This story illustrates the fact that when the normal balance of life and our environment is altered, we tend to gravitate towards the things that are normal in order to retain as much of that balance as we can. When the world changes color, the citizens gravitate towards the blue jay, which stays the same color regardless of the rest of the world. That lesson can be applied to any number of things in a child’s life, and it teaches children to look for the positive things in an otherwise negative situation. ( )