But surely the story of the feeding of the four thousand is not about our need for better distribution systems or a more orderly society. (religion-online.org)
It is the persistence of certain defining characteristics in a very complex orderly society endowed with a preeminent linear society or «soul» (n). (religion-online.org)
In the case of The Giver, a story about a boy who discovers that his world has traded away free choice, human will, and emotion in the quest for a perfectly orderly society (the Community) both the movie and the book are targeted to adolescents and take on complicated ideas, such as when is it necessary to lie and to break rules? (gse.harvard.edu)