Stephen King once said, “Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They are both fruit, but taste completely different.” There are many astonishing differences between the movie and the book The Giver. Jonas being eighteen years old in the movie and twelve years in the book is an example of a difference. A similarity between the novel and the film is that they both share Jonas, Fiona, and Asher as being close friends. The book The Giver and the movie The Giver have many thrilling similarities. As well as the novel, the movie has the incredible feature of starting out in black and white. Deborah Ellis, the author of the novel The Giver, starts out with the book in black and white because the Chief Elder has taken all of the magnificent …show more content…
In the movie, Jonas and his friend, Fiona, share many more experiences, and have a relationship instead of in the novel where the two are just friends. The first time they kissed was in the triangle after Jonas told Fiona to not take her injections so that she could feel her emotions. Then they slide down a rail bridge with trays, and it is and unforgettable moment for Fiona. At the end of the story, Jonas invites Fiona to come with him on his adventure, but she immediately refuses. After the invitation Jonas and Fiona once again lock lips. At the ceremony in the book Jonas is number nineteen, but in the movie he is number fifty-three. As Deborah Ellis states in the novel, newborns are assigned numbers when they are born. They say it’s a bike that they transport with in the book; however it’s really a motorcycle that Phillip Noyce, the director of the movie The Giver, uses in the movie. In the book, bicycles are given out at the Ceremony of the …show more content…
In the book, Asher and the Chief Elder seem to be closer to Jonas and friendlier to other people. On the other hand, Chief Elder seems to be a villain. Chief Elder is always to somehow trying to get rid of The Giver. At the end, she tells Asher to take down his best friend, Jonas. Asher does things like throwing Jonas down the river, and stopping him from leaving his house at night. Asher seems to be jealous of Jonas’s relationship with Fiona. Fiona has a different job in the movie than in the novel. Even though she got the job she expected to in both the film and book, in the novel she works at the House of the Old, and then in the movie she works at the Nurturing Center. Jonas in the book receives his first memory on his back. However, in the movie he gets his first memory on his upper-hand. A difference that changes up the view of the series is Jonas being eighteen in the movie and twelve in the novel. This changes the whole perspective of the series because it helps you understand the decisions of Jonas better. If Jonas was twelve he wouldn’t be able to be brave enough and make the excellent decisions throughout his adventure with
Jonas began to stop taking the injection each morning after a while, because he liked the way the Stirrings made him feel warm inside. Jonas also found a way to trick the system into skipping the daily injection by putting a drop of his blood on an apple and then putting the apple on the injector. This would make the system inject the serum to stop the Stirrings in the apple instead of Jonas. He convinced Fiona to do this too because he wanted her to feel the same way he felt towards her. This shows that Fiona trusts Jonas because she was breaking a major rule of the community. In the book, Jonas hardly ever talks to Fiona about the Stirrings and does not trick the system. He just decides to stop taking the pills. Overall, this makes the whole movie more dramatic and intense.
“Allegory of the Cave”, by Plato, explains how reality is different for everyone. All of us do not have the same view of what reality really is. Most of us like to believe in what we see, like the shadows on the cave. We are like the prisoners, chained up from our feet to our necks. For example; in "The Giver", by Lois Lowry, the community selects jobs for each and every citizen. Jonas, the main character, was given an important job. He was the Receiver of Memory. The person that gives him memories is called the Giver. He gives Jonas memories from the past Givers/Receivers. The Giver and Jonas, in their society, see a different perspective of their world. The memories of pain, hatred and happiness were taken away from every citizen from the community. However, they are the only ones that see color in their world and know the truth behind the mask of their own world, while all the other people see the world as a plain and black-and –white world.
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The Giver and Matched are both futuristic societies with a lot of rules. In The Giver the Elders choose their match as well as their children. Jonas starts loving Fiona but isn’t allowed and stops taking the pill. In Matched the officials choose their match but they can have their own children. Cassia is matched with Xander but also loves Ky and doesn't know what to do. In both story they all get jobs for the rest of their lives but in Matched they just call it vocations. Jonas gets the Receiver of memory and Cassia is supposed to be the sorter.
