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Title: Appreciating Our Joy and Pain
Review: This is a truly wonderful depiction of mankind attemping to preserve only the "good" characteristics of life. Lowry clearly shows us the benefits of both worlds; in one world, suffering and happiness coexisted, in the other only "happiness" existed; in the former, life was sometimes unfulfilling and stressful, in this world, life is predetermined and stressfree. However, as Lowry expertly shows, if we let go of the "bad" things in life, the "good" things cease to have as much value. To Love without knowing what it is to Hate; to be Happy, without knowing what Sadness is; in some way the value of our emotions is lessened if we do not know what the opposite emotion feels like. Lowry helps us to see the many good things which exist in our world today...as well as the necessity of some "bad" things.
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