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=Chapter One=

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Jonas tries to find the right word for his feelings about the ceremony that is coming up soon. After remembering a plane that accidentally flew over the community, and a memory of his friend, he finds the word (apprehensive). At the ritual after dinner, Jonas (and his family unit) share their feelings. His mother and father tell Lily, Jonas's little sister, that they want a private conversation with her older brother.

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Jonas and his mother and father talk about the Ceremonies that are coming up soon. Father explains that each December Ceremony brings changes to everyone, especially to the children. He also talks about Assignments that Elevens get when they become a Twelve (because the same thing will happen for Jonas).

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Jonas's father brings the troubled newchild, Gabriel, home to be taken care of. When Lily says that she wants to be a Birthmother, her mother tells her otherwise. Jonas himself remembered an incident that happened a month before.

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Jonas finds Asher's bicycle at the House of the Old and decides to help out. He goes to the bathing room where Asher and Fiona are helping. Jonas talks to Larissa, the person that he is bathing, about the ceremonies when the Old are released.

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Jonas reports a very vivid dream at the morning ritual. When Lily and Father leave with Gabe, Mother talks to Jonas about his first Stirrings. She gives him a pill and reminds the boy that he would have to take it all of his adult life.

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The day has come for the Ceremonies for the children, and everyone is excited. Jonas's sister, Lily, becomes an Eight, and his friend, Fiona, receives a little brother. On the second day, Jonas (and the other Elevens) wait anxiously for their Assignments.

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Jonas and the rest of his group are finally getting their Assignments. He watches as Asher, Fiona, and the others before him get their Assignments. But then, the Chief Elder skips over Jonas's name, making him have a feeling of anguish.

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After a lot of anxiety, Jonas finally finds out that he was, not assigned, but selected to be the new Receiver of Memory. The Chief Elder says that he will have to train with the current Receiver. After a while Jonas feels that he is ready to accept his role.

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Jonas feels apart from the others in his community for the first time. When he gets to his home, he and his mother and father talk about the failed Receiver ten years ago. As Jonas reads his rules, he feels overwhelmed and confused, but he seems to work it out.

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Jonas feels a little uneasy about his first day training with the Receiver. When they finally meet face-to-face, the Receiver tells the boy about the role that he has been given and how it helps the community. After the talk, the Receiver starts to give Jonas his first memory: snow.

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After Jonas receives his memory of snow, he questions the Receiver about why the community doesn't have snow, hills, and sleds. After they talk for about a minute, Jonas receives the memory of sunshine. Then, after the transmission of that memory, the Receiver explains that the community has Climate Control and went to Sameness. When Jonas asks about pain, the Receiver transmits the memory of sunburn to Jonas. As he is about to leave, Jonas asks the Receiver what to call him, since the boy himself is the new Receiver. The reply was, "Call me The Giver."

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After the school hours (and hours of feeling apart from the others), Jonas arrives at the House of the Old with Fiona. Before going in, Jonas sees his friend's hair change, like the apple and the flesh of the audience in the auditorium. The Giver explains to Jonas that he is beginning to see the color red, and that Sameness took away the color. For Jonas to grasp the concept of color, the Giver transmits the memory of a rainbow to him.

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Over the next weeks, Jonas leans all about colors and decides that it would be frightening if the citizens could choose for themselves. He becomes angry as he tries to find answers to a controlled society. After coming home with a memory of elephant hunters, Jonas tries to tell his sister that elephants were once real, but she doesn't believe him. Jonas questions the Giver about spouses and the Receiver's life and is told that he would have to live differently from the other citizens. For example, he could apply for a spouse, but he would have to hide the books from his family unit. When he questions about pain, the Giver prepares Jonas for his first suffering.

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Jonas receives the memory of a broken leg during a snow ride. When it ends, he asks the Giver for relief, but he gets none. The young Receiver conceals his pain from his father at dinnertime and realizes that nobody else in the community (besides the Giver and himself) could feel pain. The daily training continues, and Jonas learns that the Giver helps the Elders make decisions (for example, he advised against more child births before Jonas was born). Jonas realizes that no rules can be changed. When his father reports that Gabriel isn't sleeping soundly at night, Jonas sugests that the newchild could sleep in his room. Gabe sleeps soundly until around midnight or so and wakes up crying. Jonas, trying to calm him down, unknowingly transmitted a memory of a sail on a lake to Gabriel. When the newchild wakes up crying at dawn, Jonas gives him the rest of the memory.

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Jonas enters the Annex Room, knowing that he would be sent away by the Giver, and asks if he could help. The Giver pleads to Jonas to take the memory that is causing him pain. The boy agrees, and he is given the memory of warfare (the Civil War, to be exact).... and death.

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Jonas, who now dislikes his work, continues to go to the Annex room. The Giver passes on his favorite memory- a Christmas memory and the warmth of family, including grandparents. Jonas realizes that his own parents will leave when he and Lily are old enough to have their own family units; still, he likes the feeling of love that makes him feel complete. However, when Jonas asks his parents at dinner if they love him, he is told that the word has become almost meaningless. Meanwhile, Gabriel is decided to be named and be given to a family...... but the young child cries after being taken away from Jonas's room. The boy himself hides the fact that he has been transmitting dreams to the newchild every night. The next morning, Jonas throws his pills away.

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Four weeks later, an unscheduled holiday lets Jonas have a day off from school. He looks for Asher and finds him playing a game of war with Tonya, Fiona, and a few others. When Jonas remembers the memory of war that the Giver gave him, he doesn't react to the pretend gun fires, and almost all of the children scatter. Asher reminds Jonas that war games are a part of recreation. After he tells him not to enact violence any more, Jonas leaves alone and regrets that his friends can't experience love. He cheers up that evening when Gabe takes his first steps. When his father waits anxiously for the releasing of one of the twins the next day, Lily makes up a story about a world of twins, one twin in their community and the other twin Elsewhere.

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After their talk, the Giver allows Jonas to see the morning's release of the little twin. Jonas watches as he sees his father go through the process of Release..... which, the boy learns, is actually death.

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Jonas, while eating dinner the night before he plans to hide his bicycle for the escape, finds out that Gabriel will be Released because, when Gabe spent the night at the Nurturing Center, he cried all night long. His father, who delivered the news to his family, says that even he agreed for the newchild's Release. The boy abandons the plan that he and the Giver worked out, straps Gabe to a child carrier, and rides on his father's bicycle at night across the bridge into the unknown. Gabriel sleeps soundly until dawn; then Jonas feeds him beside a stream and sleep all day in the woods. They hide from planes with heat-seeking devices a few days later by flattening themselves on the ground to chill their flesh.

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After nights of pedaling, Jonas bumps against a rock and twists his ankle. (Gabriel, luckily, was only shocked by the experience.) With no sign of the searcher planes, he pedals in the daylight and sees a bird and a deer. When both of the travelers run out of potatoes and carrots, Jonas nets a few fish in a stream. The strain of hunger and his sore ankle makes the journey difficult for the older traveler. Rain comes down on the travelers for two days, and both Gabe and Jonas cry.