Jonas has seen beyond again. The first time was to see the
apple in the air and the second one was the audience at the ceremony. The third
one, this time, happened when he saw Fiona’s hair. He asked the Giver about
this and he told him to start seeing the color, Red. The second training started
with transmission of Rainbow.
The colors definitely reflect our lives. When I was young,
if someone has asked me what my favorite colors are, I would have answered “Black
and White”. So, at that time, all my things are just in black and white. On recall of my childhood until adolescence, I
was abnormally strict and stubborn and I might have tended to think things only
in black and white without moderate stance.
As time goes by, I’ve changed a bit. Now, if someone asked
me my favorite color, I can’t choose just one of beautiful colors. This is
because I’ve recognized the beauty of each color. Admitting the different
attraction of colors made my life more colorful and made me more open-minded. Not
dividing things in black and white, it is one of great qualities of human
beings to acknowledge and respect the differences. In addition, it would also lead
some values including the mind of great capacity.
However, in Jonas’s community, all the people went to Sameness
and they even abandoned colors. Let’s take an image of the world where people don’t
accept the difference. There can’t be any deep-intimacy or sympathy on human
beings as well as the creativity which can develop the society amazingly. Hell
NO!
Mother said, rolling her eyes. "He's so fretful at night."
fret·ful [frétfəl]
behave in a way that shows that they worried or unhappy about something.
Don't assume your baby automatically needs feeding if she's fretful.
He tried to shed the leftover dream, gathering his schoolwork.
shed [ʃed]
[VERB] [FORMAL] To shed something means to get rid of it.
The firm is to shed 700 jobs.
the other new Twelves were abuzz with descriptions of their first day of training.
a·buzz [əbΛz]
[ADJ] If someone says that a place is abuzz with rumours or plans, they mean that everyone there is excited about them.
The office is abuzz with the latest news.
He was very aware of his own admonition not to discuss his training.
ad·mo·ni·tion [ӕdməníʃən]
[NOUN] An admonition is a warning or criticism about someone's behaviour.
She ignored the admonitions of her mother.
"I apologi--" Jonas began, and then stopped, flustered, remembering there were to be no apologies.
flus·tered [flΛstərd]
[VERB] If you fluster someone, you make them feel nervous and confused by rushing them and preventing them from concentrating on what they are doing.
We were all flustered by the noise.
He was again sitting in that whirling world of snowflakes, atop the hill.
a·top [ətάp]
[PREP] If something is atop something else, it is on top of it.
Place pork steaks atop vegetables and tapioca.
Dumbfounded, he stared at it.
dumb·found·ed [dΛmfáundid]
[ADJ] If you are dumbfounded, you are extremely surprised by something.
I stood there dumbfounded.
I suppose the genetic scientists are still hard at work trying to work the kinks out.
iron[work] out the kinks
solve small problems, figure out problems so that I can relax, work through anything that seems wrong, deal with any issues that exist so that everything is OK
The group hopes they have a chance to iron the kinks out of the new production before opening night.
We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.
do away with
1.to get rid of something; to stop doing or having something
They've done away with the uniform at our school.
A lot of the paperwork could easily be done away with.
2.to make something no longer necessary
Computers have done away with a lot of the repetitive work.
The Giver looked startled at the certainty of Jonas's reaction. Then he smiled wryly.
wry·ly [ráili]
[ADJ][usu ADJ n] If someone has a wry expression, it shows that they find a bad situation or a change in a situation slightly amusing.
David Dunn has listened to the rumours with a wry smile on his face.
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