The Giver ends with Jonas's rejection of his community's ideal of Sameness. He decides to rescue Gabriel and escape the community, and they grow steadily weaker as they travel through an unfamiliar wintery landscape.
The ending to The Giver is sort of a "take it how you like it" deal. Either Jonas and Gabriel make it to Elsewhere, everyone is happy, and the world is right as rain, or… they die of exposure/starvation in the freezing snow.
The end of The Giver is open to interpretation. Some readers believe that Jonas and Gabriel are able to escape, and they sled into a new community. Others interpret the final scene as a dying hallucination of Jonas's that was triggered by the first memory The Giver gave him.
In both book and movie, Jonas leaves the community with Gabriel. But in nearly every other respect the endings diverge. In the movie, Jonas leaves to save Gabriel from being released, while in the book he takes his time and plans his escape carefully, only expediting the plan when he finds out about Gabriel's release.
The ending of the Giver is Jonas shaking off a near-death experience and returning to live with his family. Yes, that's right, the ending of the Giver isn't a hallucination.
Once, long ago, he lied about why his bike had been parked outside of its bike port. Lying about going to volunteer hours when he was really going to spend time with Asher.
Ultimately because Jonas's isolating position makes him see the world in a new way, he is not able to continue his friendship with Fiona. He realizes she cannot feel emotions as he can, and although he loves her, she is not able to love him.
4) Jonas doesn't kiss Fiona in the book
But in the book, he doesn't really act on his Stirrings toward Fiona, probably because, well, he's only a Twelve.
It is revealed in Gathering Blue that Gabriel and Jonas both survived. They went on to become important members of their new community.
Spoilers ahead for The Giver and, of course, its ending! Lois Lowry's The Giver ends ambiguously with the main character Jonas escaping from his society along with the baby Gabriel, whom he has rescued from being euthanized for the crime of not fitting in.
After receiving the painful warfare memory in Chapter 15, Jonas is reluctant to see The Giver again. The pain that he experienced causes him to mature, and, as a result, he loses his innocence and his childhood. He does return to The Giver, though, because he knows that "the choice was not his."
Jonas leaves the community in The Giver because he realizes that its governmental and social systems have become deeply corrupted. The people in the community are accustomed to surrendering their freedom to the Council of Elders. They ignore anything that contradicts the idea that they live in a utopia.
When elders of Jonas' community decided to create their utopian world, they decided to remove love, feelings, and emotions, because they caused pain and suffering. The book's lesson shares that love is a vital part of life; a person's feelings are an essential part of what makes them who they are.
When Jonas is selected as the Receiver, or the holder of memories and emotions for the whole society, he realizes his love for Fiona. But, she won't be able to return that love.
Within a year of training, he becomes extremely sensitive to beauty, pleasure, and suffering, deeply loving toward his family and the Giver, and fiercely passionate about his new beliefs and feelings.
This movie has kissing and murdering in it.
Now Jonas knows that his father has killed the baby. Release means death. After the video ends, The Giver tells Jonas that Rosemary asked to inject herself at her release.
Kira is married to Jonas and now lives in the Village where her father used to live (Christopher), and they have to kids Annabelle, and Matthew, named after Matty and Annabella.
When Jonas next sees Fiona, he suggests to her that she stop taking her morning injections, which is what numbs the emotions in everyone. He later takes her to the Triangle, a spot where they and Asher enjoyed going to. There, Jonas kisses Fiona for the first time.
But Lowry says the film itself isn't consumed by the relationship between Jonas and Fiona, except for a line in the final scene in which Jonas says, "I knew I would see Fiona again." "I've written four books now (in this series) and he never sees her again," Lowry tells The News.
Lowry's The Giver teaches us the importance of experiencing all that makes us fully human; individual memories—good and bad—and historical memories—good and bad—are part of that colorful, feeling human experience.
Fiona is one of Jonas' good friends. She is a very pretty girl who is sensitive, intelligent, quiet, and polite. At the Ceremony of Twelve, Fiona is assigned to be Caretaker of the Old. Jonas accompanies Fiona as they ride their bicycles to their new assignments.
She's decided to have the baby and give it up for adoption. When he says he's not cool with that, she suggests that he will be a bad father, which is NOT TRUE. Marriage comes up, with Lip saying he likes her and could eventually love her.
Plot. Fiona struggles with work at Patsy's Pies after being promoted to assistant manager. Though she is still married to Gus, Fiona has begun a sexual relationship with Sean. When Fiona unexpectedly finds out she is pregnant (and does not know who the father is), she ultimately decides to get an abortion.
With a new outlook on life, Fiona decides it's time to move on from the South Side and start a new life for herself. With a heartfelt goodbye to all her family, even Frank, Fiona sets off, but not before one last maternal gift to the kids she raised: half of her newfound fortune.