Making Choices
Color, love, pain, these freedoms are all connected, but could you ever think of a life without them? In the book The Giver, Lois Lowry creates this community that lacks sense of happiness or heartache. It's a town with strict rules and sameness, bland, and plain, almost nothing. The main character Jonas receives the power of feeling and seeing affection, discomfort,and his vision begins to morph into color. With these abilities, he feels the need to share them with his community. He and his trainer “The Giver” then make a plan to bring life to the community, ending in a scene open to interpretation. But the life in the community, before Jonas, was impure, A life without flavor or choice, a life not worth living. To have not the freedom of color, love and opportunity would be unbearable.
Red, blue, yellow, green, color is vital in the life we live. Color can swing thinking, bend actions, and cause reactions. It can inflame or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress …show more content…
Since we live in in a world far from Jonas’ with the freedoms of expression, full range of emotions, and the vividness of color, it is hard to imagine a life without them. These freedoms create our individuality and differences and without them we would all be the same. Which is exactly what the community in The Giver wanted, sameness, everyone equal in an emotionless way. Though some things were preferable, like no racism and drug abuse, but the things they did not have like love and affection are too important to give up. Living in a community without these freedoms would be lonely and difficult. Love and affection bring life to earth, they keep our civilization growing, without intimacy our society would fall apart. In conclusion a world without love, affection, mistakes, and choice would be a bland, boring life,with no personal
Color, love, pain, these freedoms are all connected, but could you ever think of a life without them? In the book The Giver, Lois Lowry creates this community that lacks sense of happiness or heartache. It's a town with strict rules and sameness, bland, and plain, almost nothing. The main character Jonas receives the power of feeling and seeing affection, discomfort,and his vision begins to morph into color. With these abilities, he feels the need to share them with his community. He and his trainer “The Giver” then make a plan to bring life to the community, ending in a scene open to interpretation. But the life in the community, before Jonas, was impure, A life without flavor or choice, a life not worth living. To have not the freedom of color, love and opportunity would be unbearable.
Red, blue, yellow, green, color is vital in the life we live. Color can swing thinking, bend actions, and cause reactions. It can inflame or soothe your eyes, raise your blood pressure or suppress …show more content…
Since we live in in a world far from Jonas’ with the freedoms of expression, full range of emotions, and the vividness of color, it is hard to imagine a life without them. These freedoms create our individuality and differences and without them we would all be the same. Which is exactly what the community in The Giver wanted, sameness, everyone equal in an emotionless way. Though some things were preferable, like no racism and drug abuse, but the things they did not have like love and affection are too important to give up. Living in a community without these freedoms would be lonely and difficult. Love and affection bring life to earth, they keep our civilization growing, without intimacy our society would fall apart. In conclusion a world without love, affection, mistakes, and choice would be a bland, boring life,with no personal