Compare and Contrast: Call of the Wild Book and Movie Essay

The book and the movie of The Call of the Wild are fairly similar. In both the movie and the book, Buck first lives on Judge Miller’s estate and is kidnapped by Manuel, the gardener. Buck is sold, then disciplined and learns the law of the club. Francois and Perrault, two French men, buy Buck and Buck quickly learns how to pull in a sled. On the way to Dawson, Buck and the lead dog Spitz have a rivalry and Buck

Spitz constantly picks on Buck, wanting to get in a fight with him; Buck, however, resists the challenges from Spitz. Then one time he steals the resting-place that Buck has created for himself. Buck has had enough and attacks Spitz with a vengeance. Francois and Perrault have to separate the two dogs. Although the fight is stopped, the animosity continues, and the two enemies are always in a skirmish. Then one day when Spitz prematurely kills a rabbit that all the dogs have been chasing, Buck attacks again. The battle is fierce, and Buck is losing. He then calls upon his intelligence and imagination to defeat Spitz. Instead of going for his throat, Buck attacks Spitz's front legs, breaking both of them. Once he is down, the other dogs come in for the kill.

     After a long, strenuous winter, a man, his wife and her brother buy the group of dogs. They are newcomers and have no idea how to properly run a sled. They get a late start, (almost spring), and run a very slovenly program. Buck encourages his team on, but the winter was just too hard on them. One by one they die, and Buck begins longing for death himself. When he could not move another step and was being beaten to death, John Thornton steps in and saves his life.

The story takes place in the late 1800’s, during the gold rush. During this time one of the only methods of travel was by dog sled. So everyone was sending dogs to the Klondike to sell. Buck was one of many dogs stolen and shipped up to be sold. Many dogs didn’t make it but others did and they were ran to death.

Buck is a type of dog that doesn’t give give up, he was taken through some of the worst conditions and yet survived them. He was stolen, he was beaten, he was forced to run the entire distance of the Yukon mountain range. But yet he pushed through clung to life as if it was the only thing left that he had.

First, when buck is being attacked by starving huskies. For example, as the group of 100 starving huskies are attacking the camp for food. Since, Buck and his team have to fight off and kill the starving huskies or the huskies will kill Buck and his team for the food. Second, Buck becomes lead dog. For instance, when Buck kills Spitz and Buck becomes new lead dog. Since, Buck has to try his hardest and destroy any threat that comes to him because he has to keep Francois’s record and the team together. Last, Buck is being beaten on the river by Hal. For example, when Hal has beaten almost every other dog and is beating Buck and Buck has to fight him off till John Thornton saves him. Since, Buck had to keep fighting Hal when he was being beaten so he did not die. In

Buck was treated with no respect and was abused by the man in the red sweater . In chapter 1 it states ‘’deliberately dealt him a frightful blow.’’ This shows the

In the movie, John Thornton shoots a horse, but not in the book. They also don’t treat the dogs very good in either of them, the movie and book. In about the middle of the story, Buck kills Spitz, and in the story they hesitate to put Buck as the lead dog, and in the video they automatically put him in lead. John Thornton is mentioned at the beginning of the video but in the end in the story. Also, when Buck was getting beat, John saves him in the video, but not

Buck in the book “The Call of the Wild”, goes through many obstacles where he faced getting killed. He was just an ordinary house dog, but was kidnapped by his family’s gambling-addicted gardener. He later is beaten with a bat until he obeys and

First, Buck has to prove not only himself but also his strength. For example, Buck has to pull a 1,000 pound sled for 100 yards, in result of this he wins John and his new companions $1,600, which they take with them to look for gold. Since, Buck learns that he can do anything he puts his mind to, and he has the strength to carry on. Next, Buck has to adapt to being in the wild. For instance, Buck comes face to face with a black bear, moose, and wolverines. Since, Buck kills anything that is in way and adapts to all of the deadly situations. Last, Buck has to take care of himself after losing his master. For example, John after dies from getting attacked by the Yeehats Buck goes to where he died and howls once each year on the anniversary of his death. Since, Buck lives on with his life in the wild and is the leader of a wolf

At the beginning of the book, Buck sees very disturbing things that make Buck realize that he is no longer a king. For example, When Buck sees Curly get killed right in front of him it makes Buck that the world is a cruel and unforgiving world, unlike his old home where he was practically a king. For example, he was given plenty of food and water at his old home, where here he was going to get very little. For example, at his old home he was loved and everyone babied him, but here, no one is going to make sure he’s okay all of the time and will have to learn to depend on himself. Since this is Buck’s first real example of how the world truly is kill or be killed and teaches him he needs to be smart and strong in order to survive in this world and Buck has to decide if he is willing to kill for his life.

“He did not check himself, but drove in upon Spitz shoulder to shoulder, so hard that he missed the throat”(London, 40). This quote supports the theme of mastery, because it tells that Buck is trying to kill the leader of the sled dogs, Spitz.

John Thornton, "who is unafraid of the wild," is the last thing Buck has that protects him from the hostile environment where only the strong survive (London 86). After Thornton nurses Buck back to life from his brush with starvation, Buck slowly realizes that he is ready to face the wild, where he would find his true self, not as a pet or a sled dog, and most importantly as an animal without a master. It becomes apparent that,

At the end of the book, Buck fulfills his quest by becoming wild. First, Buck hunts wild animals. For example, Buck kills deer, wolverines, and a moose. Since Buck kills wild game, he learned how to provide for himself. Second, Buck kills yeehat Indians for instance rips throats out, chases them down. Since Buck kills humans, last Buck joins a wild wolf pack to be free and a leader. For example he fights his way into a pack, becomes leader. Since Buck has become the ghost dog. In conclusion Buck fulfills his quest by becoming a wild animal that kills for its meat and protection in a

* Buck –a proud and powerful dog, half St Bernard and half shepherd dog, who begins life on a comfortable Californian estate as a family pet, yet soon changes when he is stolen and sold to work as a sled dog in the frozen North.