Chapter 22Now the landscape was changing. It was a subtle change, hard to identify at first. The road was narrower, and bumpy, apparently no longer tended by road crews. It was harder, suddenly, to balance on the bike, as the front wheel wobbled over
Chapter 21It would work. They could make it work, Jonas told himself again and again throughout the day. But that evening everything changed. All of it — the things they had thought through so meticulously — fell apart. That night, Jonas wa
Chapter 20"I won't! I won't go home! You can't make me!" Jonas sobbed and shouted and pounded the bed with his fists. "Sit up, Jonas," The Giver told him firmly. Jonas obeyed him. Weeping, shuddering, he sat
Chapter 19Jonas glanced at the clock. There was so much work to be done, always, that he and The Giver seldom simply sat and talked, the way they just had. "I'm sorry that I wasted so much time with my questions," Jonas said. "
Chapter 18"Giver," Jonas asked the next afternoon, "Do you ever think about release?" "Do you mean my own release, or just the general topic of release?" "Both, I guess. I apologi — I mean I should have be
Chapter 17TODAY IS DECLARED AN UNSCHEDULED HOLIDAY. Jonas, his parents, and Lily all turned in surprise and looked at the wall speaker from which the announcement had come. It happened so rarely, and was such a treat for the entire community when it