In the novel, Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, Jimmy is alienated because his moral beliefs contradicts that of society’s. Jimmy’s moral values have led him to be alienated throughout his life.He was alienated in his past for moral values and in the present for his way of acting. His moral values of people’s interaction with nature, stemming from his mother, caused for jimmy to be isolated from society and his current actions, of being separate from the Crakers, and his way of survival. Jimmy has different beliefs from everyone. Jimmy believes in genetic mutations, but he believes there should be a limit. He says when he is at Crake’s school ‘This is horrible,” said Jimmy. The thing was a nightmare. It was like an animal-protein tuber.”(202).