Did you know that Lois Lowry didn’t want a sequel to the original story so she left it as a mystery in the book? This shows how the movie is more powerful than the book because the book didn’t have an ending to the cliffhanger whereas the movie did.
The story “The Giver, by Lois Lowry”, is about a boy named Jonas who has noticed that he sees things that other people don’t. He can’t describe what it is, and he doesn’t say anything to other people so they don’t think he’s crazy and seeing things. Later on, in the book,, Jonas was at his job ceremony of 12 and is named the receiver of memory. When Jonas goes to his job for the first day he meets the giver who will be his teacher until he becomes fully grown. The Giver then starts to give Jonas
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One reason that the movie is better than the book is because of the script. One reason that the movie is better than the book is because of the script. In the book, Fiona and Asher are given the jobs of caretaker of the old and assistant director of recreation, however, in the movie they are given the jobs of Nurturer and Drone Pilot, this proves to be important in the movie because they are both important to helping Jonas take Gabe and run away to restore the community. Fiona being a Nurturer was important because she helped Jonas get Gabe out of the hospital with Jonas, and Asher being a Drone Pilot was important because he was given a job to find Jonas and kill him but he found Jonas and pretended as he killed him so the Chief Elder thought he was dead and would stop looking for him. This makes the movie better because the script of the movie made the jobs of two of the main characters' best friends actually matter instead of the book where their jobs were completely useless and they themselves as characters do not even matter. This impacted me because it made me think about how in life some people are super famous and important and recognized but some people are just as important but are not recognized for what they