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Chapter Summary: The Giver

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Suddenly The Givers cold laid upon Jonas. In a flash Jonas was in a place filled with the colour, ‘yellow sand’, came to mind. It was a place external to him. “This is such a weird place!” He thought. Jonas has never seen a place like this before. Jonas noticed the ground was different and bent down and touched it. It felt bristly. He looked at the eye-opening horizon, there was a ‘sun’ in the sky. Then a word came to the tip of his tongue ‘desert’.
Jonas saw the place was reticent. But then Jonas saw something soaring in the vast blue sky. It was flapping in circles near the blazing torrid sun. A word came to mind ‘bird’. The bird continued flying then it caught Jonas by its eye. Suddenly is it swooped down towards Jonas, darting like a bullet. But as he ducks it misses him. When it went past the wind whistled. Jonas didn’t know what was happening so he just ran towards somewhere… …show more content…

“This is place is getting creepy by the minute!” He said to himself.
So Jonas decided to have a lie-down. He looked towards the horizon and he started seeing the colours ‘pink’, ‘red and ‘orange’. Jonas started wondering what is happening. To be sure, he got up and rubbed his eyes. He was awestruck, he saw many colours in one place. He admired this fascinating view. He started walking again and on the way saw a prickly object. Then Jonas had a sudden urge to touch it; So he did, his finger stung with pain and a red liquid came dripping down. ‘Blood’. He wiped the blood off onto his tunic and continued the

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