What do you think happened at the end of The Giver?What clues in the book led you to your answer?

I think Jonas safely travels out of the community and
finds other societies unlike the one depicted in The Giver. Jonas
demonstrates bravery throughout the novel, giving him the courage to escape. He also is
intelligent and appalled when he begins to understand what type of place in which he
lives. For example, he does not want to return home when he understands "release" means
putting someone to death. After watching his father release an infant, Jonas is
repulsed.

As for the community, it would have been thrown
into disarray. As the Giver noted, there was no one who could take over Jonas' job, and
clearly the Giver lacked the heart to transfer painful memories to someone else. His
reluctance probably stemmed from training his own daughter, who sought release as an
escape from the torture of bearing the community's memories. After the Giver lied and
told the community that Jonas had died, "Their attention would turn to the overwhelming
task of bearing the memories themselves. The Giver would help
them."