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Ch.1-Jonas was scared about turning12,and remembered a time when he was also scared,when a plane flew over the community,later on that day their family sat around at dinner and shared their feelings.

Ch.2-Jonas is nevous about the ceremony of twelve,he is nervous about what the cheif elder is going to pick for him. [|] Ch.3-Jonas's family takes in a baby boy named Gabriel until they can find him a new family unit,and now Jonas's sister Lily wants to be a birthmother

Ch.4- Jonas findes ashers bike beside the House of Old. He walks in and looks around and findes Lirrasa,Asher,and Fiona. Jonas asks Lirrasa about the ceremoney when the old are realesd. [|] [|] Ch.5-Jonas starts to have stirrings and has to take a pill. Ch.6- Lily becomes an eight, and gets a jacket that buttons in the front Ch.7-for the first time scince a VERY long time the cheif elder skipped someone,Jonas.

Chapter 8-After all of the other twelves had recieved their asignment they finally called Jonas. They told him that he had been selected to be the Reciever of Memory. They said that he had the five qualitys of a reciever: Intelligence, Integrety, Courage, Wisdom, and the power to see beyond.

Ch.9-Jonas reads the duties of his jod and has a hard time understanding a few of them.

Ch.10-Jonas enters the the annex room and meets the Giver,and he tells Jonas about seeing beyond.

Ch.11- summary- The old reciever is giving Jonas the some of his memorys and hes telling him about them and why they happened like how he got the sunburn.

Ch.12-Next day Jonas starts to see the color red like that apple that he saw turn red when he was throwing it in the air with asher. jonas is starting to see colors for the first time.

Ch.13-Jonas thinks its unfair that nobody except the recievers can see colors, so he tryes to give a memory of the color to his friends and family, but it didn't work.

Ch.14-Jonas starts seeing colors,more than usual.The giver is in pain,and now desides to give a little of the pain to Jonas.

Ch.15-Jonas goes back and ask to take more pain away from the Giver.Then finally Jonas nows the meaning of warfare, and when he opens his eyes the Giver asks jonas to please forgive him for the pain that he gave.

Ch.16-Jonas finally starts reciving good memories agian. Gabriel is soon going to recive a family unit.

Ch.17-Jonas'a friends are playing war and wants jonas to play but he knows the meaningof it and does not want to play.And ceremonies are coming up.

ch.18-Jonas asks the Giver about the girl that was a failure. Her name was Rosemary,she asked to be released,and the Giver LOVED her a lot.

Ch.19-Jonas watches the film of the twin baby being released,witch he learned was actualy killing them,it made Jonas want to cry.

Ch.20-Jonas is very upset about his father killing the baby twin, and the way people get released. He desides to run away ant wants the Giver to come with him. The Giver tells jonas that after Jonas leaves,he the Giver will be with his daugter //Rosemary. Ch.21- Jonas goes back to his dwelling and his father,mother,and Lily decide to ^^RELEASE^^ Gabriel.Jonas makes tthe escape to leave the community.

Ch.22-Jonas and gabe start to starve and go weak.

Ch.23-Jonas finds the hill and the sled that was in a memory that the Giver had given him.he saw lights and felt love and happieness.

Biblography:LoisLowrey was born March 20, 1937 in Hawaii.Her father was an army dentists and the family lived all over the world.She attended Brown University, but left after her sophmore year to get married and raise a family of four children.They settled in Main, where she returned to college and resived her degree from the Univercity of Southern Main. Lois Lowery fulfilled her childhood dream when she bagan writting in the mid-1970's.Lois lowrey has written over 20 novels and winner of the Newbery Medal twice.