Humans want to communicate
Humans have/need a dream
Humans have a desire to help others
Humans seek happiness
Humans need friends/ Humans need companions
Humans want to learn/seek knowledge
Humans need to express their emotions
Humans can be ignorant and should be more aware
Humans are violent
Humans fight for what they believe in
Humans have conflict/war
Humans prevail despite conflict
Humans may abuse power
Humans evolve
Humans want to be remembered because most like recognition
Humans disagree
Humans may be discriminatory/racist
Humans like to make our lives easier and better
Humans like to help and fight against perceived injustice
Humans are curious and seek knowledge
In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, I learned that being different and having your own qualities is so much more important than being the same as everyone else. In this book, everyone lives in a society of sameness. A boy (Jonas) was chosen to be the “Receiver of Memory”. Being chosen as the receiver of memory, he is given the responsibility to store all the memories from the past. Since he has been living in this society of sameness emotions, color and memory are all new things to him. He has to cope with all the new information given to him and he see’s a whole new world he’d never imagine seeing. With the idea of sameness in this story, I learned that society should stop putting a standard where a certain ideal of a person is for the better. We are lucky enough to have our own qualities and are able to express our emotions. It has taught me that us as humans should be more grateful that we are living on this earth.
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