What Is Chapter 23 About in the Giver

When the memory of sunshine is gone, he focuses on his memories of his friends, family, and The Giver. These memories, and his intense desire to keep Gabriel safe, help him make it to the top of the hill. The hill symbolizes Jonas’s final struggle. He must face this struggle without any help (or a bicycle).

What will Jonas find chapter 23?

He knows, he says, because he remembers it. This is a memory of his own. And then, Jonas finds the sled from his first memory, waiting for him at the top of the hill. He settles on to it, pulls Gabriel close to him, and feels hopeful as he begins to surge down the other side of the hill.

Why does Jonas leave his bicycle behind Chapter 23?

The staff, including Jonas’s father, voted to release him the next day. Jonas cannot allow this to happen, so he takes some leftover food and his father’s bicycle, which has a child seat, and leaves, relying on his own courage and strength instead of on the memories that the Giver had promised.