Lila Mae; Giver to her society

The way the "Intuitionist" ended reminded me of one of my favorite books, "The Giver", a short story by Lois Lowry about a boy from a strange futuristic version of our world where everything is equal and therefore "Utopian,"even down to the colors. The the main character, a boy named Jonas, is selected to become the next receiver of all the memories before the age of Utopia, memories of colors and music, memories of depth and variety. I associated Lila Mae with Jonas because to her as to him the world looks differently than how everyone else sees it. The way the giver gradually offers to Jonas more and more memories or knowledge as he is prepared to receive it is quite similar to the way Lila Mae and Fulton were gradually distributing the knowledge of the "Black Box" to a culture that was not quite prepared for its repercussions. Jonas realizes through his newly acquired knowledge that the society he resides in is not the Utopia he thought it to be. Jonas seems to make the same realization that Lila Mae and Fulton make and that is; even though distributing such knowledge will mean chaos for awhile, it is necessary for the world to understand what these individuals are already aware of. I also finding interesting that while in Lila Mae’s world color was a deep rooted societal issue; Jonas world showed that monotony or lack of awareness of color did not create a perfect world. There will probably never be a “Utopia” of human beings, they just change and evolve and this is done through knowledge.
-Elizabeth