Examples Of Color In The Giver By Lois Lowry

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In Lois Lowry’s The Giver and in our society there are differences regarding color. In our society and in The Giver there are many variations in color, how we see them or who can see them. In Jonas’s society there is color, but not everyone can see them. Nobody is different from each other, they are all the same. If they were able to see colors then they would all be different. Nobody is able to choose or make decisions themselves.“If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?” (Lowry 97). On the other hand, in our society everyone can see color from the day they are born to the day they die. Jonas and The Giver are the only people in the society

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