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	Twelve (book) Eighteen (movie)

	Female

	5'3

	Red



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Fiona is a character in The Giver . She was assigned to be a Caretaker of the Old because she is gentle and careful. She is cheerful and eager to help old people at the Home, and is also Jonas and Asher 's best friend. She is the main subject of Jonas's Stirrings . She has dark eyes like almost all of the others in the Community and has red hair.

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She is Jonas 's and Asher 's friend, and was assigned to be a Caretaker of the Old in her community. It was revealed she had red hair when Jonas had started seeing colors. She later becomes the object of Jonas' Stirrings afterwards, but this is unreciprocated on her part due to not having emotions. Jonas does not get the chance to say goodbye to her when he decides to take Gabriel away from the Community.

When Matty asks Leader (Jonas) if he ever loved a girl when he was his age, Leader tells him there was a girl once, when he was young. Matty questions her fate, and Leader replies that she changed, implying he and Fiona may have reunited at some point or she gained the past memories and emotions after Jonas left.

Film Adaptation

In The Giver (2015) , Fiona is portrayed by Odeya Rush. Because in the movie light eyes have nothing to do with the Receiver of Memory , Fiona has light eyes instead of dark eyes. Like the other Twelves in the film, Fiona is 18 in the film, instead of 12. Since Larissa is taken out of the film, there is no longer a need for Fiona to be Caretaker of the Old, so she is a nurturer. Fiona is adapted to be a love interest for Jonas in the movie and assists him with his and Gabe's escape. She is later apprehended for this and is nearly released before Jonas gives the memories back to the community.

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The Giver Character Analysis

Jonas is the protagonist, or main character, in the novel. He is a sensitive, polite, compassionate 12-year-old boy. Jonas is a dynamic character. He changes during the course of the novel due to his experiences and actions. We know how Jonas changes because Lowry narrates The Giver in the third person, limited omniscient viewpoint in order to reveal Jonas' thoughts and feelings. When the novel begins, Jonas is as unconcerned as anyone else about how he is living. He has grown up with loudspeakers, rules, precise language, and a family that is not connected biologically. He has accepted this way of life, because he doesn't know any other type of existence.

At the December Ceremony, Jonas is selected to become the new Receiver of Memory, the most honored position in the community. As he receives the Giver's memories and wisdom, he learns the truth about his community, that it is a hypocrisy and that the people have voluntarily given up their individuality and freedom to live as robots. Jonas' character changes and becomes more complex. He experiences an inner conflict because he misses his old life, his childhood, and his innocence, but he can't return to his former way of life because he has learned too much about joy, color, and love. Jonas knows that his life can never be "ordinary" again.

Jonas is also frustrated and angry because he wants his fellow citizens to change and thereby give up Sameness. He knows that the community and each person's life will benefit if only they would — or could — reclaim their individuality. Jonas realizes that his life would no longer be worth living if he were to continue living in the community as it is. To save the people in the community from their own senseless inhumanity, Jonas, an extremely courageous and brave character, risks his life. He flees the community with the baby, Gabriel. Jonas is afraid, but he is prepared to fight for their survival. Although we do not know how Jonas' experiences ultimately affect him or his community, we do know that he matures and that he feels excited and joyful as he and Gabriel ride down the hill on the sled.

The Giver, an elderly man with a beard and pale eyes like Jonas', is the current Receiver of Memory. He carries the burden of the memories of the world, and suffers from the pain contained within the memories. Because The Giver is unable to share his work with anyone in the community (they would never understand), he is lonely. His life is totally different from the lives of other citizens in the community. He lives in rooms called the Annex, rooms unlike the dwellings of the other community members. He can lock his door and turn off the speaker; he has luxurious fabrics on his furniture and walls lined with shelves from top to bottom, holding thousands of books. These amenities isolate The Giver from other people living in the community.

The Giver is cynical and frustrated because he knows that the people gave up too much when they chose Sameness. As The Giver begins to transmit memories to Jonas, Jonas becomes upset. The Giver is surprised at the intensity of Jonas' feelings and the insight that Jonas already has about the philosophy of Sameness. Jonas mirrors the feelings The Giver has had for years. He admits that he's "never been able to think of a way" to force the people to accept memories, a statement that indicates that The Giver, like Jonas, wants to do away with Sameness in the community.

