The Giver Book And Movie Analysis

The book and the movie of The Giver are quite different, but are similar in various ways. One of the first things I noticed was that the setting in The Giver was very different from the book to the movie. In the book, the community seemed almost old-fashioned (besides the genetic engineering), while in the movie, the whole place was very futuristic and used a great deal of technology. Similarly, both communities included the boundary and Elsewhere. From the book, I imagined that the community was just separated from anywhere else by a wall. In contrast, in the movie the community appeared to be a floating island, not really connected to anything else. The setting was quite different, and setting is very important to the whole storyline …show more content…
In the book, he is a twelve male with pale eyes. The pale eyes are a sign of the capacity to see beyond. In the book, no one in the community can see color, so there wasn’t much description of color in his physical appearance, just shades. Instead, Jonas in the movie is around an eighteen and has brown eyes. Instead of the pale eyes, Jonas has a birthmark on his arm that shows he has the capacity to see beyond. That is either the reason for why the giver and jonas transmit memories through hands or the other way around. Later in the movie, you can see everything in color, and he looked almost what I had expected. Brown hair is what I thought he would have (and he did), and of course the eyes should have been a paler color such as blue. He was taller, but that was because he was an eighteen in the movie. There weren’t that many differences in how he looked, and the few differences were mainly because of the color and the change of …show more content…
The movie changed a large portion of what was written in the book to make it more dramatic. The book seemed more intriguing and descriptive of what was going on. Unless you had already read the book, the movie wouldn’t have made much sense. The movie just reminds me of every other typical movie. The book was unique and seemed to have much more suspense to it. The suspense is almost what really makes a story a story. It needs to be fun to listen to and read. Just because the movie was more dramatic, doesn’t mean that it was better