Similarities Between The Giver Book And Movie

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The Giver: Movie vs Novel

In 2010, Phillip Noyce made a movie version of Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver in 1993. Both the book and the movie are set in Utopia and tell the story of young boy named Jonas as he embark the journey to become The Giver.
However, Movie and Book have some similarities between both, but movie have much more vision, thus you’re seeing emotions in Movie. Book have lot of detailed information to make us visualise what the Author were thinking about.

The Community in both book and the Movie are mostly similar, the setting for the location is black and white which is in both, however the Ceremonies name is different, for instance, The Ceremony of Nine is the celebrations for nine years old children in the book, but for

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