The Giver works with Jonas to develop a plan to do away with Sameness. He agrees to be available to help the people cope with their newly found memories. However, that is not enough for The Giver. He longs to be with his daughter, Rosemary, the earlier Receiver-in-Train-ing who chose release over living a lonely and isolated life like The Giver. The Giver is telling Jonas that he intends to commit suicide. Because Lowry has written an ambiguous ending to the novel, we don't know what happens to The Giver.

Jonas' mother is an intelligent, sympathetic, and understanding person. She holds a prominent position at the Department of Justice. One of her job responsibilities is to punish people for breaking the strictly enforced rules of the community. According to Jonas, "her work never seem[s] to end." She always works after the family has had their evening meal.

Jonas' mother is proud that he has been named the new Receiver. She understands that it is the most prestigious position in the community, but, like other community members, she is unaware of the work Jonas will be doing. Throughout the novel, nothing seems to faze Jonas' mother. She systematically follows the rules of the community and, at the conclusion of the novel, she is exactly the same as she was at the beginning.

Jonas' father is a shy, quiet, considerate, caring man. He is a Nurturer, responsible for the physical and emotional needs of every newborn child during the first few months of life. He is also responsible for the release (killing) of infants who are deemed worthless because something is emotionally and/or physically wrong with them.

Jonas' father does give the newborns every opportunity to flourish. He takes the newborn Gabriel home to live with his family in hopes of enabling the baby to sleep during the night and gain weight, thereby foregoing release.

Like other community members, Jonas' father follows the rules of the community. He is also a static, unchanging character.

Lily is Jonas' younger sister. She is a typically impatient child with straightforward, fairly simple feelings. Lily is also a chatterbox, talking continuously about subjects of interest to her. She is unconcerned about neatness, her hair ribbons are always untied, and because she is only seven (she becomes an Eight at the December Ceremony), she has many rules yet to learn.

Lily and Jonas behave like most brothers and sisters. They tease and become annoyed with one another from time to time. After Jonas has started to receive memories from the Giver, he tries to give Lily the memory of the being of an elephant (her comfort object is a stuffed elephant), but Lily complains that Jonas is hurting her because he is holding her shoulders too tightly. Lily is uninterested and unable to understand what Jonas implies when he talks to her about the fact that real elephants actually existed. She is also a one-dimensional character in The Giver .

Asher is Jonas' best friend. He is a cheerful, friendly boy who makes a game out of everything. Asher has always had trouble following the rules perfectly. He is often late for school and, as a result, has had to make numerous public apologies. The people in the community easily forgive Asher for his imperfections, because they like and enjoy him.

At the Ceremony of Twelve, Asher is assigned to be Assistant Director of Recreation. Because Jonas is selected to be the new Receiver of Memory, an honored position in the community, Asher is unsure how he should treat his friend and is hesitant to treat Jonas as he did during their years growing up together.

Fiona is one of Jonas' good friends. She is a very pretty girl who is sensitive, intelligent, quiet, and polite. At the Ceremony of Twelve, Fiona is assigned to be Caretaker of the Old. Jonas accompanies Fiona as they ride their bicycles to their new assignments. Fiona talks to Jonas about her assignment and the new tasks that she will have to learn. Unfortunately, Jonas can not talk about his assignment as the Receiver of Memory. Jonas realizes that their relationship will change; however, Fiona is not emotionally affected by Jonas' silence. She is a static char-acter — nothing happens within Fiona, things happen to her.

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The people who live in Jonas' community are very predictable and unchanging. These characters are uncomplicated and complacent. They are static, simple, one-dimensional characters. Because the majority of them do not change throughout the novel, we see only one part of their personalities — their surface appearances and actions. Nothing happens within static characters; things happen to them.

Most of the citizens in the community passively follow the rules of the community. They always do what they are told by the Committee of Elders, following the rules and reprimands that are blasted over the loudspeakers located throughout the community and in every family dwelling. The people are totally controlled by the Committee of Elders as a result of a decision, a long time ago, to choose Sameness over individuality. The lives of the community members have been exactly the same for years. Nothing has ever happened to them except when an earlier Receiver-in-training, Rosemary, asked for release because she no longer could tolerate living in the community. After her death, the people were in total chaos because they didn't know what to do with the memories that Rosemary had experienced. They were not accustomed to thinking for themselves. Experiencing Rosemary's memories was something that happened to the people. Afterward, they resumed their lives as before, so it is evident that nothing permanently changed within them. Because Lowry has written an ambiguous ending, the changes that might have occurred as a result of Jonas' departure from the community are left to the imagination of each reader.

