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After reading Chapter 12, it really helped me understand what the sameness was, but I'm still confused on a few things. Firstoff, how do they make everyone see in only black, white, and gray? Was it genetic manipulation? Also, they mentioned that people were all the same, and that they used to come in more "varieties of color." What happened to everybody of other races? Did they "release" all the people who weren't of a certain skin tone? If so, than the book just got a lot darker.

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The idea of sameness comes up a lot in this chapter. How there is no color. or not a lot of emotion. Like when they did the color activity. It enabled some emotions. Red made us think of less happy thoughts or angry thoughts. And yellow we thought of better things.

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In the community there is no colors that they can see. Sameness was a big thing in this chapter. Also they are trying to eliminate emotions and colors relate to emotion. Like in class when we did the color station activity. Also Jonas starts to see colors in the community. When the color is found out by Jonas he then realizes that everything has colors.

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I noticed that we learned a lot about sameness and their are are no colors, like how Jonas described the apple  also when they don't have colors there are not as many emotions. For example when we did the color activity it activated emotions, I'm curious what Jonas will think about when he sees the rainbow and what emotions it will trigger for him.

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I noticed that they don't have any colors and that when we did the activity we compared the colors of the image to certain things like emotion, without color nothing would stand out

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Throughout reading this chapter, I have learned many things about "Sameness". The Heads of the Community have gone to an extend to create the idea of "sameness". The issue that the Committee was trying to avoid was emotion. Like in the activity we did today, we felt different emotion. Red made us angry, then yellow made us happy. If people had these emotions, if would cause a disturbance in the society. All different types of people, would feel different emotions. The word different is completely opposite to same. In order to achieve "sameness", citizens can not be different ideas, or think differently than others.

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As I read through chapter 12 I realized no one in the community can see true colors. It's almost like they see blank. The only person who see's colors so far is the Giver but as the training continues Jonas will soon be able to see colors too. In class we looked a pictures with different color themes and listed different emotions they may have related to or memories that reminded us of these colors. From this we learned colors make us feel emotions and remember memories which they don't want people to feel in the community so they removed color to prevent that. This could be related to sameness because everyone is seeing the same things. What other things have they taken away from this community?

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Throughout chapter 12 we learn that everyone in the community cannot see any color except for the Receiver of Memories. I am still wondering what other things the community had to give up throughout the years, like what the Giver said...  "We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others." Jonas is seeing changes to different objects that have the color red but is not realizing it because he has not been introduced to color yet from the Giver. I think that the reason for not having color in the community is so the people do not have emotions or feelings that come from the colors. The Giver said that the community used to see color but that was before the community went to sameness. I am curious what is going to happen when Jonas receives the memory of a rainbow. Will he tell anyone about the color? What will he do when he realizes there is color to the world?

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During chapter 12 we learn a big thing about the recurring theme of "sameness." To find out that now nobody can see color brings up a question and a thought. What can color's do to disrupt the community and if this is what they are trying to avoid, feelings. How does color connect to feelings. But this also can be proven from the activity we did today. Those colors brought up memories from the past, feelings, thoughts. If this is what they are trying to avoid. Im curious what will happen after Jonas receives this memory of a rainbow.

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In chapter 12 we find out that the whole community cannot see color but the receiver of memory can. I am still questioning why the community chose to eliminate color and what harm would it have done if they allowed it. In this chapter Jonas is having a hard time describing what he is seeing which is actually color but before the Giver tells him that he is seeing color he doesn't know that. At the end of the chapter the Giver wants to increase the amount of color he is seeing so the chapter leaves us hanging, where the Giver is showing Jonas a memory of a rainbow.

