Once again, I'm writing a post on The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing. There are so many things I can talk about from this book, but I promise this shall be the last.
This book takes place in the late 1700's. African-Americans were still kept as slaves, and Octavian basically is one. This made me think about the whole racist concept.
In this book, Octavian's professor said that color isn't real, yet an illusion. I disagree with this, but if there is really no such thing as color, why is there racism? Racism is based on the color of one's skin, and if there is no such thing as color, how come there is such thing as racism??
I believe anything see-able and something we can touch is real. Mirages aren't... Oh, I just realized that doesn't exactly make colors real... Whatever, I believe in colors. I sound like I'm talking about God! I like colors, though. They make everything more beautiful. What would the world look like without color?
Whenever I see an old photograph or video, I think "Oh my gosh everything was black and white! When did people begin to paint the world?!" Okay, I don't really think that, but I did when I was little. Still nowadays, I imagine everything from [back then] as black and white, not just as a photo, but for REAL. Awkward?
Basically, I can't imagine the world without color. That's like eating an Oreo without dunking it in milk. Everything needs color, colors are beautiful. Darkness is scary. I think Hell would have no colors, everything dark grays or just nothing at all. Just a blank page, me as a drawing in a world of nothing but white, running but never leaving, for drawings cannot move [I'm not talking about animation don't criticize me.]
There's this song I like a lot called Colors ~Melody and Harmony~ . It's about how people give to the world and how lucky people benefit and how they are grateful. I mainly thought of this song because of it's title and I wanted to share it. I like how it says about how we have good things in our life due to things kind and generous people have done. I suppose I can say the Civil War is one of them, so it has something to do with this post.
Right now, somewhere, someone
is in pain, all alone
Passing through a sleepless night
Until the light shines on your heart
Let’s nestle close together, so that we could sleep
Like a melody and harmony in love
For someone’s sake
we are here
Although we can only achieve small things
Even just for 1 second
We still want to stop all the tears in this world
And turn them all into smiles
Keep loving, and keep walking,
We’ve been believing that we will be able to convey these overflowing feelings
Even before we were born, we knew that we would meet
And that we would be searching for our dreams together
[RAP]
The moment when we are able to compose the sparkling sound
We will be able to forget all the sorrow
Melody and harmony
You are always by our side
Giving us courage and hope
Thanks to you
Thank you forever
These glittering feelings are your gifts to me
You’ve taught me how to support each other, to watch over each other
And that I’m not lonely
The love that was piled up
is riding on the melody
I want to convey it to you
Forever and ever
My music is my life
For you, for you, smile
Because our hearts will link together
My life is wonderful
Forever, forever
Starting from here
Keep loving, and keep walking
We have been believing that we will be able to
convey these overflowing feelings
Thanks to you
Thank you forever
These glittering feelings are your gifts to me
The love that was piled up
is riding on the melody
I want to convey it to you
Forever and ever
lalala…
Right now, somewhere, someone is in pain, all alone
Passing through a sleepless night
Until the light shines on your heart
Let’s nestle close together, so that we could sleep
Like a melody and harmony in love
From a human's viewpoint (and mine myself), color is a really important thing to society. We can distinguish what is what. Everything is beautiful. Colors can be a good thing, but can be a negative as well - as you mentioned, racism. However, racism is not only color; others can base you off of physical features as well. So even if colors don't exist, society will find other ways to discriminate others.
ReplyDeleteIf the world did not have color, then there wouldn't be a world. Black and white, as you have mentioned earlier, is a color as well. Even if all the other colors are taken away, what do we see? It isn't possible. If our world existed with no color, I'm assuming that everyone who lived would be blind.
Also, I am in Photography for Talent and develop black & white photographs for assignments. To be blunt, yes, they really don't look right since the only colors that remain are black, white, and gray. But there are times when you can infer the color taken from the photograph. Bats and dogs, if I remember correctly, have black & white eyesight, despite the fact that their senses are superiorly strong compared to humans. I always wondered if they'd appreciate looking at different kinds of colors, but they've never been taught such a thing. So, in conclusion...
You can probably live in a black & white world, as long as you've either never been taught about it or if you have lived there for awhile and gotten used to it. In example, you watch a Spanish movie in English but you don't like it when you watch it in Spanish (assuming that there are English subtitles). This is because English was your primary language, or because you first watched it like so and you already the it the way it is.
Anyways, I think your blog post really lets in opinions because of your thoughts; I haven't written this much since awhile.
Thanks ^^ I'm glad this helps to write long comments!!
ReplyDeleteYes, I suppose a world without color would be nothing... Although we cannot physically grasp it with our hands, we can with our mind.
Oooh... poetic :D
I wonder what it is like to be a colorblind person. I think the most common colorblind colors are red and green. I wonder if, to those unfortunate people, they only see green so even red to US is green to THEN or vise-versa. How confusing... Or perhaps they just appear black or grayish? Hmmm, Maybe I should look that up...
This blog post has a lot of potential. I hope you can revise this blog post for the week.
ReplyDeletePersonally, what I recommend:
- Try to answer your questions, or arrange them in a different way. There are a bundle of questions that seem answered, but it feels as if they ... aren't. We want to know your opinion (this can also allow more responses to this blog post)!
- Use more sophisticated manner in your blog post. (EX. "I like colors, though" can be turned into "But personally, I like colors.") There is too much personality, but less main ideas.
- Use comments to help fix some issues? (Hint hint.)
- Possibly research some topics? Such as racism or color-blindness?
---- Good luck!