The Giver Movie vs. Book Blog

     In the book The Giver and in the movie The Giver there are two scenes in both that are very different, that scene is the Ceremonies. In The Giver movie it diverts from the book a lot. We are going to examine what happened in the Ceremony in the movie and see what is different. In the movie Ceremony is very different from the book version. In the movie Jonas is around 17 to 18 years old. Same with Fiona and Asher. Now to get to the ceremony. It starts off with the “Ceremony for Release to Elsewhere.” A minor diversion from the book as that is a separate ceremony from the Ceremonies that happen in December. They don’t state when it takes place in the movie. Then after that there is the Naming. Which happens in the book. After that point the movie is spot on but then we get the Ceremony of Nine in which Lily partakes with. Then we have the main ceremony. The Ceremony of 18 because I think that is how old Jonas is in the movie. Jonas’s birth number is 52 instead of what it was in the book. Also when Jonas wasn’t called there was a hush in the crowd like it was described in the book. In the movie The Giver they divert from the book it was based off of. One of those examples was the Ceremony scene. We have seen what the Ceremony was like in the movie now where are going to see what they got wrong. In the book the Ceremonies take place in December something the movie forgets to mention. In the book the Ceremonies kick off with the naming. The Ceremony of Release is a small ceremony of the old. The Ceremony of Release can also happen anytime. Also in the book Jonas is 12 while in the movie he is 18. A huge age gap. Also another difference between the book and the movie is that Lily is 8 years old in the book but she is 9 in the movie. They also had the Ceremony of Twelve of the other ceremony in the movie. Also Jonas’s birth number was 19 instead of 52.
     In the movie version of The Giver we finally get to see what the community looks like. In The Giver movie we see what the community looks like. It was nothing like I imagined. The community in The Giver gives us the reason certain thing happened and did not happen. We know about the rules and such but we have never been or seen the community. But when we saw the movie we saw what the director visualized in his head to be the community. He imagined it to be a sci-fi community. Which is nothing I imagined in my head. I imagined the community to be just like our community but a little be downgraded. But we got a sci-fi inspired town. It was probably to advance the plot and story of the movie later on but still I didn't like the change.
     In the book and movie The Giver, the ending is very different from each other. In The Giver, both the book and movie endings are different. We are now going to find out how they are different. First thing, first. The ending in the movie is surprisingly better than in the book. Now, I'm not saying that the movie is better than the book but you have to give them credit, Another thing is that he are given a satisfying ending in the movie. We find out where Jonas and Gabe are and how they are doing. We see what happens to the memories when they are released from Jonas and back into the community. But in the book we are given a ending that doesn't really satisfy or really deserving for a book like The Giver. We don't get to see what happens with the Giver or the community and the book just ends abruptly. It is overall a underwhelming end for such a good book. We don't see anyone else's point of view besides Jonas’s which I don't really like. Also in the movie Jonas and Gabe aren't weak, and starving like in the book. But in some sense the ending for the movie is also kinda bad because when Jonas gets the memories to come back to the community he sees a house which for a story perspective doesn't make any sense. We know that the only humans and buildings and in the communities. There is nothing but nature in Elsewhere but in the movie we see a house that presumably has people in it just sitting there. It doesn't make sense.