One of society’s favorite pastimes is to create divisions. From these divisions come stereotypes, and from these stereotypes come violence and from violence come wars… This continues today and has been going on since before your time, before my time, and “back and back and back”. Why does this happen? What can be done to stop it? In The Giver, many positive aspects of society were sacrificed in order for the negative aspects to be eliminated. Are violence and peace, love and hate, black and white, and other divisions all just a part of the balance or “ying-yang” of society? Or, could we work to take away some of the divisions to work towards a more “perfect” world (though, ultimately, never achieving perfection)?
