Backwards helps Forwards

"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."

This quote tells that Theodore Roosevelt believes that is more important than to try then to do nothing. In the book "The Giver" Lois Lowry shows that memory is important, meaning that we do not do the same mistakes over and over again. Memories and Knowledge keeps us from going forward.

What is worth fighting for? Knowledge is worth fighting for. In the past, I see that man makes mistakes and never repeat them in future, but if knowledge is limited, the mistakes we make, will be the the same mistakes in our mind. In the book, Jonas leaves the community because the "Sameness" in the community, he seeks curiosity and a better "life". I feel that "Sameness" meaning the society never moves forward and nothing but the same thing.

In the book "The giver" the community does not keep the emotions such as poverty, hatred, etc. This causing a utopian society, 'Sameness" where there is nothing bad happen, only good, but I see a utopian society is something I feel that we should not accomplish, because in Jonas's community is already "perfect" and no new knowledge is being sparked. A utopian society is a society that is perfect but if its perfect, why not stay as it is, the major flaw of a utopian society. So both knowledge of the poverty, hatred, etc. will make not a utopian society but a excellent society, a society that moves forward and not move backwards. Jonas when he escaped the community, he feels more knowledge, he has the feeling of pain and finally feels hunger, this shows that bad memories come in and at the same time, we try to avoid these dangerous times, so when he starves, he finds a solution, a new idea, to hunt for fish to eat.

The book "The Giver" shows that knowledge in the community is important to make decisions. In the book, as the Receiver of Memories, Jonas sees the past and understands why its taken out of the community, but as the Receiver of Memories, his job is to use memories to control what to do in the community. Like when the air plane passed by, they were ordered to take it down, but as the Receiver, the Giver makes an order to wait before taking the plane down. When the Giver make the decision to not take the plane down, instead of following the opinion of the elders who don't have the same knowledge as the giver. The giver compared to the elders, he is more wise in decisions/action when facing troubles, the elders do not have the memories in the past like giving a person sometime to fly back. Even though the bad memories come, it helps our decision making. To me, I now think that the reason we remember the bad memories more than the good memories is because we do not learn from them. Bad memories shows the mistakes we done and how we can improve better and better. The memories the Giver gives to Jonas are the ones which is important and will help in decision making, not the happy slide through the snow ones.

Knowledge is key to success and decisions, we can not forget the pass but we have to live with it, living with it will makes ourselves a better person and better knowledge. To overcome the future we must overcome the past, the mistakes we have done and how we can make it better in future, knowledge is key to keep moving on.








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The New Book

If there was a new hope for earth, and new start. What would be one of the characteristics that I foresee in future. A future for New Earth I would like to see is a world that is controlled by law, not controlled by a human being, a fair trial. In this world we live in, we depend on people to judge what is right and what is wrong, but that is not really controlled by law. Law is neither man or a spirit, it is suppose to be both, both meaning not controlled by the eyes of the man but controlled equally, the law is suppose to protect a mans freedom and will from being violated. And when a man is sent to prison, he/she should not be subjected to a rigged judge.
When a man goes to trial, we do not know if he is suppose to go to prison for 1 month or 30 years in prison, it is up to the judge to give a fair trial which I see never possible in the hands of a man (us). 1 month might seem to short for a killer, 30 years might be too long for a killer (depends what type). I like a law that is both equal to both sides of the scale, because law is the judges eyes, judges eyes is never fair because he/she has the power whether to let this man out to be free, or to be kept in prison, and the judge could of been racist or bribed to do what he or she feels can do to the victim, that is man. The judge is never what is in for both. For example, back when black people where being oppressed by the white people, when the whites were racist to the blacks, we had an unfair law. When Rosa Parks was sent to prison just because she sat in the colored section. This tells that the law is not fair with the eyes of a human. If the law (not controlled by us humans) saw the action taken against Rosa Parks, it would of protected her rights and she wouldn't been harassed. The law is suppose to be equal on both sides and never controlled by a rigged judge. This what I see in future might solve many cases around the world and the reason why I chose it, I see that nothing is right in the hands of a human being, controlling that much power.