Shades Of Grey Analysis
Pgs. 285 - 388
Shades of Grey
At the beginning of section four, Eddie travels to the Grey Zone with Jane. Once there, Jane introduces Eddie to Clifton, her brother who has been sleeping with Violet. Jane and Eddie haven’t been in the Grey Zone for long when the Yellow prefects, Sally Gamboge, Bunty McMustard, Penelope and Courtland show up unexpectedly. The yellows claim to have business in the Grey Zone, helping Eddie carry out his chair census as he will be leaving for High Saffron the following day and no one can be certain that he will return to ever finish it. While searching one of the houses, Jane signals Eddie to go up to the attic so he immediately volunteers to search the top floor before one of the prefects have a chance to go up there first. In the attic, Eddie discovers one of the supernumeraries, an old woman who is not only blind, but also …show more content…
is without the Mildew! Eddie finds this utterly amazing and mysterious.
Jane tells Eddie that he needs to convince the prefects to withdraw their efforts from the census because if they keep barging in to each and every residence in the Grey Zone, Jane feels that they are bound to discover at least one of the sixteen “unlicensed supernumeraries” being hidden in the Grey Zone. The prefects, while searching the houses, are willing to round up every merit possible for anything that seems to be against the rules however the discovery of a single supernumerary carries the penalty of twenty thousand demerits for each person who could have possibly known about it. For this reason, Jane feels strongly that if the prefects were to find a supernumerary and dish out demerits accordingly, they would never leave the Grey Zone alive.
Eddie and the prefects get into an argument about calling off the census. In the middle of the argument, mail is delivered to Penelope. She has received the spoon with the post code of Travis’ that Eddie had mailed to Travis’ family. He realizes that they had ordered that post code for Penelope before Travis died meaning that they must have killed Travis.
Later, Eddie gives the apocryphal man some Loganberry jam and asks him about the meaning of life. Eddie finds out that the apocryphal man is 452 years old and that, according to the apocryphal man, the meaning of life is to give the historians something to write about. Eddie finds out that Ochre and Zane were working together to paint the ceiling in Rusty Hill of The Something That Happened. The night before Eddie travels to High Saffron, Courtland stops by and offers Eddie his open return but Eddie turns it down and later gives it to Dorian and Imogen. Eddie comes to the conclusion that if you want to survive, “don’t rock the boat, don’t stand out, respect the chromatic scale, and above all don’t try to improve queuing.” Early in the morning before Eddie leaves for High Saffron, Violet sneaks into Eddie’s room and has youknow with Eddie who later finds out that his father had shown Violet the ovulation swatch beforehand because he wasn’t sure that Eddie would ever return from High Saffron and he wanted the merits he was promised as well as a grandchild. Violet had planned to carry Eddie’s child and marry Doug incase Eddie did not return, in which case, Doug would never know and Violet would still have chromatically dominant descendants.
Jane drives Eddie, Tommo, Violet, and Courtland to High Saffron in the Ford. On the way there, Violet gets into an argument with Jane and eventually lets the cat out of the bag that she had youknow with Eddie. At this, Jane is somewhat upset because she was starting to like Eddie. When they all arrive in High Saffron and eventually wander upon the flak tower, Courtland and Tommo decide to lock Eddie in a room with a dead woman, leaving him there to starve. Martha, a young “riffraff” girl frees Eddie from the room. He then finds Jane fighting Courtland and Tommo. Eddie kicks Tommo, breaking two of his ribs. The fight is broken up and Jane tells Eddie that, “this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.” She then tells Eddie that if he didn’t enjoy the youknow, it was okay.
Continuing on the way to High Saffron with Tommo having gone back to the Ford where Violet was, Jane and Eddie slow down behind Courtland and Jane shows Eddie that she can see in the dark and tells him that she is the one who placed the wheel barrow in his path. Jane then shows Eddie the Gordini swatch that gives them immunity to the effects of both good and bad colors also enabling them to see in full color.
Once Courtland, Jane, and Eddie make it to the piazza with the double life size bronze of Munsell, Eddie looks down and sees the face of a dead person and soon realizes that they are standing over countless dead bodies. He figures out that reboot is not a place where one is sent to be reeducated but instead where one is sent to die. This explains the countless number of spoons along the way as they are left by the dead.
Courtland quickly succumbs to the Mildew as he was not shown the Gordini swatch. Eddie learns that the Mildew is a color. Jane says the Mildew is a red-green color that she calls, “greed”. Despite Courtland’s near successful attempt to kill Eddie, Eddie cries and shows Courtland the Lincoln before he dies so that his passing is less painful. Before Courtland dies, he confesses that Sally Gamboge killed Travis.
Eddie finds out that Ochre and Zane were killed by the High Office because they were painting the ceiling in Rusty Hill. Eddie also realizes that this was the reason he saw Jane and Zane in Vermillion at the paint store. Eddie and Jane walk through a Yateveo grove and Jane pushes Eddie into the spread of a Yetaveo. While making his way into the digesting bulb of the Yateveo, Eddie’s life during the past four days flashes in front of his eyes before Jane cuts him out with the potato cutter. Jane and Eddie drop Courtland’s body in the spread of a Yateveo and he is eaten. They decide they will tell everyone that Courtland didn’t die from the Mildew but that he died a hero, trying to save Eddie from the Yateveo.
