Examples Of Perfection In The Giver

What is Perfection? Perfection is the "state of being perfect with no flaws" as stated in Mariam-Webster dictionary. In the book "The Giver" everyone is shown to be living a "perfect" lie of hiding behind the wall of a superficial life.I feel that perfection gives no one choices, perfection takes away the uniqueness in a person just to create the perfect utopian society. A utopia is a community which is said to "be perfect and ideal especially in law" stated from Webster's dictionary. Utopia's exist all over the world today, for example "Twin Oaks", "Twin Oaks" is an ecovillage that is mainly the goal to become more economically and ecologically sustainable which is almost very similar in some ways to Jonas' community. However, "Twin Oaks" does not take away all of the members freedom and allows them to do certain things under guidelines.

The book "The Giver" depicts perfection as no choices, no memories, no individuality which equals no pain and sameness. In the case of "The Giver" I feel that it is not fair that no one can be unique and they have to be like everyone else, the reason is it is not right that the elders are choosing for everyone to be alike and genetically modify the community members like taking away their ability to see color.Imagine if your whole life you had no choice and suddenly you were given an important job of enduring all the pleasant or unpleasant memories and protecting the citizens from these memories; that was how Jonas felt. He felt that he was given a job that not only one person should bare. A perfect community should be a community with no violence, not a community that despises you when you break a rule about helping people to ride a