The Giver is a young adult novel by Lois Lowry. The story of Jonas, a young boy who is taken from his community to be trained as the next Receiver of Memory. Jonas learns that he will be responsible for governing the society after the world ends. The Giver movie directed by Philip Noyce. Lois Lowry The Giver book and the movie are different in many ways including changing personalities, emotions and more suspense scenes to make the movie more dramatic compared to the book.
One of the differences from the movie is the different personality changes of the characters compared to the book. Because they wanted the book to be more mature. One of the big things about their lives is waiting to be given the jobs they will do for the rest of their lives. In the movie: “Number 51, Asher. Unruly, careless. Sometimes those most in need of responsibility learn best by being the practitioners of it. Drone Pilot.” Book: “''Asher.'' She lifted her voice to make the official announcement. ''We have given you the Assignment of Assistant Director of Recreation''” (Lowry 56).
Another key example of how the movie
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Movie: “You know Jonas. I want you to find him. And then… I want you to lose him. Jonas. - What are you doing? - Asher, please, let us go. I can't. I'm supposed to...To what? To lose you.” Book: “When the air-craft searchers came, as they did occasionally, during the night as they rode, Jonas sped to the nearest tree or bush, dropped to the ground, and made himself and Gabriel cold”(Lowry 169). The difference between the movie suspense and book suspense. In the movie they used Jonas best friend asher to find and lose him which meant kill jonas which would bring high suspense for any viewer viewing the movie. In the book they just used a regular drone pilot to look for Jones while he was still in the community trying to escape to find the