What Point of View Is The Giver Written In?

The Giver is told from the third-person limited point of view. This means that the story is told from Jonas’s perspective, and the reader is privy only to what Jonas sees, hears and says. The community in which Jonas lives is presented as a utopia, although Jonas begins to see cracks in its perfection as he nears graduation from his twelve-year training period. When Jonas learns about the true history of the world and the pain and suffering that exists outside his community, he begins to question decisions made by the Elders—the leaders who govern the society in which he lives. Jonas, the main character of Lois Lowry’s 1993 novel “The Giver”, realizes that the citizens of his community have been kept ignorant in order to maintain control. Jonas decides to flee the community with the Giver and another child, Gabriel. The three of them travel to Elsewhere, where they find a different kind of community. Eventually Jonas and the Giver return to the original community to help the citizens remember. In doing so, they realize that the community is better off with memories even though they are painful.