Point College

Title: Giver

Assignment No.: 2

Date: 02/02/2015

Name: Lee Sweet Wan

Course: Introduction to Scriptwriting

02/02/2015

Monday

Lee Sweet Wan

Giver (2014)Directed by Phillip Noyce

Written by Michael Mitnick

Synopsis

It is a story about a guy named Jonas who live in a world while differences won’t allow and all citizens have had their memory erased except for the Receiver of Memory. Receiver of Memory is the only one who has the memories before. Jonas is 16 year old teenager and he has two best friend which is Asher and Fiona. Later, Jonas been assigned by the Chief Elder to become the Receiver of Memory and progressively receives memories from the pass receiver who called a Giver. Jonas begin to share his findings and emotional with Fiona but she can’t even understand what an emotion is. Besides, Jonas also share his feelings and memories to a baby which his father brought to their house, Gabe. He then discover a close relationship with Gabe. Jonas decided to release the memories back to the community so he sneaks out from his house and his friend Asher tries to stop him but fail. He then go to the Nurturing Center to get Gabe out who to be released due to his general weakness. He meets Fiona who is a Nurturer and tells her his plan and wants her to go with him. She refuses and instead helps him from the escape. Meanwhile, Jonas’ mother and Asher tell the Chief Elder for Jonas’ missing and Chief Elder try so hard to stop him from releasing the memories back to the community. At the end, Jonas success from what he want to do.

Archetypes

The Explorer

- Character: Jonas as the Receiver

- Description: He has been chosen to be the Receiver of Memory and will receive memories from the past receiver. He is only allows to receive the memories and past to the next one but sharing with others. He think that everyone should have their memories of the past and eventually. So he do way more than just sharing with friends but he also decide that the only way that can help the community is to go past the border of what they called Elsewhere, beyond the community, therefore releasing the memories back into the community.

The Caregiver

- Character: The Giver

- Description: He is the one who past the memories to Jonas. He shares not only memories and also feelings with Jonas. In addition, he keeps helping and supporting him for every decision that Jonas makes.

The Ruler

- Character: Chief Elder

- Description: She is the one who control the whole community. She wants all the citizens to have their memories erased so that there is no ‘popular’, no ‘fame’, no ‘losers’ and no ‘winners’ therefore there will be no conflict between the community. She will do everything to stop Jonas from getting all the citizens’ memories back.

The Lover

- Character: Fiona

- Description: She is a friend and lover of Jonas. She is the one who Jonas decides to teach his findings and share the idea of emotions. Besides, she helps Jonas escape from Chief Elder.

- Character: Asher

- Description: He is a friend of Jonas. After Jonas decided to release the memories back into the community, Asher is assigned by the Chief Elder to find Jonas and ‘lose’ him but then he let Jonas go.

The Innocent

- Character: Father

- Description: He is Jonas’ father. He works as a nurturer in a nurturing center who taking care all the new born babies and sometimes will be ‘released’ them to a place they called Elsewhere. But what they call a ‘released’ is actually making them death and all of the citizens that have had their memories erased including Jonas’ father doesn’t know the true meaning. Although he doesn’t know what’s exactly happening on Jonas but he shows his support to Jonas.

The Sage

- Character: Mother

- Description: She is Jonas’ mother. She is also a director of justice. She trust the truth of which Chief Elder shows them and she will obey everything that assigned by the Chief Elder. She will always remind and teach Jonas to use the precisional language for everything.