Uniqueness In The Giver And Harrison Bergeron

Do you think it is a good idea to have everyone be exactly the same or have some uniqueness in their personality?

In The Giver and Harrison Bergeron, the “Government” (people in charge) have made it so they get to choose the citizens life or the how they live, they have limited personalities made up to be how they were told. But that changes all when the truth is revealed.

The quote by Samuel Johnson states that not everyone has to be unhappy and that it is much better to have only 3 or 4 people unhappy then everyone so then there is a difference in personality. The quote by Samuel Johnson Illustrates a central idea that no one should be exactly the same; Everyone has to have their own uniqueness, their own personality to show who they are by expressing it in Harrison Bergeron and The Giver.

The qoutes states the question of why have everyone be the exactly the same when everyone could be a little difference in personality.

“You Elevens have spent all your years learning to fit in, standardize your behavior, to curb any impulse that might set you apart from the group.” (Lowry, 51)

They spend years learning to be perfect and be just like anyone else. They make sure that any mistake possible is gone to prove perfection in the kid, to prove they are ready to progress in the perfection of adulthood. They try to make the kids be perfect at such a young age so they can be just like one another, perfectly the same, where no one is different or has a different lifestyle.

(Lowry, 54)

This example uses punishment in the form of pain to show the citizen has done something wrong. It shows how they handle and treat imperfection to the ones who have made a small mistake.

This shows that in The Giver, by Lois Lowry, shows how they treat the ones that are different than the rest of the