Allegory

I didn't want any black or whites per say, cliche, in my book. I didn't want gated neighborhoods because the characters in my book had places to go and people to see without looking suspicious. If I used the pages up explaining where my characters are from and what they're doing there, I'd be at the end of the story before I got to the action. If the people in my book had brown hair or blonde hair or black hair or red hair or blue eyes or brown eyes or green eyes, they would still scratch each other and poke each other in the eye and fall in love with each other.
They would still throw stones at whoever wasn't their color and when they ran out of whoever wasn't their color they'd throw stones at each other.