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The Importance Of Color In The Giver By Lois Lowry

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Let’s just take a moment to imagine no color,no feeling,no memories of anyone or anything outside of your town,and no freedom to choose what you want to do. “The Giver” by Lois Lowry is all those things I just described and so much more. It’s a utopian society with a deeper reality than said. Our society and “The Givers” society are almost completely reversed , yet they have some run of the mill similarities. Don’t be startled by what I am about to inform you about…. In “The Giver” they cannot see color and they have no clue whatsoever what color is. Pretty shocking am I right? That’s not all in this society,there are many things that may seem strange or challenging in this society but for now let’s stick to this one peculiar topic of seeing no color. I see the bright blue sky when I wake up in the …show more content…

Yet the women,men,and children wake up to nothing, not even a blanket with a variety of colors. They have no idea whatsoever about what color is or which color is which. In our society people wear vibrant clothing, have vivid selections of decor in their homes, and I don’t know about anybody else but I enjoy my kaleidoscopic apparel and room. Some people in our society like to wear brightly colored clothing, for example on page 98 of “The Giver” it states that Jonas said “ But now that I can see colors, at least sometimes,I was just thinking : what if we could hold up things that were bright red, or bright yellow ,and he could choose? Instead of sameness”. Sameness in Jonas’s society basically eliminated many future problems that could have possibly happen de to the seeng of color, but because of sameness some very marvelous

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