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The Giver Color
I would NOT want to live in the society of The Giver. There is no color in their society. There is also no weather and no landscape. The elders want everything to be the same so the world is plain. In The Giver, color does not exist in their world. The elders have gotten rid of it. When the Giver shows Jonas color he says, “You’re beginning to see the color red.” Jonas doesn’t know what the color red is. This means that jonas has never heard of colors, which means that colors don’t exist! The Giver tells him “at one time everything in the world had color as well as shape and size” In order to gain control of things,the elders got rid of things like color. Also, the Giver showed him a rainbow. He said, “Close your

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