What does the word society make you think? Can it be conceived as positive or negative? Why does society work the way it does? Why do we live a certain way? In all likelihood, it is because we have the fear that standing out will deem us to be not understandable. Furthermore, we don’t like what we can’t understand. It is like the jock hanging out with the nerds at lunch, or the Goth hanging out with the skaters. We as a society would not accept this, we would start pointing fingers and staring blankly wondering what we are witnessing.
CONTEXT
In Very Far Away From Anywhere Else, Ursula K. LeGuin offers vast ideas of society and growing into adulthood in this book. Set in the United States, the story tells of seventeen year old Owen and his relationship with a high school student he meets, Natalie as it rises, falls, and rebirths. Society as well as its stereotypes and influence all shove Owen into one single path by not allowing Owen to think himself and become his own person.
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THESIS Ursula K. LeGuin conveys the idea of rebelling from the influence that society has on us in order to carve out and create our own paths in order to become who we feel we have the power to become.
VALUE
This idea is significant attributable to the fact that teens like Owen, and many other people
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“In The Giver” by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a young male living in a society in which emotion has been drained and society functions a certain way. Jonas becomes more and more involved in this idea, and once he reaches the end, he must then choose his own path, and either accept the society he lives in, or strive for something more. Similarly, Owen is faced with an ordeal just like this one, through the end however, Owen undergoes a transformation of consciousness. That transformation will allow him to become his own person and make his life what he wants it