The Giver Book Vs Movie Essay

The Giver is an interesting story about a 12 year-old boy named Jonas. This story takes place in a utopian community where everything is the same, this includes color, clothes, hairstyles, and choices. One thing that is definitely not the same is the book and the movie.

In the book, Jonas’s friends Fiona and Asher get assigned to the job of Caretaker of the Old and Head of Recreation, while these are normal jobs Jonas’s is not. He is selected (a quite rare thing to happen) to be a Receiver of Memory. This means that after school he goes to the Annex room to meet with the previous Receiver, now known as the Giver. The Giver passes memory’s down to the receiver of the world before the Sameness.

There are many differences between the book and the movie although these differences are annoying at first, they prove to be useful in making the movie a good movie. First off one of the biggest problems I had was the fact that the actors for what I thought were going to be 12 year-olds look like they are 18. I later realized they did this because in the movie they are 18, even further I realized that they did this because the book is all about learning complex emotions, and that’s not going to be accurately portrayed through the words of a

This fact may seem as if but in fact the book says that they don’t understand ‘downhill’ as they have never felt the feeling of height which implies that everything, and I mean everything is flat. This conflicts because if you are even sticking your head out a window on the second floor you have a feeling of height, let alone a massive building probably 70’ tall. Although this does not align with the book at all, if everything were nothing more than one story tall in the movie, it would look quite boring to viewers