Garden of Eden

Since the beginning of time it was declared that no man is perfect. It all started with decline of mankind in the Garden of Eden. After god had created the heavens and the earth he created man and man was devised by an evil serpent into disobeying god. Since this one choice we were giving free will and with it pain, struggle, hardship, and sin. The idea was created that "All men have fallen short of the glory of god." So we were reaped from the glory of a utopia by or earliest ancestors. Since that time many people have tried to found a perfect society, Adolf Hitler tried to create a perfect society first he got rid of all the cancers Jews, blacks, and the handicapped, then he tried to create a complete Arian race. He experimented on innocent people trying to inject coloring into their eyes, his passion for creating perfection led him to killing and touchering millions. The point is perfectionism kills. We in America are so judgmental and critical we try to paste our selves as having perfect lives when in fact in our heartiest of hearts were broken. In the book Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger the protagonist Holden is fed-up with people trying to put on this act like their own the world and they are perfect. Holden Caulfield,

the main character is trapped in a society that demands success and breeds perfection.

We see in the second chapter Holden detests the perfection in adult world his teacher tries to prepare him for "Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules."

"Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it."

Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right--I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game."