Transformation of The Giver Novel into Film by Phillip Noyce

Abstract

There are numerous ways to adapt a literary work. One of them is adapting
literary work from the novel into the film. This article is about Lois
Lowry’s novel The Giver, which was adapted into a film with the same
title by Phillip Noyce. During the adaptation process, transformations in
the intrinsic elements were discovered. This transformation can occur due
to differences in media, which was originally in the form of text (novel) to
audiovisual (film). This article aims to discover the transformations that
occurred during adaptation as well as the motive of the adapter. Several
steps were taken to accomplish this goal. The first step is to classify the
discovered differences into tables. The transformations are then analyzed
in the second step to determine the visible ideology. Third, the adapter’s
motives can be identified using the ideology that has been discovered. The
theory of adaptation and mythology is the one employed in this article.
In order to identify ideology, the mythology theory is used to analyze
differences. Afterward, using the identified ideology, the adapter’s motives
are discovered using the adaptation theory. The final result of the adaptation
of The Giver novel depicted several ideologies including totalitarianism,
liberalism, and freedom. The visible motives are personal and political
motives and economic lures.