Ch. 16 & 17 Summary

Student Chapter Summaries:

In chapter 16 Jonas don’t want to go back to his training because he don’t want to feel any more pain and loneliness. Then the Giver gave him more memories. He saw birthday party. He visited museums and saw paintings. Also he walked in the woods.
In this chapter Jonas fell pain of loss and loneliness. Also, Jonas saw old people in a reunion. He learned that those people are grandparents. Then Jonas can understand the word of Love. Then he went to his house and Jonas asked to his father if he loves him, and his father reply him that word was to general so they should say do you enjoy me. Jonas also can understand the where the old people come from he realize that those people are grandparents.

In chapter 17 an uncommon holiday was declared in the community. Jonas experiences that the feelings his family feel are nothing like the feelings he knows through his memories.
Jonas refuses participate in a game with his friends because he recognizes they are playing a war game. He tries to explain this to his friends that that game is about cruel and horrible reality, but they get disappointed. He left his friends knowing that they cannot understand the things as he does. At home Gabriel has learned to walk and to say his name. Jonas’s father talks about the release and that he will select the child with the lowest weight.

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