Williams' use of colors in “The Chimney Sweep” is not only added to the story for our imagination, all the meanings of the colors that are shown to the reader by the child's eyes are revealed and exposed from the experience or adult side of the story. Also, in this story the color white is used to show the purity of a person or their thoughts. Tom Dacre is depicted with white hair, meaning he is pure as he is almost just a child, but William brilliantly shows the loss of innocence in this seen as Tom's hair is shaved off, symbolizing his purity snatched from life . Although the colors are very symbolic in this poem, the few key words that the reader notices are also very important. William writes that when Tom was having his hair cut "he wept when his head, that lock like a lamb's back, was shaved," rest assured that the word lamb was not a mistake when it was written (lines 5-6). Mrs. Dianne Heath writes about Blake's choice of words here saying, "Moreover, once again the humans are shown Williams' genius ways as the lamb in this passage symbolizes the Christian theme of purity and Christ's sacrifice to humanity and of his father's temporal abandonment" (Heath 116 ). Although Blake is not comparing these children to Jesus Christ, he is drawing parallels in their lives, showing the reader that these children are sacrificed for their society just as Christ was sacrificed for all humanity. However, while God had to painfully turn away from his son for a moment to let him be the ultimate sacrifice for the sins of all, the parents of these children willingly turn away from their children and sacrifice them and their innocence to work without reward or Love. Clearly people today can see the flame of passion William had to rebel against the status quo, for his sacrificed and tortured people.