The Giver Chapter 1 Summary

The Giver placed his hands on Jonas’s bare back, and suddenly Jonas was on a hard ground. He was laying down with a bunch of small, tiny rocks digging into his skin. Jonas stood up and wiped the rocks from his skin. From the distance he can see these boats. They are not like the boat he was on when The Giver gave him the memory of the sea. These boats were much bigger. “Ships”. They are sitting on the water. Peacefully flowing with the current of the moving, clear, beautiful water. Jonas has never seen anything like them. He started running towards them. When he gets to the ships, they are a lot bigger than what they were from the distance he was at. There are so many people around, they are yelling at each other and many of them are getting
There was red everywhere. On the ground every step he takes. Blood from every man who was unlucky enough to get in the way of the explosion. The droplets of blood on the picture the man had. Jonas walks into the dwelling where there are a couple other men in the dwelling too. The bombs are still exploding and with every one that hits the ground, Jonas’s ears rattle, the ground shakes, and there are screams of agony and pain. Jonas wants this to be over. He wants all of this to stop. He watches outside the hole in the wall as a ship with a name on the side “USS Oklahoma” tips over on it’s side and emerges to the deep, stained red sea. He watches men struggle in the sea swimming to the land trying to get away. But he focuses more on the bodies drifting with the now uneasy and harsh current of the sea. Jonas hears the building he is under coming down. He stands there in the building looking up at all the small rocks and dust starting to fall from the ceiling. He runs out of the building with all the energy he has left. He dives into the hard ground covering his face with his arms. His arms are scraped and he can see the blood and dirt covering his arms and he starts sobbing as he turns around and sees one of the guys yelling at the man underneath the rubble slowly dying. The man is sobbing yelling at him to stay with him. He is calling him brother. That’s his brother. His brother is lying on the ground with the building on top of him and the man still stays there right beside his brother. Refusing to move away from him. Even as a bomb comes down and explodes the crumbled dwelling. Jonas stands there sobbing looking at the men washed up on the side of the sand, the men on the ground and on the ship. It’s horrible. All of it, it’s all wrong. Why would humans do this to each other. Jonas runs towards this other dwelling. It is much bigger. He starts running towards the dwelling but he can see another bomb dropping from the