Sameness In The Giver By Lois Lowry

"Apathy is the same as war, it all kills you, she says. Slow like cancer in the breast fast like a machete in the neck." –Warson Shine. If someone can take the feelings from the human body, the remaining existence would be disparate than the beginning. Soulless and impassiveness. In "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, the reader can see the subjects such as different behaviors, rules, and perspective of a lifestyle. The government is working for the society to look-alike day by day, this is called sameness. Sameness is seen in every part of this society, for instance, all family has determined the number of the family member also genders of them, people wear same clothes which are in same assignment… Although some people believe that sameness has so many benefits, many believe that it should not be applied in communities because it prevents feelings and limits memories,

As a result, there is no love consequently, there is no sadness as well. On the contrary, feelings are special things that separating humans from animals. These pills restrain the emotions that humans have and they convert them into robots. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." (Helen Keller) through her dissertation, people who live in that society can not be allowed to use their heart, because of the pills. Similarly, in the novel reader can see that "It's just that... without the memories, it's all meaningless."( ) in other words, memories are important as it is indicated. Also in the book "… for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories…" (Lowry 162) the reader can see clearly the fact of being blocked by the pills. The word "grown" means that the feelings can perceive, because they are coming from his heart and as it is mentioned they felt by the