The Giver Movie vs Book

In The Giver it tells you that Jonas goes down the hill and started to hear music and then the book ends off with “Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.”(180). This explains that Jonas heard music but doesn’t know if it was an echo or not. It also explains that Jonas might of went past the boundary of memories only to realize that he found the cabin he saw in the memories. In The Giver movie on the same part as the book. It shows that Jonas crossed the boundary of memory and shows the community receiving the memories. He stops the sled only to realize that the cabin he saw in the memory was real. He started to walk towards and then says “I started to Hear music from the cabin. Perhaps it was just an echo.” This quote explains that Jonas realized that after he went past the boundary of memories he started to think that fiona and the community was finally safe. These parts of The Giver are different from each other because in the book it doesn’t tell you if he crossed the boundary it only explains that he went down the hill and heard music. While in the movie it shows that Jonas went past the boundary and shows the community receiving the memories and then finds out the cabin is real and hears music coming from it. This is different because the movie showed more details than the book while the movie showed what happened when he went down the hill and in the book it talks about Jonas sliding down the hill and hearing music.

The community in The Giver movie was different than the book because it didn’t talk about the technology the community in the book had. In the book it also never mentioned what the community he lived in looks like while in the movie it reveals it’s taken place in a floating platform. The community is also syfy based in the movie and I think this changed the story because since they have this technology they could easily find out what Jonas is up to and this could’ve lead to Jonas getting caught earlier making him fail his plan to change the community. This also affects the story because the memories and emotions are basically being erased by the injections shown in the movie and the drone that Asher used to help Jonas escape could also affect the story because if he didn’t help Jonas he would’ve been killed or probably brought back to the community to be released as well as Gabe.

I think that the book made me have an impact on what's going on more than the movie because the book explains more about The story than the movie like characters, plot, location and even the emotions that the characters were feeling. It also shows more about the community and more about who Jonas is and why he’s doing all these things in the book while in the movie it just fast forwards into the part where things get complicated making it very confusing to understand because there is no origin on why or how this happened. The book also shows extra details and more interactions that the character faces.