Essay On The Differences Between The Giver Book And Movie

To begin with, there were plenty of differences between the novel and movie, but the one that was the most critical was the fact that Jonas was only 12 years old according to Lois Lowry, the writer of The Giver novel. In the text, she states this when she says “Very soon he would not be an Eleven, but a Twelve…”. However, in the movie Jonas was 16. In fact, all of the characters in The Giver film are older than they are in the novel. The director of the Giver most likely couldn’t portray the genuine ages of the characters. This is the most plausible reason because it would be hard to manage to control pre-teen actors, let alone find them. The Giver novel has younger characters but that doesn’t change much. The characters cause almost the exact same sequence of events as in the film.
Notably, The Giver film adaptation of the novel is homogeneous to the novel itself. A definite and noticeable similarity is the resolution, or ending, of both versions of The Giver. In both the novel and the film, Jonas leaves the Community with Gabriel. The …show more content…
Another difference between The Giver novel and film is the fact that Jonas was not pursued in the novel. Contradictory to the novel, he is pursued by security agents and even his friend Asher via drone in the movie. In the movie, the security agents tell Asher, “You know Jonas. I want you to find him.” Jonas was inevitably chased in the movie, but in the novel it’s completely different. He used his memories of snow to lover his body temperature so the heat-seeking planes couldn’t find him and Gabriel. This is proved when the author states in the novel, “So always, when he heard the aircraft sound, he reached to Gabriel and transmitted memories of snow, keeping some for himself. Together they became cold; and when the planes were gone…” Jonas acts different when he is escaping the Community. This is apparent in both the novel and the