Call Of The Wild Compare And Contrast Essay
What I am writing about today is a compare and contrast essay over a book and its movie. The short but reasonable book is called “The Call of the Wild” by Jack London. The book and one of its many versions of movie have numerous amounts of differences, but with those differences there are similarities. “The Call of the Wild” is about a muscular, loving, and family dog whom is called upon the name Buck, and Buck is brought into the Klondike region as a part of a team of sled-dogs. The movie version has the same topic but it is set up different. One of the massive and noticeable differences is how John Thornton is brought into the story. In the book version you don’t even meet John Thornton until the fifth chapter after he saves Bucks’
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One of the major similarities is the protagonist and the antagonist, Buck the protagonist and Spitz the antagonist. Buck has to be the protagonist in both the book because he is the hero, the dog that freed every single sled-dog from the fear of Spitz. Spitz is the antagonist in both stories because Spitz is the dog that is destined to battle Buck. Spitz is destined to battle Buck because they are both fit for leadership and there can only be one alpha in a pack. There is one more similarity that stands out. How John Thornton dies at the end of chapter seven. John is shot with arrows by the Yeehat tribe while Buck is away from the cabin one night. John Thornton is killed that way in both the movie and the book. Johns death was very important to the story because Buck loved and cared for him very much, and Buck never wanted John to leave him. All those differences and similarities make up “The Call of the Wild”. Like I said the book and the movie have differences, but they still have the same story to tell people. To tell the story of how Buck was brought into the Primitive wild, how he learned The Law of Club and Fang, and how Buck learned that Judge Miller Place wasn’t so good after all. What I wrote about was to compare and contrast these two versions over the
One of the major similarities is the protagonist and the antagonist, Buck the protagonist and Spitz the antagonist. Buck has to be the protagonist in both the book because he is the hero, the dog that freed every single sled-dog from the fear of Spitz. Spitz is the antagonist in both stories because Spitz is the dog that is destined to battle Buck. Spitz is destined to battle Buck because they are both fit for leadership and there can only be one alpha in a pack. There is one more similarity that stands out. How John Thornton dies at the end of chapter seven. John is shot with arrows by the Yeehat tribe while Buck is away from the cabin one night. John Thornton is killed that way in both the movie and the book. Johns death was very important to the story because Buck loved and cared for him very much, and Buck never wanted John to leave him. All those differences and similarities make up “The Call of the Wild”. Like I said the book and the movie have differences, but they still have the same story to tell people. To tell the story of how Buck was brought into the Primitive wild, how he learned The Law of Club and Fang, and how Buck learned that Judge Miller Place wasn’t so good after all. What I wrote about was to compare and contrast these two versions over the