The Giver Book Vs Movie Essay

The Giver Movie vs.The Giver Book
Have you ever read a book and watched its movie and thought that the movie was nothing like the book? The Giver’s story was not adapted well onto the big screen. There were many changes that were made, some of which completely altered the whole course of the storyline. For example, Fiona working at the Nurturing Center instead the House of the Old and the characters taking injections instead of pills also changed the way Jonas acted especially towards Fiona throughout the entire movie Some of the many trivial changes that were made did not affect the movie as much.
In the movie, Fiona is assigned to work at the Nurturing Center instead of the the House of the Old, the place where she was actually

assigned to work at in the book. This was most likely changed to make the movie more interesting, especially because she was working there at night. This way, Fiona could help Gabe escape when Jonas was leaving to go to Elsewhere. It also made the movie more dramatic and Fiona got more involved in the story. She helped distract the security guards that were coming after Jonas when he was escaping from the Nurturing Center with Gabe. In the book, Fiona was only featured when she was either playing with Jonas and Asher or when she was talking to Jonas about their assignments.
Another major change that disrupted Jonas’s feelings of the Stirrings and the way that he felt towards Fiona was the fact that the characters took injections instead of pills.

Jonas began to stop taking the injection each morning after a while, because he liked the way the Stirrings made him feel warm inside. Jonas also found a way to trick the system into skipping the daily injection by putting a drop of his blood on an apple and then putting the apple on the injector. This would make the system inject the serum to stop the Stirrings in the apple instead of Jonas. He convinced Fiona to do this too because he wanted her to feel the same way he felt towards her. This shows that Fiona trusts Jonas because she was breaking a major rule of the community. In the book, Jonas hardly ever talks to Fiona about the Stirrings and does not trick the system. He just decides to stop taking the pills. Overall, this makes the whole movie more dramatic and intense.
Movie adaptations can sometimes be accurate, but in this case, the movie for The Giver was not. Most of the changes made were minor and didn't affect the story. One of the minor changes was that The Giver, Jonas, and Gabe did not have pale eyes but had marks on their wrists instead. Some changes completely affected the plot. The major changes, Fiona’s job being different and the characters taking injections instead of pills, made the whole movie more dramatic and different from the

book.