Movie vs Book

In the book and the movie The Giver they have different endings. In the book it tells you that Jonas went down the hill with Gabe and he started to hear music and then the book ends with, “Behind him, across vast distance 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 quote means that Jonas heard music, but he doesn't know if it was an echo. It also explains that Jonas might have crossed the boundary of memories and shows the community receiving the memories. In the movie it shows you that Jonas goes down the hill with Gabe and he crossed the boundary of memories and the other scene shows The Giver explaining love and how it feels to the chief elders and he talks about the memories how we could feel different emotions from them. Once Jonas crosses the boundary of memories everyone starts seeing the memories and color. Then Jonas gets to the end of the hill and he sees the house with people inside it singing that is when he hears the music, but he thinks it was only an echo then the movie ends with Jonas saying that he will return to the community.


In the movie The Giver the director shows us the community differently than it is in the book. I think that the director changed the community to make it more futuristic because in the book it's in the ground, but in the movie it's floating in mid air. I think that he decided to make it like this is because in the movie Jonas escaped with Gabe on the bike and they started chasing after them. Jonas goes to where The Giver lives and he peddled as hard as he could until he fell off the community with Gabe on the bike everybody thought that he was dead, but he kept on going so that they wouldn't find him. This changes the story because once Jonas fell of the edge of the community the chief elder send his friend Asher to go find him because Jonas was still alive Asher found him and he carried him into the water to help him. Then Jonas started walking a lot to get to the boundary of memories that is the story changes with the community floating in the air.


The novel most impacted my understanding of The Giver because it explains everything more clearly. In the book we had to read a lot to get how The Giver explains the memories to Jonas and how it makes him feel, but in the movie The Giver explains everything way earlier to Jonas. That is one thing that I really didn't like about the movie it shows everything early and in the book we had to read a lot of pages to understand what was going on. In the book I really understood it better than the movie in the movie they changed a lot of things that wasn't in the book and they added some scenes that through me off at first, but they turned out to be really awesome and entertaining. What I really liked about the movie that it showed when Jonas was on the sled with Gabe and the scene switches to The Giver talking about how the memories are good that is one thing that I wish that was in the book. Instead of it ending it with Jonas hears music, but he thinks he was an echo.