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Compare And Contrast Call Of The Wild
Call of The Wild is a novel by Jack London about a sled dog. People have made many different versions of movies based on the book. One of the most famous versions is one where the whole movie is based on John Thornton during the entirety of the movie. The original book and this movie are quite similar in ways but they are also very different in other ways. But the most important detail is shared between the two stories and that is the main idea. In the book the main protagonist is Buck, but that is not so in the movie. John Thornton is the main character in the movie, and Buck is a side character. In both stories Buck goes wild and loses his liking for humans and he even stoops low enough to kill them at the end, and he likes it. Both stories

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