"The Giver" By Lois Lowry blog post

What would happen it we lived in a world where we lived off of rules and fear. What if we had to live everyday knowing just as little as everyone else, knowing something was missing from life but never completely understanding what that certain things was. This idea of a world with no difference is played with in the book "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. Jonas is forced to live in a world of sameness, unknowing of the past left behind by his society. Jonas is left in the unkown just like everyone else, well that is until he is chosen to become the new receiver and his view on his entire world changes forever.
            Sameness, was created in this community to create a perfect world in which no one knew of death, hungry, war, and everyone was treated the same. This idea seems pretty fair until you get into the consequences they cause in everyday lives. Once this idea of "sameness" entered this community many things were forced to be forgotten by everyone, that is until Jonas finally receives the memories of the past these memories containing all the things that were forgot by his community when they transfered to sameness. Thinks like the feeling of affection, colors,  seasons, the ability to lie, and so much more were stripped away from this community keeping them in sameness. With the power of the memories of the past Jonas tries to show people in his community that their is more to life than just living by rules and sameness, but how do you teach someone something that's never been done.
            The book introduces the reader to the idea that being the same and living by rules isn't all that great. In fact it seems to have more consequences than benefits from all that is taken away in the world your forced to live in. Knowing about a world where sameness is not what people live by makes Jonas restless and eager to change the way people in his society look at things in their everyday lives. But which is better, a life of sameness without feelings at all or a life of color and life and diversity but living with things like death and war?