The Giver, Chapters 1 to 7

my name is Jonas

Do peace and a lack of suffering lose meaning in a world in which war and suffering do not exist? It’s a heady question, and its tendency to appear in late-night dorm room sessions doesn’t undermine its importance. For myself, I would have always assumed that I’m on team “no suffering, no glory,” that I would always value the contrastive necessity of th…