The Giver Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a book and a movie. In the book many ideas, concepts and actions are very different than the movie. The book starts off following the life of Jonas, an eleven year old living in a controlled community. With a few days coming until the Ceremony of Twelves, Jonas doesn't know what he will be assigned. He ends up being assigned to be The Receiver, a very honored job in their community. The community isn’t very advanced, so Jonas is given a folder with all of his rules. One of the rules is that he must not discuss anything from his training to anyone else. Jonas follows this rule. Also, starting at around the age eleven, the members community must take a pill every morning to control their “stirrings”, Jonas stops taking them. Jonas and Fiona aren’t that close, and Jonas never mentions anything to her about training and feelings. Asher, Jonas’s best friend for the majority of the book, is assigned to be a Recreation Director. Fiona is Caretaker of the Old. Almost everything that was mentioned in the previous few sentences was different in the …show more content…

The community is super modern, and when he is assigned to be at what they say is graduation, he is given a hologram machine that tells him and projects the rules. I believe that the rules that he was given in the movie were the same as the rules given in the book. Jonas and Fiona talk very much, and Jonas falls in love with Fiona because he stopped taking his morning injection. He tells her to stop taking the injection so she could feel the same way that he feels about her. She does, and Jonas kisses her. Asher is a drone pilot and strictly follows the rules. When Asher sees Jonas leaving his dwelling at night, Asher tries to stop Jonas. The he alerts the community and they go on a wild chase. The producers in the movie turned it into more of an action and love adventure, which was different in the

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