The Giver: Similarities Between Book And Movie

In the book The Giver, the protagonist Jonas lives in a Utopian society on a future earth where the community has no feelings and emotions. At the ceremony of 12, Jonas is assigned as the Receiver of Memory, a task that only one person receives. He receives memories of love, joy, sadness, and pain and starts to feel these feelings. After a month of training, he watches his father release a baby, he is shocked to find releasing a baby means death for the baby. Jonas finds out that baby Gabe will be released and decides to escape to the place called Elsewhere. Later that night he steals his father's bike and runs away with Gabe on his back to Elsewhere. About a year later Jonas and Gabe enter a forest. At the end of the forest Jonas and Gabe approaches a house and hears music playing softly like an echo. …show more content…
One similarity is that Jonas is the Receiver of Memory. Another is that people are all assigned spouses, children, and homes. Other similarities are that in both the book and movie a baby gets released and The Giver gives Jonas the memories in the book and the movie. My final similarity is that Jonas, Asher, and Fiona are all friends in the book and the movie. While there are many similarities in the book and movie there are also many differences.
In both the book and movie The Giver there are many similarities, but there are also many differences. One is that in the book Jonas receives the memories when The Giver puts his hands on his back but in the movie he puts his hand on his birthmark (Lowry 20-21). Another difference is that in the book Jonas sees the apple change color but in the movie doesn't show that (Lowry 24). Also, another difference is that the book Fiona, Jonas, and Asher are volunteering at the House of the Old but in the movie it is at the Nurturing Center (Lowry 29-30). As you can see, there are many