Lois Lowry has created a community that on the surface shows peace and harmony. However, underneath this tranquility it’s clear that this has come at the price of freedom, diversity and conflict; elements that enable communities to progress, transform and evolve. Lowry’s community is a representation of our world where everything that makes it unique has been stripped away in the process of creating what is believed to be a utopia.
In the community that Lois Lowry has created, freedom has been eliminated. And by eliminating freedom and diversity: opinions, different cultures, freedom of expression, ethnicity, and differing sexualities have been removed. The committee for example, has taken the ability for people to chose who they want to marry. “Even the Matching of Spouses was given such a weighty consideration… a spouse waited months or even years before the committee found an approved match.” (Pg 84) This is just one example of how the committee limits people’s choices within the community, leading to jobs being chosen for you …show more content…
All these communities are different and unique which creates conflict. Conflicts, arguments and differing opinions are the elements that help a community evolve. We can see that in Lowry’s community there is a lack of what we see to be advancement; that is, there are limited ethnic cultures, races and lifestyles as a result of the committee’s lack of tolerance towards these differences within the community because of the conflict that arises from these differences. In our communities, one measure of progress is resolving the conflicts that arise from differences, the ability to find ways to live together even though some or many of us are different, living different lives, holding different values, and sharing different cultures. Lowry’s community in The Giver highlights how important conflict is as a result of diversity and how the resolving these conflicts leads to
In the community that Lois Lowry has created, freedom has been eliminated. And by eliminating freedom and diversity: opinions, different cultures, freedom of expression, ethnicity, and differing sexualities have been removed. The committee for example, has taken the ability for people to chose who they want to marry. “Even the Matching of Spouses was given such a weighty consideration… a spouse waited months or even years before the committee found an approved match.” (Pg 84) This is just one example of how the committee limits people’s choices within the community, leading to jobs being chosen for you …show more content…
All these communities are different and unique which creates conflict. Conflicts, arguments and differing opinions are the elements that help a community evolve. We can see that in Lowry’s community there is a lack of what we see to be advancement; that is, there are limited ethnic cultures, races and lifestyles as a result of the committee’s lack of tolerance towards these differences within the community because of the conflict that arises from these differences. In our communities, one measure of progress is resolving the conflicts that arise from differences, the ability to find ways to live together even though some or many of us are different, living different lives, holding different values, and sharing different cultures. Lowry’s community in The Giver highlights how important conflict is as a result of diversity and how the resolving these conflicts leads to