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What is Jonas opinion of sameness in the giver Chapter 12?
He explains to Jonas that it took him years to come to the same conclusion Jonas did, that Sameness was not all it was cracked up to be. Jonas is told that he will acquire wisdom with the memories. The Giver explains to him that part of that wisdom is in understanding the community’s faults.
How does the giver feel about sameness?
In The Giver, Sameness is the ideology under which Jonas’s community operates. It is believed that the the community will be peaceful and stable through conformity, so the leaders enforce conformity through various means, such as causing all citizens to dress the same and have similar physical features.
Why does Jonas feel the sameness not fair?
Jonas understands this when he says that it isn’t fair not to see colors. He realizes that colors represent free choice, personal preference, and the fact that these things were taken away from the community in an effort to live with what the Giver calls Sameness.
What is the reason for sameness according to Jonas?
The people chose Sameness in order to control everything in their environment and their citizens, to prevent anyone from feeling discomfort. At first, Jonas does not see anything unusual about Sameness. Things are just the way they have always been.
What are 3 examples of sameness in the giver?
Here are some examples of sameness: There are no hills; the land is completely flat. The citizens don’t see in color, only in black and white. There is no weather.
What is the purpose of sameness?
The principle essentially involves a system of covert oppression in which citizens are indoctrinated into believing that they are all the same and, therefore, equal. The purpose is to establish, through conformity, a peaceful and stable civilization that is free from all man’s iniquities.
What happened to the giver’s wife?
It is revealed that Rosemary is the Giver’s daughter and became the Receiver-in-training after him. After experiencing all the pain and loss that were in the memories transmitted to her, she applied for Release and asked to inject herself, willfully committing suicide.
What memory does The Giver give Jonas in Chapter 11?
memory of sunshine
Jonas receives a memory of sunshine that is as pleasurable as the sled-riding memory. Confused, Jonas questions The Giver about the pain that he’d been told he would have to endure.