The Giver Color Analysis

How many freedoms would you give up for a peaceful society? In The Giver, the author fills our imaginations with a community where color, emotions, and choices of your own are nowhere to be found. The Giver is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas, who lives in the emotionless, colorless place called The Community. Twelves are given jobs on their communal birthday, but instead of receiving a job, Jonas starts his training with a man called The Giver, to become the new Receiver of Memory, which leads him to realize how much more there is beyond The Community. Jonas leaves with his baby brother to find what lays in Elsewhere, because he wishes to have more knowledge than the Community is offering. The line between public safety and personal freedom should be drawn closer to personal freedoms, the opposite of where it is drawn in The Giver. Allowing an individual to do what makes them happy, but …show more content…
The positive ways this influences people is that there is no discrimination again colors of skin, and so people are all treated the same. The negative ways are that no one can be their individual self, and no one can experience the bright and vibrant colors in the world. Color is cut from everyday life to suppress things that could cause differentiation, like color, to help meet the Community’s goal of sameness, and aimed to cut down on controversy. Jonas starts seeing color in chapter 12, but does not know what he is experiencing, for all he sees is objects changing their appearance. “He stared at them, and they changed. But the change was fleeting. It slipped away the next instant.” (p. 94). This was a breakthrough for Jonas; the moment the Giver explained to him that he was beginning to see the color red. Living life without color would be a bland and uninspiring life. Not only did Jonas’ Community live with no color in the trees or grass, but also no snow during winter nor excruciating sun in the