Beggining In a ¨Perfect¨ Community

In the Story...

The ¨Community¨ as they call it, seems like a perfect place for Jonas and his family. But EVERYTHING is literally controlled. In this perfect world, you cant have a family by birth, the only way is by asking for one by doing an application. Children have lots of limitations, and depending on their age, those limitations start to change. But not only that, you cant chose what you will work on, everything in your life is planned, even your name is already chosen. Even though these rules seem to keep order, what they really do is take your freedom away.

Quotes From the Book

"Like animals. Neither child knew what the word meant exactly." This community is really different from ours. People don't even know what animals are, that means they have never left their community. These rules are made so that they dont know danger, because there IS no danger, that is why they doesnt fell fear. Another quote that brings my attention is "It was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals".  They try to prevent problems like racism or bullying by punishing people who point out differents. In this way nobody feels superior to nobody.

Final Thoughts

I think that even though these rules seem to take away a lot of freedom, what they really make isnt that bad. In our world we have problems like war, discrimination, and we also have lots of dangerous things. The community in which Jonas lives have rules that make all of this problems not to happen.
You need to do some sacrifice for solving things like this, is freedom worth it?