'The Giver': Comparing The Book And Movie

The Giver is such a great book, but is such a weird movie. I’m going to review both the book and movie to show you what I mean.

So the setting is basically this futuristic community with robotic devices such as that TV dinner, the futuristic buildings, and the hologram of the Elder Chief. Theoretically, I think that The Giver take place about 200-300 years into the future because the community is raised above the clouds, which could mean it could be about 150 years after the end of the world, and Elsewhere is nothing but a desert with a few mountains. There are also lots of forests and hills in Elsewhere.

The characters in this story are Jonas, Asher, Fiona, Gabriel, and The Giver. Jonas is a polite and ambitious boy who works with the Giver receiving dreams, Asher is a clumsy friend of Jonas who hangs out with him, but he is a bit more assertive to Jonas in the movie than the book, Fiona is a good

Things so pretty well at first, despite not seeing his friends as much. But when he sees his dad kill a sick newborn baby, he gets worried about the community and Gabriel’s future, so he rides off to the nurturing center at night, breaking the rules of the community. When he gets to the nurturing center, he takes Gabriel with him, alerting the Elder chief, who tells Asher to find him. When Jonas and Gabriel go Elsewhere, the Elder chief never gives up and tells Asher to find him once more, but he quits. Meanwhile, the community gets in a huge crisis because Jonas is gone, and Fiona gets released in front of millions of people, including The Giver. He finds a snowy hill and a sled as he saw in one of his dreams, and rides down on it. He hears angelic voices and lots of colorful lights, which theoretically brought color to the community as shown in the movie and sounds the residents never heard before Thanks to Jonas, there are colors in the