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When Jonas first learns about colors from the Giver, he is so amazed by it and wants everyone to see. The next day, after given the ability to see red, he sees Fiona. To his surprise, she has beautiful red hair. This is a major significance later on when he is given the ability to love because then those two things goes hand in hand. Love an emotion that is absolutely unknown to Jonas, yet when he experiences it, he decides it is the most amazing thing ever because it made him feel "a little more complete. (p. 126)". Although color may seem like a harmless pleasure, people have been fighting wars over color for ages and in many places the battles are still going on. Where there is war, there is the blasphemy known as death. When loved ones meet death, it causes a lot of grief and sadness, in this thinking people took away the emotion of love to become emotionally detached to other things, and then the loss would not be so devastating. When the community also got rid of color, they also disposed of problems, such discrimination over reasons such as skin color. A world is definitely not perfect with wars, segregation, and grieving; but it is just as flawed without the magnificence of color and deep feelings such as love, causing world-wide perfection to be
