People need to understand suffering and pain to truly experience joy in life. This is the theme Lois Lowry teaches in her book, "The Giver". After Jonas learns that seeing beyond is the ability to see colors, he is told by the Giver, “We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” (Lowry 91). This illustrates the theme because when they chose to eliminate pain, suffering, and inconveniences in their world, through Sameness, they lost the joys of sunshine, sledding, and color. Jonas later receives a memory of a real family celebrating a holiday, and he learns what love is. Over time, family units were created and love lost meaning. When Jonas
