Chapters 20-23

In chapter 20, Jonas won't go home after the days work because of what he saw on the screen early that day of the release. As a result of this, The Giver arranges for Jonas to stay over night in the Annex Room. That night Jonas thought that it was worthless to stay in the community any longer and live the boring life that he had lived for so long, so The Giver and himself, thought of a escape plan. Jonas kept edging on The Giver to come with him, but he said he had to stay there and help the community with their problems. They talked through the plan and thought it was actually going to work. Then Jonas tried one more time to ask The Giver to come and his response was:

"But I have another place to go. When my work here is finished, I want to be with my daughter."

Jonas never knew that The Giver had a daughter. Jonas then saw happiness within him for the first time and he replied.

"Her name was Rosemary," The Giver said

In chapter 21 of The Giver, it is the night of the escape and Jonas has to go out of his dwelling late at night around midnight and that is against the rules but he does make it to the place that he wants to go to, the bridge that would take him out of the community. In the escape he rode on his bicycle. Before the escape, at the evening meal, his father had said that Gabe was going to be released the very next morning, and so when Jonas was escaping he took Gabe along with him on the journey. When he had crossed the bridge, he had to circle around all the other communities and it took a lot out of him and was tiring. Everyday of the journey, planes would fly over head of Jonas and Gabe, looking for them, and the way the found people was from heat identification. So when they heard the engines come, Jonas gave the memory of the coldest thing he knew to Gabe and both him and Jonas became cold and the planes could not see them. After a few days he no longer saw them because he thought they wouldn't come out this far.

In chapter 22, Jonas came upon a different landscape the landscape was a landscape of more trees, animals, flowers, and the road that he was traveling had changed as well. One day Gabe called out "Plane, Plane!", and when they hid in the underbrush, Jonas noticed that it wasn't a plane, and that it was birds flying above. Now after long days of traveling they had eaten all of their food and they were becoming starving. Now Jonas thinks he can't make it.

In chapter 23, Jonas and Gabe are freezing and are traveling in the bitter cold snow. Jonas tries to gave warmth off through the memories. Every step they take Jonas feels that he is getting really close to Elsewhere where there is food and warmth. Then up ahead there was this huge steep hill. It would of been a hard working ride, but with the snow it was an even more demanding ride, an almost impossible ride. Jonas and Gabe got colder by the second. They battled the snow and the hill. Jonas couldn't take any longer, but he got some warmth memories and received the will to survive. They both trudged up the hill ever so slightly. Then finally, which seemed for ever, the hill became slightly flat and more flat. When Jonas got to the top he recognized the scene and waiting for him at the top was the sled. He mounted the sled and started his decent down to where he knew was light and warmth. Then as he was going faster and faster, he heard music and he knew it was the place.