After Eddie is cut out of the Yateveo, Jane discovers a spork embedded in Eddies left buttock.
While walking back to the Ford, Eddie stops Jane and asks her to marry him and she agrees. Jane drives Eddie, Violet, and Tommo back to East Carmine in the Ford, racing to get back before all visible light is lost. Though she can drive in the dark, she doesn’t want to reveal that to Violet and Tommo. Eddie perches on the front of the car and uses the flares that Yewberry gave him for light the rest of the way home.
On the way back to East Carmine, Violet apologizes for what had happened earlier that morning and Eddie says that he will forgive her if she gives her 700 merits to Jane to which she agrees. Eddie informed Violet that he was going to marry Jane and Violet gets upset. Once back in East Carmine, the youths are scheduled to take their Ishiharas. Eddie meets Jane’s parents. His Ishihara score says he is over 87% red while Jane’s test results indicate that she is 12% yellow and 14% blue, making her a green. Since complimentary colors are forbidden to marry, Eddie is doomed to union with
Violet. Eddie finds out from his father that he was purchased color and that olden is not his real father. Eddie’s dad however married for love just like Eddie had planned to with Jane. Eddie’s father is going to become the new swatchman of East Carmine. He also plans to marry Mrs. Ochre, making Lucy Eddie new sister. Eddie is sure that Violet’s father paid the Colorman to alter Jane’s test scores.
Eddie wants to work for National Color and proposes that East Carmine become the leading spoon producers, using loopholes that the spoons will be sporks. This will allow them to pay for all the synthetic color they need within a year and should allow them to be able to host Jollity Fair within 3 years. Eddie gets an application for National Color
Eddie and Jane decide that Eddie’s marriage to Violet may certainly end up helping out in their grand plan, giving them more advantages.
Matthew, the Colorman is still suspicious that Ochre had a second accomplice and that Eddie knows who it is. The Colorman has also instructed Dorian and Imogen to take the train to Emerald city which is also the reboot train, meaning that they will die. The Colorman thinks Eddie knows this but Eddie doesn’t show it so the Colorman is disappointed because he thought Eddie would give away that he knows what is really going on. The Colorman now thinks that Eddie doesn’t know. This breaks Eddie’s heart because he almost went on that train and also because he now knows that Dorian and Imogen are going to die. But Eddie tells himself to remember what Jane said to him in High Saffron, many innocents would have to die at his hands in order to save millions more.
Shades of Grey
At the beginning of section four, Eddie travels to the Grey Zone with Jane. Once there, Jane introduces Eddie to Clifton, her brother who has been sleeping with Violet. Jane and Eddie haven’t been in the Grey Zone for long when the Yellow prefects, Sally Gamboge, Bunty McMustard, Penelope and Courtland show up unexpectedly. The yellows claim to have business in the Grey Zone, helping Eddie carry out his chair census as he will be leaving for High Saffron the following day and no one can be certain that he will return to ever finish it. While searching one of the houses, Jane signals Eddie to go up to the attic so he immediately volunteers to search the top floor before one of the prefects have a chance to go up there first. In the attic, Eddie discovers one of the supernumeraries, an old woman who is not only blind, but also …show more content…
is without the Mildew! Eddie finds this utterly amazing and mysterious.
Jane tells Eddie that he needs to convince the prefects to withdraw their efforts from the census because if they keep barging in to each and every residence in the Grey Zone, Jane feels that they are bound to discover at least one of the sixteen “unlicensed supernumeraries” being hidden in the Grey Zone. The prefects, while searching the houses, are willing to round up every merit possible for anything that seems to be against the rules however the discovery of a single supernumerary carries the penalty of twenty thousand demerits for each person who could have possibly known about it. For this reason, Jane feels strongly that if the prefects were to find a supernumerary and dish out demerits accordingly, they would never leave the Grey Zone alive.
Eddie and the prefects get into an argument about calling off the census. In the middle of the argument, mail is delivered to Penelope. She has received the spoon with the post code of Travis’ that Eddie had mailed to Travis’ family. He realizes that they had ordered that post code for Penelope before Travis died meaning that they must have killed Travis.
Later, Eddie gives the apocryphal man some Loganberry jam and asks him about the meaning of life. Eddie finds out that the apocryphal man is 452 years old and that, according to the apocryphal man, the meaning of life is to give the historians something to write about. Eddie finds out that Ochre and Zane were working together to paint the ceiling in Rusty Hill of The Something That Happened. The night before Eddie travels to High Saffron, Courtland stops by and offers Eddie his open return but Eddie turns it down and later gives it to Dorian and Imogen. Eddie comes to the conclusion that if you want to survive, “don’t rock the boat, don’t stand out, respect the chromatic scale, and above all don’t try to improve queuing.” Early in the morning before Eddie leaves for High Saffron, Violet sneaks into Eddie’s room and has youknow with Eddie who later finds out that his father had shown Violet the ovulation swatch beforehand because he wasn’t sure that Eddie would ever return from High Saffron and he wanted the merits he was promised as well as a grandchild. Violet had planned to carry Eddie’s child and marry Doug incase Eddie did not return, in which case, Doug would never know and Violet would still have chromatically dominant descendants.
