In Ch. 20 Jonas refuses to go home because he has just seen a video of the "release" that his father performed on a newborn twin that morning at the Nurturing Center.
Up until this point in the novel, Jonas has not really understood what "release" really meant. As a result, he has also not fully understood his father's role as a Nurturer. Once he does see what his father did during the "release", lethally injecting a perfectly healthy newborn baby and then discarding his body into what appears to be a trash chute, Jonas is horrified and traumatized. He also feels betrayed by his father and his community that has sanctioned this behavior.
"But he lied to me!" Jonas wept.
"It's what he was told to do, and he knows nothing else."
"What about you? Do you lie to me, too?" Jonas almost spat the question at the Giver.
Jonas is trying to come to terms with how someone he trusted so completely, his father, could commit such a heinous act. He is so shaken, he no longer knows who to trust or what to believe, so his anger and distrust come out at the Giver, at first.
Jonas stays with the Giver that night because he is too distraught to go home after all he has learned. He literally would not know what to do or say around his father.
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