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Chapters 1 - 5

• Luke Garner is playing in the woods, enjoying his last moments of freedom.

• Luke is afraid he will never be let outside again.

• Luke's parents tell him that the Government forced them to sell the woods next to their house.

• The woods are being torn down to put in houses for Government workers and other city folks.
• Luke wishes he could look out the window at the woods one more time, but he is not allowed to look out windows.

• Luke's father gets angry with him for asking to look out the window.

• Luke wonders what will happen if anyone ever saw him in the window -- his parents have never explained.

• Luke's brothers, Mark and Matthew, complain that they will have to do Luke's chores now that he can't go outside anymore.

• Luke's mother hides his plate in the cupboard and stashes his chair in...

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