some community issues could be things like whether or not to do Christmas caroling because of the pandemic, or loud chickens in someone's backyard. Things that bother some people, but are not big enough of an issue to be calling the police on.
What it's basically asking is for you to name two places within the book that you believed were the most important to the story and why. For the why it wants you to explain what was so important about these places that they made the character who they are now.
