Have you ever thought of having no emotions and 40 pounds of birdshot on you wherever you go? Sounds like torture, right? Well, the people in The Giver and “Harrison Bergeron” have to deal with this every day. In The Giver, they are kept in a special community away from everybody else. In “Harrison Bergeron”, people are equal every which way. To them, all this equality seems like nothing. The quote by Samuel Johnson reveals a key idea that perfection is not always perfect in The Giver and “Harrison Bergeron”.
In “Harrison Bergeron”, everybody has to be equally great every single way possible. For example, in “Harrison Bergeron”, If someone is stronger than someone else, they have handicaps to make them weaker. If someone is prettier, they …show more content…
In this story, a council of Elders control the community by limiting their ability to live a normal life; The people are not allowed to express their feelings and emotions. This quote shows that perfection is not perfect: “‘If everything's the same, then there aren’t any choices!” (Lowry 97). This quote suggests that there is no such thing as perfection. The council of elders tries to make everything perfect by restricting people's choices. This made Jonas unhappy with his community because he wanted to make decisions on his own. In addition, in order for people to feel happy with their lives, they need to feel that they have control over their own choices. People are usually unhappy when all of their decisions are made for them. This was expressed in The Giver when Jonas says “‘I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” (Lowry 97). Jonas is feeling that he wants to be more independent from the community by making his own choices such as what clothes he wants to wear. He wants to have the power of what he wants to do. In all, everybody wants to have the freedom to make their own decisions and choices; nobody wants to be controlled by the council
In “Harrison Bergeron”, everybody has to be equally great every single way possible. For example, in “Harrison Bergeron”, If someone is stronger than someone else, they have handicaps to make them weaker. If someone is prettier, they …show more content…
In this story, a council of Elders control the community by limiting their ability to live a normal life; The people are not allowed to express their feelings and emotions. This quote shows that perfection is not perfect: “‘If everything's the same, then there aren’t any choices!” (Lowry 97). This quote suggests that there is no such thing as perfection. The council of elders tries to make everything perfect by restricting people's choices. This made Jonas unhappy with his community because he wanted to make decisions on his own. In addition, in order for people to feel happy with their lives, they need to feel that they have control over their own choices. People are usually unhappy when all of their decisions are made for them. This was expressed in The Giver when Jonas says “‘I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” (Lowry 97). Jonas is feeling that he wants to be more independent from the community by making his own choices such as what clothes he wants to wear. He wants to have the power of what he wants to do. In all, everybody wants to have the freedom to make their own decisions and choices; nobody wants to be controlled by the council