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What Does The Giver Say About Sameness

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The Giver, by Lois Lowry. The Giver is about a boy living in a community with his family and friends with sameness being chosen in that community. Sameness is when everyone in one community are all the same, you don 't really get much freedom. Most things are chosen for you, like clothes, food, jobs/assignments, and even your family that you live with. When Jonas is chosen by the committee of elders to be the next receiver of memories (a receiver is someone who "receives" memories from unknown places and keeps them from getting to the community) , the old receiver shows him many memories about life, some calming and others painful. Jonas then learns about sameness after the old receiver (who is now called the Giver by Jonas) explains
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