The Giver Color Analysis

To live in a perfect world without choices, feelings, and detail wouldn’t make it a perfect world at all. Giving up my ability to see colors, feel love, and choose a family to live somewhere artificial would be giving away a part of me. No, it is not worth giving up choices to live in a perfect world. Color, love, and choosing your own family would be worth nothing to give it up for a perfect world. First of all, giving up the ability to see the colors would be something that I would never do. “‘ Why can’t everyone see them? Why did colors disappear?’” ( Lowry 120) This quote shows that people want colors, but to be in the perfect world meant that the ability to see colors is now gone. In The Giver, no one can see colors except for Jonas and The Giver. Color gives everyday simple objects their own detail. It classifies what that object is and what it looks like. If everything was colorless in the utopia, no
“ Like the Matching of Spouses and Placement of newchildren, the Assignments were scrupulously thought through by the Committee of Elders.” ( Lowry 62). This quote means that a person is given a family and are watched very closely to see who would be given to them. Talk about no privacy and also not having a choice of who you’re going to spend the rest of your life with. To be given a spouse instead of falling in love, not being able to make your own family, and not having your own children and naming them wouldn’t make it a perfect world. There can only be four people in a family with one son and one daughter. No one would be able to have more or less than two children and name them. It would be very sad for parents who want more that two children to live in a utopia and have that not be a choice. For two people to not even fall in love and choose their spouse would also not make it worth it to move to a perfect world and give up all of your