Why was Ivy concerned with wiping the mud off of her yellow cloak?
In the 2004 film, The Village, the villagers wear yellow as a "safe" color to protect themselves against the creatures that live in the woods beyond the borders of their village. The color yellow is to show the creatures that the villagers mean them no harm and that peace is to be maintained between them.
Ivy Walker (who is blind) needs to breach the borders and go into the woods. It is revealed to her by her father that the creatures actually do not exist, but they were simply used as a scare tactic to prevent the villagers from venturing into the woods and going to "the towns."
Ivy still wears her yellow cloak. She falls into a hole and gets her yellow cloak covered with mud. Realizing that something is following her, she gets extremely nervous and frantically tries to wipe the mud off of her cloak to reveal that she is wearing yellow.
If Ivy knew that the creatures were not real, why was she trying to reveal the color of her cloak?
Best Answer
The Yellow clothes are a type of 'Elder Endorsement', a ratification or 'pass'.
The village guardians who dress up as the beasts know that if someone is dressed in yellow they have been given the Yellow cloak under the supervision of a village elder, so it is a sanctioned activity.
If someone is found wandering without one, it will be assumed they're not supposed to be there. It's unlikely the 'beasts' would harm her, but they'd certainly interfere and try and scare her off/back to the village. Ivy possibly doesn't know what they're capable of.
Of course, Ivy could at this point tell them she knows they're not really beasts and knows what they're doing, but within the narrative of the film her maintaining her cloak's yellow lustre removes that possibility.
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Is Ivy in the village blind?
Ivy Elizabeth Walker was born to Edward and Tabitha Walker in the small village of Covington. At an early age, Ivy lost her sight, and has relied on a walking stick to guide her.What color did ivy see in the village?
Mr. Walker says to Ivy that she \u201csees light when there is only darkness.\u201d I think she sees the color yellow when she sees Lucius and the color red when she sees her father.Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Concerned Carpenter Side Quest
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I know I'm late to the party but I think I have a better answer. When her father showed her that the monsters aren't real, he did say that they based them off of rumors in the past that there had been monsters in those woods. Before Noah attacks dressed as a monster, this line of dialogue is actually heard again (to represent the words in her head).
At this point, Ivy is afraid that the monsters are real, in spite of the fact that the elders had been faking it. She has reason to believe this too as her father said they were based off of past rumors and she is being chased at that moment. Of course, this is wrong because the monster attacking her is later revealed to just be Noah. This is why she was afraid to take off the cloak as if they were real maybe it would help her.
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