” she makes note how the totalitarian power exhibited in The Giver towards their citizens can equate to various forms of abuse. The loss of emotion, color, and manipulation of history is not in order to maintain equality, but to insure total control of their emotional, mental, and physical state. By surrendering themselves to Sameness, they have essentially given away their sense of humanity, and are much more mechanical in their ways of living. Toma makes note of how their memories have become their…
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