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Fiona is one of Jonas' closest friends in The Giver . She is hardworking, dedicated to her community, and very friendly. It is implied multiple times in the novel that Jonas has budding romantic feelings for her, but he has to leave her behind when he runs away from their community.

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7 ways The Giver movie is different than the book

by Brandon Ambrosino

Brenton Thwaites, Odeya Rush in 'The Giver.'

Screen adaptations of books never stick to the source material completely, and the big screen version of The Giver is no exception. W hile the story is very similar to the one Lois Lowry wrote in her award-winning novel, the differences between the two versions are noticeable. Here are 7 of them.

1) The film over-delivers on explanation

It's a bit unfair to start with this one because film, by virtue of its medium, cannot be as subtle as literature (for the most part). But one of the things I appreciate about Lowry's writing is that the mystery of Jonas's world is very slow to unfold. In the film, almost an entire third of Lowry's book happens on-screen within the first few scenes. Characters are developed very quickly, and, as a result, the film loses some of the uneasy ambiguity of the book. Granted, because films are limited by time, they have to be more fast-moving than books, which can take a few pages or even chapters to hint at one minor plot point.

2) On screen, Jonas is a (hunky) young man

In the book, much is made about characters' ages. In fact, in the world of The Giver , the calendar seems to center on a Ceremony which marks the aging of children from one year to the next. When the book opens, Jonas is about to become a Twelve, which means he will be given his community Assignment. Jonas' young age makes him the prefect protagonist for a story in which he discovers the depth of human emotion as he simultaneously expands his vocabulary. By making the movie Jonas slightly older — 16 years old — the film loses some of the innocent quality of the Lowry's hero. Still, it's worth noting that Brenton Thwaites does bring a youthful naivety and charm to the role, and so Lowry's vision remains largely intact.

3) Meryl Streep's character was a much smaller part of the book

Streep is absolute gold and her character was a great addition to the movie. But you should know that the character she's based on, the Chief Elder, isn't nearly as important a character in Lowry's novel.

4) Jonas doesn't kiss Fiona in the book

Unsurprisingly, the Jonas/Fiona relationship was given the Hollywood Young Adult Movie treatment. In the book, there are hints that Jonas does have strong but unexplained feelings toward Fiona (Odeya Rush) — the book calls the feelings "Stirrings." The fact that Jonas is able to "see beyond" the gray color of Fiona's hair to its original red also suggests that the two of them share a special bond. But in the book, he doesn't really act on his Stirrings toward Fiona, probably because, well, he's only a Twelve.

5) Fiona isn't assigned to be a Nurturer in the book

This one might not seem like it changes anything about the overall story, and I mostly agree. There is, however, one small part of me that wishes Hollywood would have kept its hands off Fiona's Assignment. In the book, the job Fiona ends up getting assigned to is something much less sexy than the job of taking care of babies. In Lowry's original story, Fiona is assigned to be a Caretaker of the Old.

That means the young Twelve is tasked with caring for the elderly of her society, with bathing them and helping make them as comfortable as possible just before they are euthanized, or "released." Obviously, it would have been difficult to show Fiona and Jonas bathing naked old people, and so it makes sense that this part was written out. At the same time, Lowry's novel stands as a warning to a society that seems to have a certain disregard for its elders, an element the film loses.

6) Asher isn't a pilot, and Jonas doesn't punch him

Again, this was a strategic change made to help with the momentum of the film adaptation. In the book, Asher (Cameron Monaghan) is assigned to be the Assistant Director of Recreation. On screen, he's made a Pilot, which helps add an additional layer of drama to the end of the film when Jonas flees from the authorities, and Asher is sent to search for him.

7) The film's ending is less ambiguous than the book's

Both versions of the story end with Jonas and Gabe sledding down a snowy mountain toward a home that the Giver had showed him in a previous memory. The way that the book ends makes it uncertain as to whether or not the two children actually make it to the abode. In the film, the last shot deliberately features Jonas, babe in tow, walking up to the snow-covered home. The variation between the two endings is slight, but it's worth noting that Lowry's final paragraphs probably had less appeal to producers than the one that ended up on the big screen.

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