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The Similarities Between The Book 'The Giver'
The Giver The similarities between the book and movie, The Giver, is that for their transportation they used bikes because they didn’t want anyone getting hurt or into crashes. Not to mention at one point Gabriel spent some of his nights at Jonas’s house. Also somewhere around the end of the book the Giver mentioned that his daughter is Rosemary. The last similarity I found was in the end when Jonas ran away from the community he brought Gabriel with him The difference between the book and the movie is in the movie they had to get an injection but in the book they had to take pills. Another difference between the two is in the book the Giver and Jonas had out when and how Jonas was going to escape but in the movie, Jonas came up with the
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