Perfection: a step towards dictatorship? No world can be perfect, since the only way to have an ideal world is to not have a world at all. The reader soon discovers this in Lois Lowry's publication The Giver. In this book, a boy named Jonas is taken on a journey where he shapes his destiny through the decisions he makes and the trials he faces in a supposedly ideal world. One, reading the book, discovers the fact that this seemingly perfect world, due to its hold on an individual's emotions, elders retracting people's inalienable rights to privacy, government employing an unbridled grip on control and vision obsessive of the made-to-order community, it's actually an example of perfection taking a bad turn. First of all, in the real world, emotions are part of a person's daily life. They shape everyday actions, but when they repudiate the emotions of people in the community, what should they do? For example, there is a moment when Jonas makes a mistake and it is broadcast over the communal intercom, “he recalls [the announcement] with humiliation, […] Jonas [was thinking] about the incident again. He is disconcerted by it” (Lowry 23). The way Jonas feels is an example of how this plan appears to be a beneficial plan at first, but when examined carefully enough, we see what makes it a flawed plan. The downside of the plan is that people like Jonas, during this announcement process, would receive some sort of embarrassment, as Jonas stated above, which could cause emotional consequences. The initial plan is created to prevent people from repeating the incident again through the process of embarrassment and humiliation, but in this perfect world, it can be seen that this becomes quite a flaw in this system. Because if you want to receive a... medium of paper... develop inhabitants. But this shows that if they can get that smart there's a possibility that they could then shut down the system. As the reader would similarly conclude, this appears to be a world of order, in reality it is just a tower of cards destined to fall. As the reader would agree, this world of flaws in a seemingly perfect world due to its hold on the characters Sensation, the elders deny every individual the right to privacy, the government employs an unbridled stranglehold and their overly compulsive view of the agreement, and a true example of a leadership gift gone awry. Even though it seems like the world is flawless through its inhabitants, when we really look at the government we ultimately see that the world of The Giver is not without flaws. Works Cited Lowry, Lois. The Giver. New York, NY: Laurel-Leaf, 1993. 8-27. Press.