Sunday, December 7, 2014

Pills for Love


Jonas is taking volunteer hours in the House of the Old with Fiona when he started to think of her all the time. Like all the mornings, everyone in the family told their dreams, it was a ritual and Jonas told it first. Jonas was without clothes and he wanted Fiona to get into the tub without clothes but she just kept laughing even though Jonas was    talking    very    serious. 
Mother  told  Jonas that  feeling  was
named    stirrings    and  everyone 
needed to take a pill for it.

The most important day for Jonas arrived, the day when he turned twelve. An Elder    women started the ceremony but she skipped Jonas' name, everyone thought that the women had a mistake but she didn't. At the end of the ceremony the women announced that Jonas hadn't did anything wrong and it wasn't a mistake that she skipped his name, Jonas was selected for   being the next Receiver of Memories.  


While I was reading, this quote made me think that even though people, in Jonas' society, know something is normal, they try to stop it. "The feeling you describe as wanting ? Ir was your firs Stirrings. Father and I have been expecting it to happen to you. It happens to everyone. It happened to Father when he was your age. And it happened to me." "It's just the pills. You're ready for the pills, that's all. That's treatment for Stirrings." This made me wonder, why do people take pills for Stirrings even though they know they are normal? In our society we don't take pills for our feelings, we let everyone be who they want to be without anyone else telling them whats wrong and whats right. Finally, I think people can't be free.

 Love makes us who we are but, how can they be themselves if they don't feel. The Committee of Elders don't let people be free. One of the most important things is love but their society wants to be perfect and they pick specific people to be together even though they don't love each other. Elders want couples to be together because of their personalities and they don't care about love, they think it's a disease. In conclusion, I think people need to be free in order to be happy.  
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6 comments:

  1. UnknownDecember 8, 2014 at 3:27 PM

    hi lulu,
    I think that what you say about struggling is true for us but for them the normal think to do is to take the pills and don’t feel that. Is true that is normal to fell that but is also normal to take the pills.

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    1. UnknownDecember 9, 2014 at 7:24 PM

      Thank you Isa for your comment. You made me see this topic in a different perspective I hadn't noticed before.

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  2. UnknownDecember 8, 2014 at 3:42 PM

    Lulu, I really like your point about having to take those pills. Why do you think they make people take them? Do you think that maybe its because they want to hide their feeling for each other like Jonas' feeling for Fiona?

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    1. UnknownDecember 9, 2014 at 7:22 PM

      Thanks Ana,
      I think they make people take these pills because they want to control everyone. They want specific couples to be together and they can't do that if everyone fells in love with other people.

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  3. José Andrés Acosta y Daniela MosqueraDecember 8, 2014 at 5:52 PM

    Lulu, I found your blog very interesting. I really liked the part of the stirrings Jonas had. I also find it reaaly odd that they make everyone take these pills. It is an
    inhumane act, because the stirrings or feelings are what make us humans. It is unfair to take this feeling away from everyone in this comunity.

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    1. UnknownDecember 9, 2014 at 7:28 PM

      Thanks Dani,
      It is very unfair for everyone to take these pills and I also think that people should follow love, not follow the committee of elders. They are controlling and also planning their lives.

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