The Giver Chapter 24 Summary

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Jonas and Gabe were beginning to understand what the world was really like. The hunger, the wild, the everlasting feeling of being terrified consumed them. The feeling of fatigue was beginning to take control of their bodies and the way that they traveled. Though it was a very unlikely possibility, Jonas believed that their journey was coming to an end. The next few days on the boys' journey, it began to become colder. The days became shorter, and the nights became longer. Jonas had become accustomed to walking slower and traveling through the day, when the light was plentiful, and that he could see where he was walking, while trying to protect Gabe as he did. One day, the harsh cold was accompanied by a light snowfall, one that surprised Jonas,…show more content…
The child was very weak. "I guess that means we should go." Jonas sighed and started towards the hill. Clouds were beginning to cover the sky, and within the next hour or so, it was completely dark again. Though every bone in Jonas's body told him to stop going, he kept towards the hill, and eventually up it. Not straying from the path that lied before him. To the odd pairs luck, it began snowing again. The already difficult climb up the hill became worse, and the footprints were beginning to disappear. "We're almost there, Gabe. Almost there," Jonas whispered in reassurance to the child and himself to encourage himself to get finish the climb up the hill. And the pair made it up the hill. Jonas was awestruck at the sight below him, though it was blurry and his eyesight along with the rest of his body was weak, he could make out the slight colors that outlined a cabin below him. He began his descent towards the cabin and he fell halfway down the hill. In attempt to get back up, he fell again. Jonas covered the child in his arms as he fell down at the third attempt and rolled down the hill. At the bottom of the hill, he and Gabe were only a few yards from the
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