the author of the giver is making  the community very boxed in and isolated and concealed from everything else. the community is supposed to be a perfect envirement but to me it doesnt seem like that at all because rules create problems, and no rules create problems so either way there community cant be perfect, nothing can. this community just sounds harsh and cruel very unorthidox to run a society because people are assigned children, jobs, and partners which is just having your life chosen for you and is in no way perfection. in my eye perfection would be straight 90s and up in school, going to the best college, having a job that you love to do and having a beautiful family that you will always lave and care for. not to be bossed around and living in a world where mistakes are unacceptable. making mistakes is part of life itself.

THE GIVER

I began reading the giver, it is a very complex book with a lot of meaning under the words. It is one of those settings that give you the feeling that this little boxed in town is actually something more then just a perfect society. That behind the perfection and robot like citizens there is problems and issues so even though it looks as if it is perfection, it is not. I think Jonas is a special boy and does not share the same feeling as others, as if he is different from everyone, the way his mind works and he thinks. Even though i am only a few chapters in, the main idea the author is trying to make is that perfection is only a thought with in your mind it can never actually happen because the way your brain works your always going to do something that looks imperfect. Something i don't understand is why they call the birthdays ceremony's, and why do they have to be in the same classes all of there childhood that must almost make them nuts having to be with the same people every single day for 18 years of your life.

      I am reading "Mexican White Boy." From what I have read, the conflict seems to be that, his parents (mom white, father Mexican) come from such different backgrounds and ethnicity that they just didn't want to live together so his dad took off and it really set Danny back and hurt him. This summer he's going to live with his Mexican family by the border, which will change his life. He plays baseball, pitches a 94 mile an hour fast ball but nobody really believes in him or expects much from the brown messed up kid. His mom always finds herself to be depressed and sometimes he hurts himself to see that he's still a real person. His mom is dating a white buisness man and he and sister Julia are not happy at all about that and they don't really like him just because they love their mom and they feel like she's theirs, not some random guy's.
      I find this book to be a little racist in the sense that the mom says "I will never be getting involved with another Mexican man again only white" when diverse couples are common in America nowadays. Also, when Danny goes to visit his family, all of them get in trouble, arrested or they are in gangs, when Danny is a straight A student and doesn't get in trouble. So I think the author's view on Mexicans compared to whites is racist, but maybe he's just trying to make the main idea of the book that biracial kids and couples are fine, and if you love someone, it shouldn't matter about their skin tone, it should matter about the things that are important like personalities.
    My cousin had an African American father and a white mom. She has friends of all different racial backgrounds, so it really doesn't matter what your skin color is, and a lot of people in this world are quick to judge people of color but it's wrong to criticize another human being based on skin tone when skin tone doesn't mean anything. Your personality should decide how a person feels about you. As the great Martin Luther King said, "I hope that one day my children will be judged by the content of their character not the color of their skin."