"Perfect World"

Authors note: This is an essay piece that was assigned that I wrote on the book The Giver.

Would you want to live in a "Perfect world?" Is there even such thing as a "Perfect world?" In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas the main character is against the government. In this world the government chooses your life, they choose who you live with, your job and everything. Jonas does not believe in this sort of nonsense; he feels you should be able to decide for yourself, but that can never happen without Jonas being selected to be the receiver. 

Being the receiver means a couple of things, Jonas doesn't know if he is ready for this commitment though. When you’re the receiver you must contain no emotion. What this means is you must stay the distance between your people. You cannot stay within a relationship with another person, and your family members. You must keep the memories that you are given, and share them to those who are in danger. With these actions a normal person would tend to have psychotic reactions, but since they live in a Utopian world normal is almost opposite.

A Utopian world is a perfect world; it's a perfect world where only the government wins though. Every decision that is made is by the government. There are only a couple people in the community in this world that can change things and that is the elders. The elders are like the "information gatherers," they are given all of the complaints of the people to change right and wrong, but the elders aren't really changing anything. The elders can’t change the memories or the events of the community that is held by the giver. The giver is the old man in the community, also known as the memory giver. To be the giver you must be selected to be the receiver, which is what Jonas must do if he wants to fix this Dystopia. He cannot fix the Dystopia until he finds some "dirt" or the problem with what happened to the government years ago.     

 Living in a perfect world could be chaos; it could also be "perfect" so you could say. When the government has control over everything though, life would most likely become chaos, which is nowhere near perfect. Even though you tried and did everything as hard and the best you could, things will never be perfect.