Compare And Contrast The Call Of The Wild

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The book The Call of the Wild is by the author Jack London. This book has a lot of explicit scenes with different types of fighting and etc. The book The Call of the Wild is very different than the movie. For one part of the book there was a bet going on that Buck would not be able to pull one thousand pounds. But before the final bet came along people had already bet for Buck to pull less than seven hundred pounds. In the movie they started right at one thousand, there was no one from the crowd betting on Buck that he couldn’t do it. Most people in the book was saying that he couldn’t do it but in the movie they had a totally different attitude like cheering him on and telling him he can do it. In the movie they should have made it more like

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