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Monday, October 10, 2011
A Perfect Community?
Today in class we continued reading the novel "The Giver". We came across it being a perfect community and I have to admit it is perfect but a little to perfect. Many of the rules the community follows prevents a lot of issues that our community goes through today. All these rules are good and help the community, but something about it being so perfect makes my skin crawl. It's starting to seem like their almost trying hide something. There is a lot of violence, teen pregnancy, bullying, and disabled families in my community and if we had rules like Jonas's community it wouldn't be this way, but I still think we all still have to keep in mind that everybody isn't perfect, and everybody needs to learn from their mistakes. My opinion, I don't like the fact of everything being so "perfect", that word just makes me feel so uncomfortable. No matter how great Jonas's community seems to be, nobody can convince me that it is flawless.
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Very interesting explanation of perfection, Ava. Is Jonas living in a perfect community? One needs to define perfection. As members of the human family, we are all imperfect but strive to be better. Perfection will only come in heaven. Think of this: just how perfect do you want to be and will that perfection bring you happiness?
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Thank you Sister Santa. Being perfect is boring. I agree with you, perfection does not always lead to happiness.
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