In my Foundation English II we are reading a book called The Giver by Lois Lowry. I am sure some of you have already read the book, but if you have not, then you must check it out. It is a great book! The book is about living in a perfect world where there is no pain, fear or war. I would love to live in a world with no hatred, but I could not imagine not feeling love or pain. You ask…why pain? We would not know what happiness felt like if we did not know what pain or sadness was like.
I love to be happy…
The main character is a twelve year old boy named Jonas. Everyone in the community is assigned a role. When Jonas turned twelve he is officially consider an adult and assigned his permanent role in the community of The Receiver of Memory. This poor kid now has to receive all the memory of pain, love, hate and fear of the past so the community can live in peace. The whole community speaks by precision of language to prevent anyone from expressing feelings.
Imagine Sameness…..What would be the advantages??
The advantages sameness might have for a community would be the fact that people would not judge others. Everyone in the community would be equal and it would prevent hatred. When thinking of this I think of children in school. Whenever there is a child that comes from a family with financial problems the child seems to always get the brunt of the shame. The students around him/her are all wearing name brand clothes and have neat school supplies while the less fortunate child has hammy downs and the supplies are the basic necessities. Students of today don't think of hurting ones feelings so they continue to make jokes at the child which embarrasses him. This can cause lots of trouble and can continue in through-out his future. However the loss of diversity to me would not be worthwhile because diversity makes us individuals. Diversity gives us the right to become who we want to be in life, who we chose to marry and how man children we want to have if any. What do you think? Would you like to live in a world of sameness?
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