I think that maybe The Giver is about an old man who has no family and lives in the forest alone and some sort of an accident happened in the forest. Also The Giver might give people what they really want and make some of their wishes come true because on the book cover it shows a man with a long beard with wrinkles on his face and it shows a forest that has a little ripped part and maybe the ripped part means there was an accident or something scary happened.