What Is The Community In The Giver

The Giver, a novel by Lois Lowry that gives you that hopeless, dreadful feeling of “I wish I could tell you, but I can’t. I can’t tell you why I can’t either”, explores the idea of a utopian community entirely run by a secretive higher power- one so secretive that the very concept of death is not common knowledge. In fact, the Elders (the higher power) gave death another name- release. The story follows Jonas, a “unique” boy who gradually learns that his immediate world isn’t as simple and perfect as he, among the majority of the community, believed. Later on in the story, after Jonas gets his Assignment (job) of Receiver of Memory, Jonas essentially watches a baby get murdered on a video, then proceeds to freak out, as a mentally stable person