The Giver Contradictions

In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the contradiction moment I noticed is that Jonas has been talking an awful lot about sameness and being unable to make his own decisions in life. That completely contradicts my thoughts on what he would be talking about. Before he became the Receiver, he never talked about sameness and making your own decisions. Now that he has learned about the past he is starting to question his society. I would have never thought that he would start talking and questioning his society and their rules. His actions and thoughts are what really contradicted what I was thinking. In the text, “‘Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.’” After The Giver said that, Jonas started getting feisty and starting asking of questions about why we changed to sameness. There it shows that he is actually understanding the concept of how we changed so no one could be different and everything would be the same. He started to understand that everyone was different and everyone could chose their own lives and families. He started

Then he smiled wryly. ‘You’ve come very quickly to that conclusion,’ he said. ‘It took me many years. Maybe your wisdom will come much more quickly than mine.’” This quote is saying that since Jonas realized this so quickly that he is understand the circumstances of sameness much more quickly than The Giver ever did. This also shows characterization, because it is showing him developing into a more mature boy, since he is figuring these things out quicker than he would have before he became the Receiver. Again this surprised me, because I never thought he would notice the fact that sameness was not good. I always figured he would get living by the rules instead of trying to speak out against