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(The Giver) How is The Community a utopia or dystopia (not perfect) for Jonas and his family in your opinion. Explain and give one example from the novel. (quote and page number). 100 word

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The community is a dystopian society. The chief elders took away all sense of human-hood: race, pain, grief, sadness, and most importantly love. No families, no color, no differences is not being perfect its just taking away what makes people unique. Getting rid of everything that makes humans, humans and the world, the world is creating an alternate reality that can only breed destruction. Taking born rights, personalities, and differences, and then altering them to be potentially "perfect" can only lead to failure. You can't change whats meant to be and make it your own, it will always find a way back to normal. The brain and the body have functions and chemical reactions that aren't meant to be taken away. Feelings and emotions make us who we are, even war and terror make us who we are. Taking away the bad means taking away good as well, utopians are just a glimpse into fantasies, they aren't going to really work out since man was made imperfect. Perfection is not something anyone was born with.

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