Perfection: a step towards dictatorship? No world can be perfect, because the only way to have an ideal world is to have no world at all. The reader soon discovers it in Lois Lowry's publication, The Giver. In this book, a boy named Jonas is taken on a journey in which he shapes his destiny through the decisions he makes and the trials he faces in a supposedly ideal world. One of them, while reading the book, discovers the fact that this so-called perfect world, because of its control over the emotions of individuals, because elders give up people's inalienable rights to privacy, of unbridled government control and the obsessive vision of community. made to order, is actually an example of perfection gone wrong. First, in the real world, emotions are part of a person's daily life. They shape daily actions, but when they reject the emotions of people in the community, what should they do? For example, there is a moment when Jonas makes a mistake and is broadcast on the communal intercom, “he remembers [the announcement] with humiliation, […] Jonas [was] still thinking about the incident. He is disconcerted by it” (Lowry 23). What Jonas feels is an illustration of how this plan seems at first to be a beneficial plan, but when we examine it enough, we see what makes this plan flawed. The downside of the plan shows that people like Jonas, during this announcement process, would suffer some sort of embarrassment, as Jonas expressed above, which could have emotional consequences. The initial plan is created to prevent people from repeating the incident through a process of embarrassment and humiliation, but in this perfect world it can be seen to become a discrete flaw in this system. Because if we are to receive a... middle of paper... develop inhabitants. But it shows that if they manage to get that smart, it's possible they could then cut power to the system. As the reader would also conclude, this appears to be a world of order, it is in fact just a tower of cards doomed to fall. As the reader will agree, this world of flaws in a supposedly perfect world is due to its influence on the characters. sensation, the elders retract everyone's right to privacy, the government exerts unbridled control, and their overly compulsive view of the arrangement, and a real-life example of leadership gift gone wrong. Although it seems that the world is completely blameless thanks to its inhabitants, when we really look at the government, we see in the end the world of The Giver, is not without its flaws. Works Cited Lowry, Lois. The Giver. New York, New York: Laurel-Leaf, 1993. 8-27. Print.