Jonas escapes the community because he wants to save Gabriel. Jonas is a 12 year old boy. He was chosen to be the receiver. The receiver is a person who receives memories. He started to see things no one else in the community can see. He lived by the rules until he became the receiver. He started to get feeling from the memories he receives.
The community is a pretty small place. In the community everything is the same. Theres a lot of rules in this community. Memories are kept by someone called the giver. No one in the community really knows what receiving is. Theres a thing called release it happens when you get old or when you have a failure. The community is a pretty strict place.
In the story there's a boy that they watch named Gabriel. Gabriel is not the same as every other kid, so they were going to release him. Jonas wanted him to be saved from being released. Every night Jonas would give him memories. Jonas was not aloud to do that, but he did anyway. Jonas wanted things to be good for Gabriel in the future.
