“The idea of a perfect world is imperfect,” but this wasn't what was thought of in Jonas’s community, they strived for one thing, and one thing only, perfection. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the biggest flaw in Jonas’s community is their senseless attempts to create a perfect society; this is done by the wiping of memories and the even the deaths of imperfect babies.

In Jonas’s community, they have an absurd idea of wiping away memories ;like sorrow and war. It had only been a few days since Jonas had received the chilling memory of war, on the day of the unscheduled holiday, Jonas finds Asher playing war and he has a mental breakdown, remembering the memory,“You have no way of knowing this… but it is a cruel game… in the past,” (pg 134).