Making the World a Better Place : A Postmodern Dialectical Analysis of Sameness in The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry and the Philosophy of Humanity's Future in Dystopian Literature

Abstract

This dissertation identifies and investigates the concept of Sameness in the novel The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry, part of The Giver Quartet. The Giver presents a society in which order and conformity are favored over individualism and choice eliminating all individual differences and emotions. As an example of dystopia, the author imagines a strictly systematic and organized social order where people abide by the rules naturally and do not question the order under which they are forced to live...