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After reading Chapter 12 reaction, I noticed that the only people that can see color are Jonas and the Giver, I think that this must because of their pale eyes. I have noticed that the government of the community is trying do achieve "sameness" that they will go as far as to remove color from their community. It connects to our color activity because we can take so many things out of a picture because of its color and these people don't get that because of this idea of "sameness". I wonder what the goal of this quest for "sameness" by the government. Also, I wonder if the government does this to achieve more power by banning feelings to prevent a possible uprising by the citizens,

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As I read on in the giver I learn that they get rid of the idea and sence of color. I am curious what problems color would cause in a community, but as we were doing the color activity in class we pointed out that some colors related to emotions and feelings, witch are not present in the community. without colors everyone could think the same way creating the idea of sameness. No one in the community other then Jonas and The Giver understand the concept of colors and it's a thing Jonas can not forget. Colors are new for Jonas he had never felt or hear of anything like them and it's an idea that dated back from gereranations and generations but has became forgotten and unknown. As the Giver gives his knowledge to Jonas will he forget about them or remember them but not have them as a memory? Overall a community without colors gets rid of feelings and emotions creating the concept of sameness.

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After I read chapter, I have seen and noticed that Jonas is the only person in the community that can see color. This has me really lost. Why would they get rid of color just because of this whole idea of sameness? Colors are special. I mean everyone just seeing black and white makes everything seem plain, which is not great to embrace in life. Thanks to the giver, Jonas now has the power to see beyond and color, which the giver believed this even before his training. This is why he was chosen for the Receiver. Lastly, I like to say whoever is running the community doesn't want the people here to live a good life, and it needs to be changed.

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After reading Chapter 12, I am quite surprised that nobody within this community is able to see forms of color. That really jumped out at me, and it makes me wonder why they would go as far as to attempting to rid of color, just to have this "sameness" idea and way of life be in effect. It seems to be a great extreme and great length to go to,  to make a community simple yet complex in a sense. The fact that Jonas and the Giver are the only two in the community to be able to see color is amazing, and i wonder if the old man will slowly lose his sight of color as he passes on his memories.

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Because the community Jonas lives in has removed color, due to their desire for everyone and everything to be same, they have removed a crucial part of feeling. Without color, you cannot feel the same way. We accompany feelings with colors, and colors with feelings. It is harder to describe or associate things by what they would look like, or their color. Red is typically associated with anger or love, while blue is typically associated with sadness or peacefulness. If everything in this community has the same, generic color, then how can you have these feelings? How can you feel different emotions depending on the color of your surroundings? If everything around you is generic and has no color, what can you feel like? Wouldn't you just feel bored or gloomy, or would you have no feeling at all?

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After reading chapter 12, I have noticed that no one in the community, except for Jonas and the current Receiver, can see color. The Giver has noticed the power to see beyond, or color, in Jonas before he was even in training. This just goes to show how whoever is running this community wants the people living there not to know about their past or what it is like to live outside the community. The idea of sameness that we see in chapter 12 reinforces this idea.

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In this chapter it connect to our activity in class. How we used our emotions and immediate description to give to the pictures.
For example the field for me represented, Summer, Freedom, Joy, Happiness, and everything in the community is nothing but shades of grey. It was tremendously hard for Jonas to describe these colors as it was for him to realize that there had been something known as snow, which had been depicted due to climate control.

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Chapter 12 gives us more information on the sameness now knowing that citazins cant see color. I like how jonas talked about the color red because you cant describe a word thats sol perpose it to discribe outher things. Like describe wet the things that come to mind are words like moist and damp ang they just mean wet there is not dicriptive word for a descripion. Also I was suprized about what they do at the house of the old I knew that they trieted the elderly like childern but to beat old people with a stick for misbehaving.

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Chapter 12 is mostly about color and how no one can see it so I would jump to the conclusion that everything is just blank no nothing would be black or white either just no color? I think there has to be some sort of color just no one has to describe it. Today in our Period 5 math class we described colors and what we thin when we see it. We were asked for a emotion, memory, place and I can't remember the rest. The chapter just showed about color and how Jonas was confused about color and how to explain it.

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After reading the chapter we find out that no one in the community can see color. But I am still wondering why people decided to get rid of color, What problems would colors have caused if they still had it? Jonas was also having trouble explaining color which I can connect back to the color activity in class today. We could only describe color through emotion or places and seasons with the people in the community don't really have so there was no way he could really describe red.