Sunday, February 21, 2016
Alex Kupp Bluets Blog
Section 38: "For no one really knows what color is, where it is, even whether it is. (Can it die? Does it have a heart?) Think of a honeybee, for instance, flying into the folds of a poppy: it sees a gaping violet mouth, where we see an orange flower and assume that it’s orange, that we’re normal." This quote really speaks to Nelson's overarching goal for this book. I think this quote challenges the reader to think of color in ways we haven't thought about it before. Falling in love with a color implies that a color has the ability to love back. And this book does a great job of showing the personification of the color blue through Nelson's hardships with love. Personifications is an interesting rhetorical tool which can foster a lot of emotion. The use of it in this book allows the reader to really think about people in their life and think about color and maybe even other inanimate objects with the same personification qualities. I also find it interesting to associate the color blue with all the somber things happening in Nelsons life. The choice of the color she becomes infatuated with speaks volumes about what the color blue really means.
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