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The Giver Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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When you think of a story, do you remember the book or the movie? Do you like the colourful images the director gives, or the images the author paints in your mind? In The Giver written by Lois Lowry, both the book and the movie represented the general theme of a utopian community, but when you break them both down, you can see not only the similarities, but also the differences.

An example of a difference in the novel and film is the characters. They are all represented in the same way, but some of their personalities, hobbies, and other things were a little different. To start off, Jonas and his friends in the film are older in the movie than in the book. This is probably because they wanted to make the age of receiving a job more appropriate. …show more content…

At the beginning of both of them, they start off with describing the life of Jonas. They explain how Jonas has two best friends, Fiona and Asher. They show Jonas with his parents and little sister. They show his daily routines and basically everything about his life. After we get an understanding about this, Jonas is about to turn a 12. At the ceremony of twelve, when everyone is getting their jobs, in the book and movie the head elder skips Jonas’ number and gives his job as the receiver last. The only difference was that the number of Jonas was 19 in the book, but 53 in the movie. After the ceremony, Jonas starts his training. Both novel and movie show how tough Jonas’ training is until he hits a breaking point. This is when he decides to escape. He spends many days planning to run away and eventually does at night. In the book and movie he ran away with Gabe because they were going to release him. He was starving, tired of riding his bike, and freezing from the snow, and right before he gave up, he reached a house on a hill. He finally felt safe, and the last words of both the book and movie were “He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an

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