The Visible Light Spectrum
“Mr. Petersuh-uh-uhn…. I need a white crayon for the white parts of the map!”, my daughter’s classmate whines as she peers into her box of mismatched Crayons. “Don’t worry about coloring those parts of the map. White isn’t a color anyways…”, replies her sixth grade teacher. Uh-oh. Big mistake! The entire class is now in for an impromptu lesson in the properties of light and the visible spectrum, courtesy of the child of a laser student. Added bonus: elevated egg-headed status for aforementioned child.
“Excuse me, Mr. Petersen, but I feel that I must correct you on that. You are sadly misinformed. My Mom says that white is the presence of all color and black is no color! What of that?! Hmmm?” (Yes…my kid really talks like this. She’s 10 and she skipped a grade level. She’s quite loquacious. I wonder where she gets it from? But I digress…)
The flustered Mr. Petersen flashes my child a weak smile and mumbles something to the effect of, ”…technically, Jacki, you are correct. Just leave the white parts blank and stay on task!” Shame, shame, shame. The instructor has just dropped the ball on a wide-open opportunity for learning and discussion.
Never one to miss an opportunity to exercise her mind and initiate a discussion/impress her peers, my kid goes on to explain the basic principles and properties of light and color. This precipitates a wave of “no way!” and “how’d you know?”s from the inherently curious and doubly impressed group of sixth graders.
As she, in fits and giggles (true sixth grade girl fashion!), recounted the story to me, she re-iterated over and over that “most grown ups just don’t know ANYTHING!”. And I thought to myself, “You know…we might know a lot about some things, but she just pointed out one of the most popular misconceptions that abounds concerning light and the perception of color!”. White light is NOT the absence of all color! Black is NOT all of the colors all mixed together! (Remember second grade? When you ran out of black crayon and just scribbled all of the remaining colors together and got a muddy brownish gray at best? Uh-uh…never works.)
Thus, I have taken it upon myself to enlighten the rest of us “just don’t know ANYTHING” grown-ups on the subject of color and the visible spectrum of light.
Prologue: On page 4 the narrator says, “Personally, I like a chocolate- colored sky. Dark, Dark chocolate. People say it suits me.”(Zusak 4) This led me to believe the narrator is death. He sees life in color because he appreciates color more because his life is so dark and filled with death, color is in our lives and our souls will soon be filled with darkness and him and not have a colorful life.
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