The author portrays a feeling of forced perfection throughout the story to make them think it’s all sunshine and rainbows but its really anything …show more content…
(Vonnegut, 8) They built the image up in everyone else's mind but they even started to believe the image that they were portraying the world to seem like it was so amazing when it truly wasn't. I think that when wehling took the revolver out it kind of shook them back to reality and made them realize that they really aren't perfect and people still have disagreements especially when it comes to the whole kill a person per baby rule. As well as when the doctor tells wehling that his children were born and he doesn't seem very happy about it. (vonnegut,7) In order for his 3 children to live he must have 3 people willing to give their lives for his children and he only has one. When he was asked whether he wanted the world to go back to what it used to be he replied no but he doesn't agree with what's necessary to keep it the way it is. They're killing people in a cycle and they have no remorse for what they're doing because they think keeping the world from being overpopulated is more important than caring about taking innocent people's lives over and over again. They make the world seem all happy when it truly is anything but that. They also try to make him feel bad for not agreeing with what theyre saying and they aren't …show more content…
Perfect is something you can quite put your finger on, it changes from person to person from age to age from religion, ethnicity, where you're from it all depends on something and you will never be able to reach it. Maybe perfect to a baby is getting a nice nap but for a teenager it could be getting a good grade on a test. The vision of perfect is forever changing before you can even get a good look at it. That's why trying to make the world perfect is impossible because there is so many opinions from so many people all over the world you will never be able to reach everyone's perfect by the time its run away and completely changed itself to a whole new thing. Making mistakes is better than faking perfection because at least when you make a mistake you are able to grow from it and it shows that you are actually human and not some robot created to do the same things everyday and lie to someone's face every single day about how great the world is when you know it's really not like