The Giver Movie Essay

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In The Giver, I believe the movie was better. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas that lives in a world of no hatred, crimes, sadness, or happiness. Everything is neutral and the society does the same thing on a day to day basis. You’re assigned to a spouse and assigned to two children. The career you get is based on the capabilities and interests that specific person has. Jonas tries to take what he experiences and share it with other people within the community.
First of all in the book Jonas discovers he has feelings for Fiona and in the movie it just was more romantic in the movie he ends up kissing Fiona and he takes her sledding using metal trays as the sleds. He teaches his sister to dance as well and has many of his feelings and
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In the movie the house of the old is not as important as in the book. In the book Jonas was also number fifty three in the movie he was nineteen. I think this was to make the audience think there were more graduates in the class. When I read the book it seemed like there were about fifty some people in every age group.This made the community seem small as well as the population, but in the movie it seemed like the people were well into the hundreds.
In the book there was a river surrounding the community and all Jonas had to do was cross it and reach the boundaries of memories that once Jonas reached all the people in the community would once again have memories. Well in the movie it was just an edge that just seemed to keep going straight. The movie was definitely more suspenseful it kept you on the edge of your seat wondering if Fiona was going to get injected or would Jonas be able to reach the boundary of memories in time to save her.
The things in the movie that were the same as the book were the fact that the houses were all the same weird shape. The age in the community that you first received a bicycle were also the same. The clothes were the same color as in the book and movie but in different