Jane drives Eddie, Tommo, Violet, and Courtland to High Saffron in the Ford. On the way there, Violet gets into an argument with Jane and eventually lets the cat out of the bag that she had youknow with Eddie. At this, Jane is somewhat upset because she was starting to like Eddie. When they all arrive in High Saffron and eventually wander upon the flak tower, Courtland and Tommo decide to lock Eddie in a room with a dead woman, leaving him there to starve. Martha, a young “riffraff” girl frees Eddie from the room. He then finds Jane fighting Courtland and Tommo. Eddie kicks Tommo, breaking two of his ribs. The fight is broken up and Jane tells Eddie that, “this world, blighted and imperfect as it is, would be better with you in it.” She then tells Eddie that if he didn’t enjoy the youknow, it was okay.
Continuing on the way to High Saffron with Tommo having gone back to the Ford where Violet was, Jane and Eddie slow down behind Courtland and Jane shows Eddie that she can see in the dark and tells him that she is the one who placed the wheel barrow in his path. Jane then shows Eddie the Gordini swatch that gives them immunity to the effects of both good and bad colors also enabling them to see in full color.
Once Courtland, Jane, and Eddie make it to the piazza with the double life size bronze of Munsell, Eddie looks down and sees the face of a dead person and soon realizes that they are standing over countless dead bodies. He figures out that reboot is not a place where one is sent to be reeducated but instead where one is sent to die. This explains the countless number of spoons along the way as they are left by the dead.
Courtland quickly succumbs to the Mildew as he was not shown the Gordini swatch. Eddie learns that the Mildew is a color. Jane says the Mildew is a red-green color that she calls, “greed”. Despite Courtland’s near successful attempt to kill Eddie, Eddie cries and shows Courtland the Lincoln before he dies so that his passing is less painful. Before Courtland dies, he confesses that Sally Gamboge killed Travis.
Eddie finds out that Ochre and Zane were killed by the High Office because they were painting the ceiling in Rusty Hill. Eddie also realizes that this was the reason he saw Jane and Zane in Vermillion at the paint store. Eddie and Jane walk through a Yateveo grove and Jane pushes Eddie into the spread of a Yetaveo. While making his way into the digesting bulb of the Yateveo, Eddie’s life during the past four days flashes in front of his eyes before Jane cuts him out with the potato cutter. Jane and Eddie drop Courtland’s body in the spread of a Yateveo and he is eaten. They decide they will tell everyone that Courtland didn’t die from the Mildew but that he died a hero, trying to save Eddie from the Yateveo.
After Eddie is cut out of the Yateveo, Jane discovers a spork embedded in Eddies left buttock.
While walking back to the Ford, Eddie stops Jane and asks her to marry him and she agrees. Jane drives Eddie, Violet, and Tommo back to East Carmine in the Ford, racing to get back before all visible light is lost. Though she can drive in the dark, she doesn’t want to reveal that to Violet and Tommo. Eddie perches on the front of the car and uses the flares that Yewberry gave him for light the rest of the way home.
On the way back to East Carmine, Violet apologizes for what had happened earlier that morning and Eddie says that he will forgive her if she gives her 700 merits to Jane to which she agrees. Eddie informed Violet that he was going to marry Jane and Violet gets upset. Once back in East Carmine, the youths are scheduled to take their Ishiharas. Eddie meets Jane’s parents. His Ishihara score says he is over 87% red while Jane’s test results indicate that she is 12% yellow and 14% blue, making her a green. Since complimentary colors are forbidden to marry, Eddie is doomed to union with
Violet. Eddie finds out from his father that he was purchased color and that olden is not his real father. Eddie’s dad however married for love just like Eddie had planned to with Jane. Eddie’s father is going to become the new swatchman of East Carmine. He also plans to marry Mrs. Ochre, making Lucy Eddie new sister. Eddie is sure that Violet’s father paid the Colorman to alter Jane’s test scores.
Eddie wants to work for National Color and proposes that East Carmine become the leading spoon producers, using loopholes that the spoons will be sporks. This will allow them to pay for all the synthetic color they need within a year and should allow them to be able to host Jollity Fair within 3 years. Eddie gets an application for National Color
Eddie and Jane decide that Eddie’s marriage to Violet may certainly end up helping out in their grand plan, giving them more advantages.
Matthew, the Colorman is still suspicious that Ochre had a second accomplice and that Eddie knows who it is. The Colorman has also instructed Dorian and Imogen to take the train to Emerald city which is also the reboot train, meaning that they will die. The Colorman thinks Eddie knows this but Eddie doesn’t show it so the Colorman is disappointed because he thought Eddie would give away that he knows what is really going on. The Colorman now thinks that Eddie doesn’t know. This breaks Eddie’s heart because he almost went on that train and also because he now knows that Dorian and Imogen are going to die. But Eddie tells himself to remember what Jane said to him in High Saffron, many innocents would have to die at his hands in order to save millions more.