Giver Movie vs Book

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The Giver Novel versus Movie Despite the difference between the two, The Giver, by Lois Lowery is more successful than the movie version of The Giver, screen written by Michael Mitnick. Some people may say that the movie is better but actually the novel is the real winner. Mitnick the screenwriter of the movie made a lot of changes from the novel to make the story more appealing to the audience. There are a lot of reasons he made those changes. The effects of the changes made the movie appealing also. The novel version has a lot of events and details that the reader likes. At the end of the book when Jonas is sledding down the hill with Gabriel he falls down and falls asleep when he reaches the bottom. That event shows suspense to keep the reader interested in hopes to get them to read the next novel. Another event is when the children play the game of war. This shows that the 12’s like to act like childish. A detail about Jonas is that he is 12 and its shows how kids play games at 12 years of age but, it makes you wonder why the children are getting a “job” at 12. The events in the novel version were very appealing to the readers. The movie version has a lot of events and details that appeal to the viewers like the novel. In the movie version it has Jonas at 18 years to make it more believable for a kid to have a job. An event that the movie version left out was the 12’s playing the game of war. This was left out since the kids are 18 and they do not play games at 18. In the movie Asher’s “job” is drone a lot and when Jonas leaves the community Asher catches him and drags Jonas into the water to let Jonas reach the Boundary of Memory, so he can give the memories back to the people. The movie version of The Giver has many events that appeal to the audience. Some of the effects of the differences are not appealing to the audience and some are. One difference
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