The Giver: Color Blindness

Although colour exists in ‘The Giver’, the people can only perceive a greyscale world. The reason for this is that they have been artificially induced to see only in black and white by scientists.

"Social justice is the equal distribution of resources and opportunities, in which outside factors that categorize people are irrelevant” (Pachamama Alliance). Inequality in gender, race, sexuality, religion, and possessions remain potent. While many businesses are working toward creating equal and just environments for all of their workers, many problems regarding race and gender still plague even the 21st century, and these efforts to combat injustice are not always readily and well received. Frequent theatre goers may be unaware that even the entertainment industry deals with discrimination against women and people of diverse backgrounds. Although on stage it may seem like new shows are bursting with diversity, behind the scenes there

Eye colour, or more specifically iris colour, is determined by pigments. The type, distribution, and amount of pigments in the iris is what gives colour. The hue and saturation of the iris colour are extremely highly correlated, which points to a biological explanation. Blue and brown eyes are genetically recessive, which means they can be predicted using DNA (Liu et al, 2010).

It is a wonderful thing to witness a sunset and see all the various colors that occur in our world. What would it be like if we didn’t view the sunset with all the beautiful colors that are perceived in it? According to Brown, Lindsey, Mcsweeney, and Walters, (1994) without factoring in brightness, newborn infants cannot differentiate between colors. This was found by testing infants in forced-choice preferential looking experiments or FPL experiments (Brown et al., 1994). It is astonishing to think that we haven’t always viewed the world in various vibrant colors. So at what point do we as individuals develop full color

Organisms possess several types of color vision depending on what wavelengths they are sensitive to. Humans are trichromatic, because their vision is formed by long, middle and short wavelength sensitive cones (Carroll, et.al, 2009). Depending on the environment, primates will have different variations of color vision. (Melin, et.al, 2017). Routine trichromacy and polymorphic trichromacy both track different food sources. Routine trichromacy is helpful for tracking down reddish-yellow fruit and seasonal leaves while polymorphic trichromacy is helpful for tracking down ripe fruits and insects (Melin, et.al, 2017).

Being able to see color is one of the things that make humans special but sometimes color can deceive us. Humans perceive color based upon the lighting and other colors around whatever the object they are looking at is. For example an apple can be seen as bright red if the colors around it are lighter or the light is hitting it straight on but the same apple can be seen as dark red if the colors behind it are darker or the light source is not focused on it

The ability to see color is something that many people take for granted. But, there are many people who go about life thinking that their vision is “normal,” when they are really experiencing their sense of sight through a color vision deficiency.

Being colorblind seems like a great concept because people would be treated evenly because there would be no favoritism caused by ethnocentrism or racism. The problems caused by seeing people by color are too frequent now and plays a big role in what is now called modern racism. Usually people part of the dominant group, have no problems with modern racism such as problems like getting jobs and the discrimination that comes with it. I feel as though if everyone was colorblind everyone could have a fair chance. Not only would it give those that have less chances because of modern racism. It could also get everyone together and people would not judge each other as much as they do now. It could help unify everyone of different races, gender, ethnicities,

As W.E.B Dubois once predicted that “the color line would one day become the foremost problem of the 20th century. The term color blind coined by Dubois was used to reference the racial segregation that existed during the slavery era. We learned earlier in a previous chapter about the in-group and out-group effect in society. People who usually tend to see others as indifferent from themselves results mostly in prejudices. Prejudices in our society refers to a negative attitude toward an entire category of people, often an ethnic or racial group. I personally don’t hold any prejudices against subordinate racial or ethnic group, however I believe that the reason why people prejudge frequently has to do with our ethnocentrism.

"We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others." The Giver, Jonas's mentor, said this quote. When the Giver voiced this, he had been explaining the concept of color to Jonas, who before then, had only seen a flash of red twice before.

Colorblindness is the inability to distinguish the differences between certain colors. In order for a girl to have the genes for colorblindness the father must be colorblind. Women mostly carry the trait instead of fully expressing colorblindness. Since colorblindness is a recessive trait the mother must carry the trait and the father must be affected. In the image at the bottom of the page you can see that in generation four person seven is an affected female. Above that in generation three her parents are a carrier female and an affected male therefore, she gets the affects of colorblindness.

Introduction: The gene that codes for red-green color blindness, the most common form of color blindness in humans, is found on the X chromosome. One in 12 males is color blind. In females, however, color blindness affects only about 1 in 200. Why is

When something is perceived through damaged lenses, nothing appears to be abnormal because everything is equally out of sorts. One way to look at it can be like looking at color blindness. Whether or not the color blind person knows that they cannot see color regularly is irrelevant, either way their perception of color is damaged everywhere they look. So, this life of color blindness is normal when it otherwise would not be to someone who has seen color before. This is just like Tony’s damage, even if he could recognize his damage, he would still see the world differently than everyone else. The problem arises when Tony’s perspective is the only one that the readers are allotted to. The reader may not even know that their interpretation of the novel is skewed because, through one lens, the default is that everything that is happening is normal. Nothing can be known to be true about the actual events that happened as they truly happened to Tony; nevertheless, it would be bias to assume that what is on the pages is what the story was from an outside perspective. Judgement needs to be suspended in order to come to a conclusion about one’s opinion of what truly happened, unless one believes that Tony’s account of his story was true word for word. It is no coincidence

Would you like to live in a society of people with the same color eyes and hair? In our society there are different people with different hair and eyes. The DNA is not the same. ”The Giver” shows us what a “utopia”looks like.

One of the highlights from this article is a developed pair of sunglasses that is known to temporarily "fix" color blindness, or allow the individual to see the world in colors they have not had the privilege to do before, for as long as they wear the glasses. For the author, these glasses enabled him to see "breathtaking" sunsets, but he doesn't think he'd miss them.