This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Morgan Wick: red hair and blue eyes are borderline freakish... [Jonas] has blue eyes It has been years since I've read this book, but I didn't recall this bit. If it does appear in the book, though, it doesn't make sense if no one but Jonas and the Giver can see, or has any concept of, color. Hard to discriminate against red hair if you've never heard of "red".
Tabby: They're never called blue, but his little sister points out that he and the baby have the same "pale" eyes. And there is no discrimination, just Lily making this point and being roundly chastised for being rude enough to call attention to someone's differences.
Shoebox: The sequels make the point explicitly that Jonas' eyes, at least, are blue.
Morgan Wick: And "red" hair?
Tabby: Fiona has it, Jonas can see it, and The Giver observes that "We've never completely mastered Sameness. I suppose the genetic scientists are still trying to work the kinks out. Hair like Fiona's must drive them crazy."
Ununnilium: Taking out "(Don't worry — you will find out how, and it will not be pleasant.)" because it's redundant.
False Reassurance doesn't seem to quite fit, but there does seem to be a trope that Dystopia uses euphemisms for everything. The novel Never Let Me Go also does this, and I think there might be an example in A Wrinkle In Time. —Document N
Lale: So, new trope? Double Speak?
Dark Soldier: I had to read this in elementary school about ten years ago, and I knew the twist a few chapters before The Reveal. My youthful cynicism served me well.