The Giver: Analysis of Jonas On the surface, Jonas is like any other eleven-year-old boy living in his community. He seems more intelligent and perceptive than many of his peers, and he thinks more seriously than they do about life, worrying about his own future as well as his friend Asher’s. He enjoys learning and experiencing new things: he chooses to volunteer at a variety of different centers rather than focusing on one, because he enjoys the freedom of choice that volunteer hours provide. He also enjoys learning about and connecting with other people, and he craves more warmth and human contact than his society permits or encourages. The things that really set him apart from his peers—his unusual eyes, his ability to see things change in a way that he cannot explain—trouble him, but he does not let them bother him too much, since the community’s emphasis on politeness makes it easy for Jonas to conceal or ignore these little differences.
“What happened ten years ago?” Jonas asked. The main character in Lois Lowry novel, The Giver is Jonas, who lives in a Dystopian Society. The problem he forces is that he realizes that the community is hiding many secrets such as what release truly is. During the course of the story Jonas became conscious of what his community is doing to his life. Jonas inherited many different types traits, learning many life lessons and enduring horrible secrets from the community. He thoroughly shows that he was proud of what he is accomplishing such as becoming receiver, sympathetic toward the cruel tactics of releasing the innocent or the guilty, and curious to know how his life is going to change after being presented with his job in the society.
For example, Mama goes to the bank in the movie and is given a hard time about paying her mortgage, but this did not happen in the book. Another major difference is that the school bus scene, where the Logan kids played a trick on the white kids, was not shown in the movie, even though it was an important part of the story. There are some character changes as well. Lillian Jean, Jeremy, R.W, and Melvin are Simms’ in the book, but in the movie they are Kaleb Wallace’s children. However, the main plot difference is how the movie starts in the middle, summarizing everything from the first part of the book very briefly. Additionally, many scenes are switched around and placed out of order. Altogether, the plot and character changes contribute to my unfavorable impression of the
Evelyn Sanchez (esanchez47@student.cccd.edu) Professor Leighton English 143, Final Essay 21 May 21, 2014 What the heck happened to Jonas? Topic #2. The Giver is actually one of my all-time favorite books, so I’ve looked into why she left the book so inconclusive in the past. The Giver is basically about a boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect society. He lives in a household with his two parents and his little sister Lilly.
Have you ever wanted to live in a Utopia? The Giver and The Truman Show both involve Utopias. There are many similarities and differences between the Truman Show and the Giver. First,The Truman Show and The Giver are similar in many ways. One way they are alike is how they both have water to symbolize fear.
You’ll now find out the simularites of the giver and the truman show. Jonas and Truman’s stories are both about them, therefore they are the main characters. They are somewhat alike, but so much different. Both Truman and Jonas plan to escape.
Throughout the history of the world, there has been many societies. All these societies had similar structures and ideas, but they all are different by their own special traditions and ways of life. Similarly, both our society and the society in The Giver share similar ideas, but they are different in certain areas. For example, they both celebrate birthdays and have family units, but they have their own way of doing so. Based on the celebration of birthdays and the formation of family units, our society is better than the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry.
When you get to the beginning, middle, or end u realize they are both very different. The movie and book have a lot in common like they both have the same characters .
The Giver by Lois Lowry and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley have many similarities. They both take place in futuristic utopias where happiness is the overall goal. Jonas and Bernard, the major characters in the novels, are both restless individuals who want change. Despite the close similarities, there are many contrasts in the two novels. The childhood, family, and professions arrangements are differently portrayed in the similar novels The Giver and Brave New World.
The Giver provides a chance that readers can compare the real world with the society described in this book through some words, such as release, Birthmothers, and so on. Therefore, readers could be able to see what is happening right now in the real society in which they live by reading her fiction. The author, Lowry, might build the real world in this fiction by her unique point of view.
To begin the author uses the literary element, foreshadowing, to show that pain comes with happiness. The foreshadowing in The Giver allows you to predict what might happen later in the book. One example of foreshadowing is when Jonas didn’t take the pill. When Jonas did not take the pill, it foreshadowed rebellion in the future. Jonas rebels by going elsewhere and taking a baby that is supposed to be killed. Another example of foreshadowing is when Jonas bathes the old lady, and it shows his love for grandparents. "He liked the feeling of safety here in this warm and quiet room; he liked the expression of trust on the woman’s face as she lay in the water unprotected, exposed, and free," (Lowry, 30). The last example is when Jonas hears about an eleven going elsewhere. "He wondered what lay in the far distance where he had never gone,”(Lowry, 106). Jonas planned to escape elsewhere, and he did. As Jonas rides down the sled he is able to see the lights, the different colors. Jonas has to escape th...