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 * Chapter 1 summary** **-** Jonas is feeling apprehensive about the Ceremony of Twelve. Once he goes to his family at dinner, they all speak their feelings about their day.
 * Chapter 2 summary** - Jonas's parents try to keep Jonas from being nervous by telling him about their Ceremonies of Twelve.
 * Chapter 3 summary** - Jonas and Lilly see a baby in the window and Lilly says that the baby's eyes look like Jonas's eyes. Jonas then talks about why it's rare to have pale eyes.
 * Chapter 4 summary** - Jonas goes to the House of the Old and uses some of his volunteer hours giving sponge baths to the old. He gives a sponge bath to an elder named Larisa and she tells him about two elders named Edna and Roberto.
 * Chapter 5 summary** - Jonas's family was doing the morning ritual by having everyone tell what they dreamed last night.Jonas usually didn't have dreams, but he did last night. When he told his parents about his dream, his mother and father told him that he was having stirrings and that he had to take a pill once a day, every day, until he went to live in the House of the Old.
 * Chapter 6 summary** - It is the morning of the ceremonies. Mother, Jonas, and Lilly go to the ceremony. The whole community is there. Lilly is becoming an Eight, and receives a jacket with smaller buttons and pockets to keep her own belongings and will do volunteer work for the first time. Jonas sits with the other Elevens to wait for his assignment. Father sits with the nurturers as the newchildren are placed. Gabriel is not ready to be placed, but gets a year longer to be ready. Jonas waits through all the ceremonies and lunch for his assignment.
 * Chapter 7 summary** - Jonas was at the Ceremony of Twelve listening to all the numbers being called before his number 19. Once the Cheif Elder finished with number 18, she skipped him and went straight to twenty.
 * Chapter 8 summary -** Jonas was feeling very worried about not getting an assignment. Then the Chief Elder called him to come up and said he would be the Receiver of Memories. It ended with everyone chanting Jonas's name as a sign of acceptance.
 * Chapter 9 summary -** Jonas had received his instructions on what he could and couldn't do as the Receiver of Memories. Jonas then started thinking of each rule.
 * Chapter 10 summary -** Jonas went to the place the previous receiver was and learned about what he was assigned to do.
 * Chapter 11 summary -** Jonas received three memories from the Giver, which were sunshine, snow, and sunburn. Jonas kept asking why they put these things away from the community and the Giver told him every reason why.
 * Chapter 12 summary** - Jonas asked the Giver what he sees when he sees in the beyond. The Giver tells him he was starting to see the color red and about how he will see many different colors in the future.
 * Chapter 13 summary** - Jonas was learning more and more things from the Giver and was learning the rules of what he could and could not do.
 * Chapter 14 summary** -The Giver transmits a memory of riding a sled to Jonas. Jonas crashes and breaks his leg, making him nauseaous. The Giver does not relieve his pain. He goes home and cannot share the memories with his family. Over the days the Giver transmits more and more painful memories but ends the day with a memory of pleasure. The Giver tells him the bad memories have to be preserved because they bring wisdom. Jonas wants to change things so that everyone shares the painful memories but the Giver says no. Gabriel is still not sleeping well, and Jonas transmits a good memory to him and he falls asleep. Jonas doesn't know if he did the right thing.
 * Chapter 15 summary -** Jonas finds the Giver in pain. The Giver transmits a memory of a battlefield where men and horses are bleeding and dying. Jonas is wounded and gives water to a dying soldier. Jonas wished for death himself, and then woke up in his own bed.
 * Chapter 16 summary** - Jonas was given the memory of Christmas by the Giver and found out what the feeling of love was. He liked the feeling and later asked his parents if they loved him. They only told him that he was using incorrect language. Later that night Jonas tells Gabriel things could be different in the community, if there was love. Jonas decides to stop taking the pills.
 * Chapter 17summary** - Four weeks after Jonas stopped taking his pills, Jonas, Lilly and everybody else had an unscheduled holiday and they got the rest of the day off. Jonas and the other kids played good guys and bad guys. Jonas never realized how horrible the game was until he remembered the memory of the civil war. At home, Father tells about the birth of identical twins. One will stay in the community and one will be released to Elsewhere.
 * Chapter 18 summary-** Jonas asks the Giver if he thinks about Release. He says he waits for the time of his own release. He tells Jonas about a Receiver named Rosemary who got memories of loss poverty, and fear. She applied for release ten years ago and the Giver never saw her again. Now there is a law so that Receivers cannot be released. Jonas wants to know what would happen if he drowned with a years worth of memories. The Giver says that the community would get the memories and it would be a disaster.
 * Chapter 19 summary -** Jonas tells the Giver he is curious about the Release, and the Giver says he can watch the ceremony on video since he is a Receiver. He sees his father weigh the identical twins and inject something into the smaller one's head. The baby dies and Father puts it in a garbage chute and waves goodbye. The Giver says he saw Rosemary's ceremony, and she injected herself.
 * Chapter 20 summary -** Jonas refuses to go home since he knows what Release really is. The Giver says things have to change and the community needs to share memories. They plan for Jonas to escape and never return, but the Giver says he has to stay to help the people deal with the memories. The giver will transmit memories of strength and courage to Jonas. The night before the Ceremony, at midnight, Jonas will hide by the river. The next day the Giver will vist another community and hide Jonas to give him a start on his journey. The Giver will tell everyone that Jonas died in the river and help them with Jonas's memories. The Giver wants to be with his daughter Rosemary after that.
 * Chapter 21 summary -** Father tells the family that Gabriel will be released the next day. Jonas decides to take Gabriel and escape instead of waiting two weeks like the Giver planned. He took food and rode at night, and slept in the day. He transmitted memories of cold so the planes could not find them with heat sensors. The more days that passed, the less the planes came.
 * Chapter 22 summary** - Jonas fell one night when he hit a rock, and twisted his ankle. He and Gabriel are starving, and he wonders if he should have stayed in the Community. It starts to rain and they are cold and wet and hungry. Jonas is afraid Gabriel will die.
 * Chapter 23 summary -** It starts to snow and Jonas can't get his bicycle up the steep hill. He uses memories of his family and the giver to give him the strength he needs to make it to the top. At the top, he finds a sled. He and Gabriel slide down and see lights in the houses below. He starts to hear singing for the first time. He thought he heard music behind him also.


