The Symbolism Of Color In Lois Lowry's Gathering Blue

The book Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry is about an orphaned and disabled girl, Kira, and her adventure through a corrupt dystopian society. One of the main themes in this book is power and the corruption it entitles. The Guardians have complete power over what the villagers do, how they live, and where they live. Another article that reveals the same truth is titled “Political Corruption in France is Common”, written by Reuters international news. This article tells about the many types of corruption going on in the government currently. One of these examples is when the president-in-waiting was attacked by the media, so that he wouldn’t be elected into office. In the article it reads, “Francois Fillon was professing a devotion to jolt the

Aristotle once theorized, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” The book, “The Color of Water” describes the lives of James and Ruth McBride and their journeys to find this happiness. Both of these characters, among other characters in the book struggled for the majority of their lives with the issues of race. They felt as if they were caught between two different worlds; the world of blacks and the world of whites. These struggles left all of the characters feeling forlorn. In McBride’s memoir it is made clear that in order to find happiness, the characters must first be able to confront and then overcome the racial divisions that were so prominent in their lives.

Most people do not see color as simply the way something looks, however. They tend to associate certain colors with specific feelings, emotions and memories. (Dmitrieva) For instance, blue is most commonly associated with “feeling blue” meaning one feels upset or depressed, however, blue is

In the novel Salvage The Bones, the author, Jesmyn Ward, frequently writes about color. Specifically, she relates varying colors to different characters. The colors usually have to do with how Esch sees the character. This type of descriptive and metaphoric language affects the mood and how the reader views the person. Esch describes Manny, her past lover but the man she still fantasizes about, as being golden, and Skeetah’s dog China as bright white and silver.

Symbolism is one of the major elements in "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker. The woman's search for something she has never experienced is the symbolization of the mankind's search for love and happiness. The meaning of names, occupations, power, pants, cloth, words, eyes, frogs, starts, shell, stamps are only few examples of the symbols used by the author and are very important in understanding not only the characters of the story, but also global values such as love, power, mutual understanding, and authority over another person's life.

Colors are apart of our everyday lives. They help us on dreaming, creating and increasing youthfulness. The author used colors to illustrate an importance behind objects, emotions, and characters. The various colors symbolize location, character traits and appearances.

As we all know, color is the voice for the artist 's sentiment. It makes up the appearance of a picture. Color is the decisive factor in depths of the two-dimensional plane of the artwork, making the viewer feel physically and mentally attracted, or the context of things - the phenomenon the author wants to present. Colors have been around for a long time, but there is not a common definition for colors. And perhaps humans are one of the luckiest creatures that can identify colors. Often, the recipient 's eye knows a myriad of colors and colors that always change based on the relationship between light and perspective. In art, color creates a sense of

Color fills our world with beauty. We delight in the colors of a magnificent sunset and in the bright red and golden-yellow leaves of autumn. We are charmed by gorgeous flowering plants and the brilliantly colored arch of a rainbow. We also use color in various ways to add pleasure and interest to our lives. For example, many people choose the colors of their clothes carefully and decorate their homes with colors that create beautiful, restful, or exciting effects. By their selection and arrangement of colors, artists try to make their paintings more realistic or expressive.

Colors can invoke feelings for people. Certain colors are attached to moods. Red can represent anger, green sometimes represents envy and blue can represent calm or even melancholy. Much art, music, and literature is dependent on color to convey the intended mood of the artist. In the novel, The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby, a man with wealth, power, and possessions is on a quest for the dream that he will never attain. He cannot have all that he already has plus the true love of Daisy. Fitzgerald creates his own unique motifs surrounding certain colors and uses these colors to emphasize the futility in Gatsby’s quest for this dream. Through the use

Alice Walker wrote ‘The Color Purple’ in order to capture and highlight the hardship and bitterness African-American women experienced in the early 1900s. She demonstrates the emotional, physical and spiritual revolution of an abused black girl into an independent, strong woman. The novel largely focuses on the role of male domination and its resulting frustrations and black women’s struggle for independence. The protagonist, Celie’s, gain of an independent identity, away from her family, friends, work, and love life, forms the plot of the novel.

Colors are an essential part of the world around us. They can convey messages, expressing that which words do not. Gentle blue tones can calm a person and bright yellows can lift the spirits. If an artist is trying to express sorrow or death he often uses blacks blues, and grays basically he uses dreary colors. Without one word, a driver approaching a red traffic light knows to stop. Colors are representative of many things. In his novel The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses color symbolism throughout as a major device in thematic and character development. He uses colors to symbolize the many different intangible ideas in the book. Throughout the book characters, places, and objects are given "life" by colors, especially the more

Another example of how Lois Lowry showed that the absence of color contributed to the theme of the importance of color is by explaining that without color it destroyed the beauty in life, since color brought the colorfulness in life. For instance, in the novel, it states, “It was so ------ oh, I wish language were more precise! The red was so beautiful!” This proves that when The Giver explained colors to Jonas, and asked how he felt, Jonas could not even express how he thought of the color red, because he never saw that kind of bright and pretty shade, and it was really appealing to him. Therefore, the absence of color also lost the prettiness in life.

In a short story by Alice Munro, “A Red Dress 1946”, Color Imagery is used to represent the inner feelings of the narrator and how she wants to be blue. The narrator’s dream is to live a blue life, a life where she is just like everyone else. Munro writes, “when I was unaware of the world’s opinion. Now, grown wiser, I wished for dresses like those my friend Lonnie had, bought at Beale’s store”(1). Lonnie is able to buy things like her dresses from stores which just makes the narrator want to be blue. The narrator wants to be blue even more because of how Lonnie and many other girls can buy things but if she wants a nice dress she can’t buy it she

One motif I have noticed so far is that blue eyes represent the cultural beauty of being white in America. For example, Claudia resents the blue eyes of her white dolls, but Pecola strives to have blue eyes. She believes that is she had blue eyes people would see her with a different perspective and give her the reassurance of being beautiful to the white Americans. Pecola also believes that with blue eyes she would live a carefree life of a white middle class child. Morrison`s purpose is to demonstrate how we depict certain cultures and how we discriminate between white and black people. Throughout the book there is a great amount of detail regarding the lives inside and outside of the homes of black and whites.

“The Color Purple” written by Alice Walker is a story highlighting the values and ideals of the culture and society in the beginning of the 20th century. During this time period certain women were alienated from society due to their clothes, beliefs, and their actions. Although every woman in this book was alienated from society the extent of alienation differed depending on how their words and actions were perceived by society.