Grand Canyon. There is also no music in the community. Music helps people get through hard times, but in this community there are no hard times. That is not the only reason people listen to music — it is also to celebrate special occasions — but in the community there are days off that they call holidays but they aren’t.
Do the disadvantages outweigh the advantages of having Sameness? To most people Sameness is not good when they think about it. Our world works just fine with memories of good and bad but the people in Jonas’s community don't even have good memories, so that is one reason why Sameness is not good. Another reason is that they miss out on a lot of fun things like television, video games and trampolines but they are safe unlike the real world. In the real world there are many risks like thieves, disease and starvation so that is how it is debatable whether the disadvantages outweigh the