If you enjoy being in control and need prefection, to the maximum, you may be the creator of sameness. Sameness is a process brought about by the elders and founders of the Communities. Sameness; the removal of all things that create differences such as the ability to see color, have weather, even down to not being able to pick out your own clothes, and Communities; the areas where everyone is located, are all from Lois Lowry’s The Giver. Within this utopic society, our main character, Jonas, lives in his community where sameness is present. In this society, your jobs are assigned and Jonas gets assigned as the Receiver of Memory, the most pristegious position according to the community, but what’s hidden inside the title can provide immense joy or immense pain. The book to movie …show more content…
The differences werer most apparent in these ways, Fiona was assigned as a Caretaker of the Old in the book, the age of the characters were dramatically increasaed in the movie, and the sense of a utopic society was stripped away in the movie. It is highly apparent that the book is indeed better than the movie counterpart. In the original novelization of The Giver, Fiona, one of Jonas’s friends was assinged as a Caretaker of the Old at the House of the Old. In this novel, when people get old enough to where they’re done with their jobs, they go to a place called the House of the Old. There, they’re treated very well till they get released, a term that doesn’t flat out say lethal injection bur of corse no one in the society knows that it is death. In the book, it’s not very significant what job she’s assigned, but in the movie, it makes a big difference. In the movie, the teenage forbidden love angle is played up quite significantly. In the book, going along with sameness and the