Part 1 of Essay
A solitary snowy crystal slowly drifts and whirls towards the waiting ground below. Its graceful decent symbolizes so much; the first snowflake of winter, cold, solitude, gloom, sorrow, the beginning of the end. In an instant, it's crushed within the merciless death-grip of progression. In one fell swoop we have rid our ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... the sake of the "happiness" of the rest of his perfect society, we learn that perfection comes at a steep price. The people in this story lost the ability to see color, to smell, or hear music. All in order to keep peace and avoid conflict. After dinner, families are forced to discuss their feeling with another and not allowed to keep any secrets. But this boy, Jonas, realizes just how shallow these people are. They claim anger, but have never felt the blood-boiling rage of a fatal injustice. They profess ....