<span>When Jonas starts seeing the apple change. Before he couldn't see color, everything was black and white but once he becomes the receiver he starts seeing the apple is different and has the color red on it.</span>
You have described that the flower is purple, so you're describing the flower.
Thoreau begins Civil Disobedience by saying that he agrees with the motto, "That government is best which governs least." Indeed, he says, men will someday be able to have a government that does not govern at all. As it is, government rarely proves useful or efficient.
I think the answer will be the second one