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SAMENESS VS. CHOICE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - “He [Jonas] knew he had to tell it all, that it was not only all right but necessary to tell all of a dream. So he forced himself to relate the part that made him uneasy” (Lowry 34).
        
        This quote shows, that everything/everyone in the community is expected to do their job correctly . One bad mistake reflects badly on all of them .
        
        " each such error reflected negatively on his parents guidence and infringed on the Communities sense of order and sucsess " chapter 6
      - " A name designated Not -to - Be - Spoken indicated the highest degree of disgrace "
        Chapter 9
        
        This connects to the sense of order in the novel since it depicts how strict the rules are and how the citizens follow them.
- - - - Instead, they are controlled by restrictions that keep them from making there own choice. Choice is not something they have.
        
        No one had the choice to do anything. All choices about the community were made in the past when Sameness was created.
        
        When Jonas learn about memory, he realizes that choice is essential to human happiness. Choice, he learns, is power.
        
        He makes the choice when he decides to escape from the community and take Gabriel with him.
        
        “The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things."
        
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        Because no one had a choice, no one feels the consequences of poor actions, but they also lose out on the joy that comes with making good ones.
        
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        Because no one had a choice, no one feels the consequences of poor actions, but they also lose out on the joy that comes with making good ones.
        
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