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The Giver Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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The book The Giver depicts a utopian like society where everyone is equal. As well as, describing the lives of those who live there and the faults the community has. Years later The Giver was recreated into a movie adaptation. The book The Giver and the movie, however, contain outrageous differences in plot affecting the overall view the reader/audience have on the story. Including, but not limited too, Fiona’s feelings for Jonas and Jonas’ plan to leave the community. The movie’s interpretation of the book tarnishes key points in the book. Also, changing the message the book is trying to portray, just for the sake of entertainment purposes.

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Jonas, having developed emotions is completely shocked and disturbed that his father could do something so evil. Everything he thought was real and pure changes. He wants everyone in his community to know what their actions mean and how it’s not just. Jonas conveys his thoughts to the Giver and they devises a plan to leave the community. Jonas would take his bike and leave with Gabriel during a community assemble and the Giver would cover for him. The movie depicts a completely different event, one that is much more impulsive. Jonas does watch the same video of his father, but doesn’t decide to leave just then. He goes home to the news of Gabriel’s soon release. Filled with rage he storms out of his family unit and bikes to the Nurturer Center to retrieve Gabe. Running into many obstacles of the way. The movie ending is dramatically different from the books, not including the true nature of the Givers actions. In the book you discover that it was the Giver’s plan to have Jonas be another failure and for him to leave the community. This way he would be released to elsewhere and could be with Rosemary forever in eternity. Therefore, having Jonas’ escape to elsewhere be portrayed as his own plan, doesn’t allow the audience to realize the true intentions of the author when describing their

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