Becky Wright
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Author, Lois Lowry, in her novel The Giver she describes a community that has convert to “sameness” and that has also eliminated pain. Lowry’s purpose was to indicate the value of the relationship between pain and pleasure; also how important memories are. She creates a rebellious tone in order to recommend to her readers of the idea of, “If you feel something is terribly wrong, go beyond to fix it.”
Lowry moves to her novel by acknowledging the fact that the Elders (the government) has taken total control over the community; no one makes there own decisions. She creates a heartbreaking tone, and appeals to Jonas’ furious emotion when Jonas establish, “If everything’s the same, then there
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Lowry referenced the color red. The author introduce the quote, “He felt himself overwhelmed with a new perception of the color he knew as red.” Red can define various emotions, for example: love, passion, anger, furious, horrified, and ect. She uses red out of all the other colors since it is doubtless the most intense color. Jonas’, “new perception of the color he knew as red” basically clarifies he has a new outlook of the color red, which meaning emotions.
The color red symbolics all of the colors and how each can have numerous emotions coming from it. This justifies the reason in why the Elder had removed all the colors. Lowry would also similes the memory of the sled that The Giver gave Jonas. The author compares the memory of sliding downhill to receiving memories. She incorporated the quote, "It's like going downhill through deep snow on a sled," he said, finally. "At first it's exhilarating: the speed; the sharp, clear air; but then the snow accumulates, builds up on the runners, and you slow, you have to push hard to keep going and –" Lowry constructs that in the process of memories, they can be pleasurable at
The second example of red is found in the quote, “For a long time, it seemed forever, I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of rain.” Hurst contrasts Doodle to the scarlet ibis. Covered in brilliant red blood, Doodle had bled to death. The narrator transforms Doodle into the scarlet ibis in an effort to hide from the horrific truth that Doodle is dead. The image of Doodle is so gruesome, so Hurst tries to lighten the scene by making it sound more beautiful, by using words such as brilliant red. The narrator does not realize how alike Doodle and the scarlet ibis are until he holds Doodle in his arms, and he can feel his slender frame and sees the bright red blood on his body, which looks like the scarlet ibis’s
Colour is a symbolic material in various sections of the film, as it functions as connecting visual and thematic threads which allude to connotations of danger, love, passion shaping her as a dynamic, charismatic character. Lola's fiery red hair highlights her speed, as she nearly runs through the entire movie. There are scenes where Lola and Manni are together and are seemingly illuminating red light, which exhibits their love and passion. The colour red is symbolically used in the film to emphasize certain aspects of Lola's life that are maintained in the use of props. In the beginning, the call to Lola is answered on a red phone, which highlights the urgency of Manni’s call and sets the precedence for the symbolic use of red throughout the movie. The recurring motif of the red ambulance at the end of each run represents urgency and tension. The red accents the rushed plotline, the love between Lola and Manni, and the blood of them both.
Colors hold an empowering significance over everyday life. In Louise Erdrich’s short story “The Red Convertible,” the pages bleed with symbolism to send unsettling reverberations brought on by experiencing war, which causes post-traumatic stress and suicidal tendencies. The color red is used to personify the setting so that the dye becomes its own righteous character with good and bad intentions. Lyman and Henry live with a double consciousness by being a part of Native American and American culture. Erdrich encompasses both camps to appeal to a larger and diverse audience.
Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.
Lowry writes in a way that utilizes foreshadowing events throughout the story. An example of when Lowry does this is when Jonas is thinking about the apple that had mysteriously changed a while back. “But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit had---well, this was the part he couldn’t adequately understand---the apple had changed.”(pg.24) Later on, at another point in the story, Jonas has come to a point where he
Lowry uses the literary elements allusion and setting to express the theme thst memories and choice are worth the pain they might sometimes bring. There will always be a proice to pay when you have something that is wonderful and extremely special. Somethings no one should ever be able to take away from you such as being yourself and being
In addition, another connotation of red is danger. Red could be for-shadowing the blood that was to shed. It could also mean that she is calling the men into gambling “their jobs and money to the only girl (married) on the ranch”.
In literature, red is often associated with blood and violence. Four researchers, Erella Hovers, Shimon Ilani, Ofer Bar-Yosef, and Bernard Vandermeersch, studied colored symbolism and concluded; “Color symbolism is one of the symbolic frameworks used extensively by contemporary societies to convey information and abstract messages through material objects” (Hovers et al.,2003.) Through the use of colors, May vividly expresses the emotions of the speaker towards society, regarding the topics of warfare and education. He specifically selects certain colors, like black and red, to stir up emotions within Jontae. The colors create a symbolic image, ultimately leading up to represent the violent scenes taking place. May writes his fear; “I know how often red is the only color left to reach” (18-19), to show his apprehension for Jontae a young male in society surrounded by warfare. Red in literature often represents blood, sacrifice, and violence. Using colors throughout the poem, creates a more vehement atmosphere, in which Jontae is left to choose between warfare, and discovering his identity in an alternative
Many people believe that the color red signifies comfort and love, but in many situations, it represents a negative perspective. The color red is negatively presented in The Outsiders, a novel by S.E. Hinton. Hinton is able to illustrate this particular color motif by using the protagonist, Ponyboy’s experiences. Ponyboy is put through a series of challenges in the novel. During these obstacles, the author cleverly includes red to foreshadow and describe detrimental scenes. In The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton presents the color motif of red to portray danger, heat, and violence.
The color red is used in literature as well as throughout The Book Thief to display war, blood, and anger (Morton). Early in the novel, Death associates red with war, “The last time I saw her was red… Then bombs” (Zusak 12), Death uses the
The first memory the Giver transfers to Jonas, the main character, is one memory of going down a hill of snow on a sled. The sled also shows up at the end of the story during his escape from the old community to the new community where emotion and color existed and not just in dreams. The sled
Today’s society has many different associations for the color red. Red is most often paired with intensity, anger, and aggression. Red is often times a standout color, not modest at all. Policemen are told that when radaring, they should look for red cars first because
It is also strong-willed and can give confidence to those who are shy or lacking in will power. Being the color of physical movement, the color red awakens our physical life force. It is the color of sexuality and can stimulate deeper and more intimate passions in us, such as love and sex on the positive side or revenge and anger on the negative. Being surrounded by too much of the color red can cause us to become irritated, agitated and ultimately angry. Too little and we become cautious, manipulative and fearful.”
Lowry represent dehumanisation as a means of exploring the idea of feelings and emotions. Through her representation of this typically dystopian element, Lowry demonstrates that feeling and emotions are important because they fill us spiritually and empower us to form close relationship with the people around us so that we can overcome any obstacles. This is evident through her use of metaphor in “If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would lived a life hungry for feelings, for colour, for love,” (pg. 217) which occurs when he had a choice, he made the wrong one: the choice of leaving to elsewhere. Lowry's use of metaphor suggests that love is a certain feeling that leads a human experience what’s around
In the short story, “A Red Dress 1946” by Alice Munro, Color imagery is used for signifying a girls point of view of her world and her own self by using the color red which represents nonconformity. The narrator has only a slight interest in being red, but she really wants to be blue, just like everyone else. Munro writes, “When I was asked a question in class, any simple little question at all…that I had blood on my skirt”.(2) The narrator is just so nervous about being red she is thinking of bad things that can happen with the color red. She is thinking of all the bad times the color red could do a girl badly, just like a girls period could leak at any moment. In “A Red Dress 1946”, a short story by Alice Munro, she uses Color Imagery to show the significance of the narrator’s view of the color red and all the “Evil” about it.