 * Author's Bio: Lois Lowry** was born on March 20, 1937 in Hawaii. She was the middle child of three children. Her older sister, Helen, died at the age of 28, which inspired one of her books. Since Lowry's father was in the military, she moved all over the US and other countries. She went to Junior High in Tokyo and went to High School in New York. She attended Brown University for two years and then married Donald Lowry in 1956 at the age of 19. They had four children, two girls and two boys. After her children got older, she finished her degree in English Literature at the University of Southern Maine in 1972. She began graduate work and learned photography. She specialized in children's photography and worked as a freelance journalist. She wrote and article for //Redbook Magazine// which got attention from an editor at Houghton Mifflin. The editor suggested she write a children's book. She then wrote A Summer To Die, about her experience with her sister's death, in 1977. She divorced her husband when she was 40 years old. She wrote a series of eight books about Anastasia, a ten year old girl who wanted to be a writer. She wrote many more books over thirty years, including __Number the Stars__ in 1989, and __The Giver__, in 1993, which won Newberry Medals. Her subjects are sometimes controversial, but deal with human connections. She still writes and makes speaking appearances.

Lois Lowry. (2007). In //Wikipedia// [Web]. Retrieved 05/11/07, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_Lowry


 * Bibliography of Lois Lowry's Novels:

//A Summer to Die.// Boston. MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1977. //Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1978. //Anastasia Krupnik.//** **Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.** //Anastasia Again!// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1981.** //Anastasia Ask Your Analyst.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.** //One Hundredth Thing About Caroline.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1985. //Anastasia on Her Own.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.** //Anastasia Has the Answers.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1986.** //Anastasia's Chosen Career.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.** //Number the Stars.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1989. //Your Move J.P.!// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. //Anastasia at This Address.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.** //The Giver.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1993. //Anastasia, Absolutely.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1995.**
 * //Autumn Street.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1979.
 * //Anastasia at Your Service.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.**
 * //Taking Care of Terrific.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1983.
 * //Us and Uncle Fraud.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1984.
 * //Switcharound.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
 * //Rabble Starkey.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
 * //All About Sam.// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
 * //Attaboy, Sam!// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1992.
 * //See You Around Sam!// Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1996.**

DiNuzzo, Tony (1996). Learning about Lois Lowry. Retrieved May 11, 2007, from Rutgers University Web site: http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/lowry.html