On Being Blue (Essay Sample)

On Being a Blue Jay Students Name Institutional Affiliation Course Number Instructors Name Date On Being a Blue Jay William Gass focuses on everything Blue. He illustrated how the color blue occurs everywhere. Based on Gass. the colors blue and green have the most range of emotions. You never see or hear a sad yellow or melancholic red. The author states that the color blue is in ice and water, as clean as a flower in flames, above and inside caves, enveloping the fruit and seeping out of clay (Gass). He further states that even though the color green seems to dominate, it would seem awkward to imagine green skies and green waters or green air. All other colors are fairly distributed but there is something about the blue color that seems to enliven every other color element from plain grey or shouting yellow. His view of the blue color is similar to the description of a Blue Jay bird which has brown pigments in its feathers, they have faces, bellies, and throats that are white and, black, and blue and white plumage on their wings and tails. However, its colors seem to disintegrate in light of their blue plumage. In the same way, Gass saw that the color blue seems to neutralize all other aspects of life. For Gass, the color blue centers the diversity of life by giving life and evening out the color spectrum of life which in this case shows our state of emotions/feelings thus he chose the suitable topic, “On Being Blue.”   Just like the Blue Jay type of bird, the book “On Being Blue” talks of the diversity of colors with blue centering the interior parts of life. Gass explores his romance with language by basing his argument on how the word “Blue” is pronounced. It is a pronunciation that plucks the lips outwards as if giving a kiss due to the “ue” sound. His superb imagination has managed to show that the way the word “blue” is pronounced by blowing air outwards shows the uniqueness to change color complexities. Similarly, the Blue Jaybirds have the same effects on major interior parts of life. They are intelligent birds who in their complex walks of life help to spread oak trees. This is a way of spreading the life of oak trees wherever they go thus increase on germination and plant life. In the same way, the color blue is associated with life forms from water to the skies (Gass).   Blue Jaybirds are intelligent birds that communicate through body language, and high-pitched screams and calls. They are said to possess a vast vocabulary which they acquire through imitation of other animal or human sounds to warn against predators. Similarly, in his book, Gass focused mainly on pronunciation and attaching meaning to words as a major problem. The writer began by analyzing the phrase blue and similar words such as blue, as well as the relationship between the words and concepts (Gass). The blue color, for example, is described as the name of the color. It assists people in learning new words. The discrepancies, on the other hand, lead to misunderstanding when a reader doesn't quite an articulation of speech correctly, causing the meaning of the words to be lost in the statement. According to Gass, the overall essence of such language is attached in a distorted, distant, and unintentional manner. According to Gass, words are like school kids' bathrooms in that they too are believed to be untidy, and so the value is embedded so that people can see through it. The blue Jaybirds are birds of culture they have specific times and seasons for mating and migrating, and specific family structures that are small in number. During mating seasons, these birds find partners and mate together for life just like human commitment to marriage. They have offsprings and parental duties are done in great love, responsibility, and equity. Inbuilt rhythmic, as well as alliteration, were two of Gass' approaches for presenting the evidence in the study. To begin, he employed a data study to describe the significance of words and their impact on the community in light of the research. Language carries information depending on the intended message to communicate with the audience (Gass). In that situation, inbuilt patterns are used to comprehend the correlations between words. Inbuilt rhythms are defined as the tone and rhythms of speech that occurs when a person pronounces a specific word. The author focuses on the word blue and the internal rhythm in this situation. There seems to be a minor variance and pattern whenever judging the color blue.  There are said to be four subspecies of the Blue Jaybird. These four subspecies all dominate different parts of the United States of America. The Nothern Blue Jay lives in the Northern parts of America and Canada, there is the Florida Blue Jay, the Mid-west Blue Jay, and the southern coastal blue jay in the southern and eastern parts of the U.S. all these different subspecies have different color plumages that mark them out as different and unique. In his book, the four elements of analyzing the sections are crucial because they assist ...