In the book “ The Giver “ and their was a lot of differences. One such difference was in the book when Jonas is escaping, he dosent come in contract with Asher. In the movie, Asher tries to stop him. Jonas didn't let anybody get into his business in that moment. Unfortunately, he got mad that he punched Asher. Another difference was when Jonas is number 19 in the book and he was number 52 in the movie. In chapter 7 it says “ Jonas was nineteen. He had been the nineteenth new child born this year. It had meant that at his naming, he had been already standing and bright - eyed , soon to walk and talk “ p. 50. The quote that I found in page 50 proves to us that Jonas was a different number in the book than in the movie.
On my personal opinion I think that Brenton was not the best option for him to be Jonas. In the movie and in the book he did play the nervous part right but that's was really the only thing that was the same about him in the book and the movie. In the Movie Jonas appears as a 15 year old boy and in the book he is described as a 12 year old boy. But , also not just Jonas was portrayed differently . Asher and Fiona were too. If I was the director of the movie I would've chosen someone more young . After all Brenton did a good job acting on the movie and the way he was in the book as Jonas.
My opinion as I watched the movie and read the book is that the book is better and more understandable than the movie . I liked the book better because it had a lot of events that were really interesting and easy to understand. But as you can see in the movie it was confusing because it was way different than the book. For example in the book there was still a long time for the ceremony to happen and in the movie it started a day before the ceremony. According to this example it's one of the reasons why I liked the book better. Also I liked the book better because it had more details and it was more interesting to actually imagine. Another part of the movie that I didn't like was that in the book they describe him as a 12 year old boy but in the movie he looks like if he was 14 or 15.
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