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Differences Between The Giver Book And Movie
The Giver In the quiet night, four policemen pursue a fleeing suspect. Suddenly he jumps into the abyss. In the book the giver, I thought the book was more interesting because because even though the book had less action. In the movie, asher was a drone pilot, but in the book he was a recreations director. I both the book and the movie jonas can see red which is gradual.
I personally think the movie is less interesting than the movie.

Asher was a drone pilot but in the book he was a recreation director. In the movie, helped jonas escape by not dropping him onto a hard surface. On his second day of going to the giver jonas receives a hologram message from the chief elder. She was curious and asked jonas about his training, after implying that he cannot share his training, he later confesses that he and the giver sit in chairs and sit in silence. If there was one thing I could change about the movie is ot let fiona and asher keep their old jobs.
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The movie showed the characters showing less emotion even though I could see it visually on a screen. I think the reason the book did a better job than the movie. This is partly from my brain imagining the scenes with more detail and also 75% of the movie was black and white. In the movie when he is sliding down the hill he does not enter the christmas house which was a huge disappointment. The movie skipped through many days and cut to the part when jonas was going to escape the community. I think the reason the movie was shorter so the more exciting scenes could be more

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