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Examples Of Sameness In The Giver By Lois Lowry

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What if everyone in your world was the same? In the book the Giver by Lois Lowry the community he’s created everyone is the same except for the reciever who holds all the memories of the world. I will be explaining why sameness is good, bad, and what sameness is to Jonas. Sameness is good because everyone is the same and nobody can be better than someone else. Nobody can see color or feel things in the commnity which means no one can see more or less than someone else and no one can be angry at at anyone. Jonas asks Asher if he sees anything different about the flowers and he says no because he doesn’t see any color pg(125). Jonas asks his parents if they love him and they tell him it doesn’t mean anything and it’s obsolete. pg (159,169)

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