Jonas is curious to know about release and one afternoon he asks the giver about it. He ends up wanting to see the release of the other  lighter twin and to his surprise the giver tells him they are all recorded. Jonas witnesses his dad talking in a fake kind voice with no meaning injecting the little boy in the face with a needle possibly full of poison. Jonas is so shocked that he say I won't go home you can't make me go home. the giver tells him he can sleep in the annex room that night they plan to make things different and have people make memories. They plan to have jonas leave with all thes (most of) memorie the giver tells him he does not have to go because he can't even see colors anymore they cannot use him. He saves the leftovers from dinner, that night at dinner the family tells its lies about the day, "their feelings" and his dad says that they are going to release gabriel. so that night he leaves on dads bike taking gabriel and some scraps of food. he leaves running out of civilisation using the memory of cold to hide from the colorblind heat detecting search planes. That later stop coming he experiences nature snow and starvation. He finds the hill he first went sledding on running out of good memories e gets to the top almost dead and slides down on the other side to see a house with a tree in it with candles and decoration. He finally finds what he is looking for. either that or he is unconscious when he fell and is in his dreams. me no like ending D: