Jimmi Hendrix said “anything not founded on truth will fall eventually; like a castle made of sand melts into the sea.” Throughout both past and modern societies, this quote has proved the truth can be hidden or its appearance seemingly changed, but ultimately what is truth and what is lies will be separated. In The Giver, Lois Lowry depicts a society that has been sheltered from all “bad” in the world and disguises murder, emotions and even death by renaming them, hiding them, and divulging only partial truths. In doing so, they only bury the concepts of truth and reality, placing their weight upon selected individuals. When the majority of the public is filtered from these vital aspects of life, they not only lose hold of reality, but of