allowed to make choices or decisions, a council makes all decisions. All community members are assigned specific roles depending on their abilities. The worst part is this community has one person to hold their memories. Just imagine such a society! This is a community where there is so much order. Spouses are carefully matched and some women are given the role of being birth mothers.
Lois
Lowry provided me the imagination of a perfect community with no fear, pain,
failure or choices. This is a society that most of us will wish for. Taking a
keen look at this perfect society makes me appreciate this society even more.
Imagine having no blood relations with your own family yet your real family
remains anonymous. I would not wish to have no feelings at all or even a single
memory and also having a specific role for your entire life.
Our
lives are spiced up by the choices we make and our different feelings towards
people and situations. It is the choices we make every day that define who we
are. On the other hand, our different emotions and feelings are what make us
appreciate life, what we have and those around us. Without love, pain or fear
how would we know how we are progressing in life?
For
a moment I admired Lowry’s society. This was cultivated by the all the pain and
suffering that is in this world. Lowry’s imagination created a society that we
all desire at some point in our lives, having no feelings at all. This is an
unrealistic society and we would only know what is going on at the moment but
will not be feeling anything at all.
Lowry
made me appreciate my family and friends. I even feel that I care and love them
even more not as an obligation but from the bottom of my heart. Let us
appreciate what we have and the life we live because the alternative is ugly.
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