Imagine a world where everything is the same. Where there are no choices, no emotions, and no diversity. Lois Lowry’s The Giver seems to touch upon the idea of an idyllic community and the dark truth behind it. It is a novel filled with sacrifice and the longing for emotions. Lowry sucks readers into the heart of the community that are trying to figure out if Sameness is a good community or a terrible one. But she has a deeper meaning. The effect that Sameness has on people leaves them without feelings but do the advantages overpower the feelings? It is worth sacrificing diversity and choice because of the numerous advantages that Sameness brings, such as protection, no poverty, and no overwhelming feelings. One critical advantage of Sameness …show more content…
In the community, several individuals carefully match up the Parents causing there to be no divorces, breakups, or arguments. “What if we let people choose their own mate? And they choose wrong”(Lowry 124). The right mates cause a positive impact on the child who then can prove a positive figure in the community. This is very important because the kids are very important to the next generation and “so and so and so on”(Lowry 125). Life without feelings does not mean a bland one. It also means a less hurtful life. In the community, people have been forced to never feel emotions. Citizens never really feel true love, but they also do not feel depression and terror. Depression can lead to negative impacts on society and can eventually harm the community. This shows that the community got rid of feelings not because they were good, but rather that emotions could have been harmful to the future generations. No citizen has ever committed suicide (asked to be released) because they have never been overwhelmed until the Giver releases Rosemary into the real world. This shows that the real world (a world with feelings and emotion) will overwhelm numerous citizens; therefore, it is dangerous to the