Equality vs. Sameness

Equality is a term that means different things to different people. Yet, sameness is often confused with it. Equality has more to do with your rights, whereas sameness has to do with outlook.

The Giver has the best example of equality. For example, every one gets an education, a house, food, water, and a family. Lois Lowry has used the word sameness to show that everyone looks the same and does the same things, and they’re also equal. A quote that shows an example of sameness is, “’Lily,’ her mother said fondly, ‘you’re very close to being an Eight, and when you’re an Eight, your comfort object will be taken away. It will be recycled to the younger children. You should be starting to go off to sleep without it’” (pg. 18 Lois Lowry)

However, Animal Farm doesn’t have as precise the language as The Giver does. There were no examples of equality, because the pigs in the book weren’t working as much as the rest of the animals. There weren’t any examples of sameness in Animal Farm either, because the animals didn’t act in the same way. Yet, in the end of the book, the pigs were exactly the same as the humans. Which does show an example of sameness.

In conclusion, The Giver has more precise language than Animal Farm, because the book has better examples.