A quote from Life Capsules (2024)

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"It was your first Stirrings...you're ready for the pills. '....he swallowed the pill...the feelings had disappeared. The Stirrings were gone." (37-39) This quote shows that there are no feelings in this society. The Elders make the citizens take pills to subdue their feelings.

Today's motivational quote: "The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you."

Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change (James 1:17).

Chapters 5 & 6

In the morning, Jonas tells about a dream he had and the feeling of desire that the dream elicited. Jonas's mother identifies the dream as his first Stirring and gives Jonas a pill to quell the feelings of arousal.

Jonas's parents recognize the wanting in his dream about Fiona as the first stirrings of the sexual urges that accompany adolescence, and his mother gives him a pill that puts a prompt stop to them.

In the story, older children are given daily doses of “medicine” to prevent “the stirrings” or deep emotions that develop naturally in adolescence.

He feels a great sense of loss. Refusing to live as a robot again, he knows that he can never go back to living without feelings (he has even stopped taking his pill for the Stirrings). He feels overwhelming sadness for his friends because they do not feel anything at all.