Gathering blue lowry6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When Matt returns from Christopher’s new home, he says that the new community has blue everywhere, and makes it clear that this community’s most noticeable quality is the compassion of its citizens for one another. While she’s alive, she sings a song about how blue never lasts. Kira’s mother, Katrina, who’s one of the few compassionate people in the village, dies of sickness. This is exactly what Lowry intends: blue symbolizes love and compassion. Because the robe is an explicit symbol of the society of the village, this would suggest that blue symbolizes an emotion that is particularly lacking among the guardians and the villagers. Blue is almost entirely missing from the robe. Yellow and orange are angry, hot colors (mostly because of their association with fire), while green and yellow are more peaceful (on the robe, they indicate eras of calm and happiness). ![]() As Kira becomes more familiar with the art of weaving, she comes to understand that different colors correspond to different emotions, and, conversely, that some feelings have a particular “color.” (This way of looking at color is called synesthesia). ![]()
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