Carried an apple home From the recreation area Jonas saw it turn to red, As traffic lights here do. Orange... Fiona's hair came and went He saw fleeting flashes of it But then she turned No, he couldn't understand. Later he met the Giver Who worked behind closed doors Jonas could 'see beyond' He said, an aptitude hardly anyone had.
That was when his training began.
'Oh,' Jonas said, He didn't want it any more The honour, the pleasure, he didn't think the injustice would've tore Unforgivable as it was Jonas also threw his pill away Soon after he absolutely knew it didn't matter, not any more. Receiver... He thought, with halting crescendo A burst of emotion helped him make his decision: Receiver...
I am no more. --------------------------------------------- (if there are no steps down the poem, apologies but there must be an error.) This poem depicts the feelings when he is growing up. This poem shows the anguish that he has when he is not understood when he has special sightings, as it was 'an aptitude hardly anyone had'. As he feels misunderstood, plus the fact that he is twelve and going through puberty, his stress amounts in a 'crescendo' which is 'halting' due to the fact that he meets several obstacles on the way, such as the pills which suppressed his feelings, which resulted in one less output for him to relieve his stress, as wrong as it might have seemed.
Also, the stress increases until Jonas reaches his breaking point, which is at the end of the last stanza, but the margin is back to normal, to signify that he had made his decision, which was to leave the community.
Also, there are disruptions in the poem, which is signified by when the margins go back to the end of the page. This is supposed to show that there were significant events in his life, such as when he began training as the Receiver-in-training. However, when he made up his mind to leave his community with Gabriel, who is not mentioned but can be found through contextual knowledge of the book.
Lastly, the poem is an acrostic one, which means that a word is used to form the backbone of the poem. In this poem, the title is 'colour', and I feel that this is relevant to the theme of colour in the Giver.
