I AM Poem

I am smart and nice.
I winder what the future is like.
I hear a halftime whistle.
I see a soccer ball.
I want to become a professional soccer player.
I am smart and nice.
I pretend to be Messi.
I feel a strength.
I touch a soccer goal.
I worry about my skill.
I cry about my dog.
I am smart and nice.
I understand I can improve.
I say the LDS church is true.
I dream about soccer.
I try to be good.
I hope to be happy.
I am smart and nice.

Giver

I actually really liked the Giver because, it made me think. It made me think of how much they changed humans and it made me ask the question, "Are they really even human now?" It also made me think of colors and being grateful to see them. The book also made me think of the world and if it was worth it to go into a utopia. Is it worth it to give up your humanity to have a perfect life. Who cares about a perfect life if you can't really even live your life the way you want to. Also I loved the ending which gave us the choice to choose. If you thought he died on the sled, he died. If you thought he lived and got to another community then he lived and is taken care of. It is your choice to choose what happened to him. In all I really liked the book.

Utopias

I think utopias are a bad thing. First of all the more they try to fix us as humans the more they take away from our humanity.  Or what makes us human. Like in the Giver's utopia they really don't have feelings so they took away from our emotions. Or our emotional personalitlies that makes every single one of us unique. Also they changed to sameness so they all look the same which takes away their differences that make then unique also. I know this because, at the Ceremony Jonas saw them and they all had the same skin color. Also the utopia took away from their choices. Like the comitee chose all of their occupations, who they are married to, and their children. Another thing taken away from their personalities is that since they can't see color they can't personalize what they look like. All of these things are important parts of life. The utopia takes all of this away to the point of what is the point to living. There wasn't in the story they were just going through daily routines that didn't even matter.