The Giver Blog Post 2

When Jonas learns about colors, he claims "it isn't fair that nothing has color". Why does he say this?

I think that Jonas learned about colors and he thought it was unfair that nothing has color, for some reasons. I am thinking that he was saying unfair because it is not fun without colors. Also, there is no difference between things exept for sizes. And because of these reasons, I also think that it is really unfair for things to be seen as black or white exept for Jonas and the Giver.

First, if everything is seen without any color, there would be no meaning of it and people would feel nothing with it. Every color has a meaning. For example, color red is for passionate love, violence and warfare. But without colors, people would feel nothing whether the thing has a meaning of love or violence or warfare. And because Jonas now knows the function of colors, Jonas would feel that it is really unfair that nothing has color.

Also, when nothing has color, there would be no difference between things. In the world, there are variety of clothes that have variety of colors in it. And people might buy clothes that has his/her favorite color in it or because the clothes has color that fit for him/her. So without colors, people will not be able to notice the difference everyday. As Jonas perceived this too, he felt really unfair for the things to not have colors.

I think that there can be a lot more reasons why Jonas felt it unfair that nothing had color. Not even him, everyone would feel unfair about everything without color. And in my opinion, these two reasons are the major reasons why I think Jonas said "it isn't fair that nothing has color".