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Brief Summary From 'The Giver'

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I think Jonas and Gabriel died. When I read the sentences about Jonas found a sled and went down the hills, I thought that’s not possible if someone just goes up the hill and finds a sled. I think what Jonas saw at the end of the book is not real, someone could see something that is not real when he/she was really hungry and cold. When Jonas was going up the hill, he was really hungry, he didn’t eat anything through the past few days. Jonas’s clothes are wet and the temperature of the hill is getting colder and colder. Jonas’s body kept getting colder and colder, and he’s very hungry, he couldn’t keep his body warm, he didn’t have the energy to keep him going up the hill. The other reason why I think Jonas died is that when he went up the hills,
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