Call Of The Wild: Comparing The Book And Movie

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The book “The Call Of The Wild” is about a dog who tries to find his true nature as Buck is traded by many different owners during the Yukon gold rush. John Thornton came to the Yukon to find gold and to prove his father wrong. On the way, he finds a dog named Buck but then loses him by betting, but later on finds and saves him. After he finds him, John tries to find gold and become rich while Buck is finding his new home and adapting to the Wild, but not on purpose. In the book and the movie, “The Call of the Wild” it shows a lot of differences and similarities in how the story is told and what happens. In the book and movie Buck started following his primal instincts and became wild, Buck was stolen and sold for money to be a sled dog by the gardener Buck in the movie created a burrow like the wolves that he was …show more content…

Buck started to go wild and hang with wolves with whom they have a lot in common.Even though there are a lot of similarities there are a lot of differences too. The first main difference was that in the book it was in third person and was only about buck so it had no background information on John Thornton. John Thornton was an older man who was just looking for a gold buck and ended up saving a buck from a stubborn and ignorant man who died on the Yukon trail. In the movie John Thornton is trying to prove his father wrong, and goes to the Yukon trail to prove that he can make it on his own. This changes the plot and characters because we know John's background story and where he came from. And not everything that bucks does. Because Buck is an animal and at the time this movie was created, there were a lot of other movies with dogs

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