What Is The Difference Between The Call Of The Wild Book And Movie

The movie, Call of The Wild, didn’t stay faithful to the book because it lacked important qualities. This was most likely because they wanted it portrayed as a kid's movie, but it still should have kept true to the book. As a result, the book greatly outshines the movie because it provides vivid descriptions of violence, death, gore, and the bullying side of Bucks' personality.
In the book, Buck, the protagonist, ravaged, killed, and hurt his enemies. While in the movie, Buck was portrayed as fun-loving. The gore described in the book was immense. “Buck loosed his teeth from the flesh of the arm, and drove for the throat.” (Londen Pg 64) The book provides vivid descriptions that send your skin crawling, making you want to read more.
In the movie, there are only two deaths, John and Hal. However, in the book, death is more prominent between both people and dogs. For example, Billee, John, Hal, Charles, Mercedes, Sol-leks, Spitz, and Curly

In the movie, Buck doesn’t kill anybody. He actually doesn’t even kill a bunny rabbit they were going to use for food. As a result, the movie only conveys that Buck switches to becoming a wolf out of the loss of John Thorton. The scene in the movie, while very sad, shows that Buck has no ruthlessness or sense of bloodlust like a wolf would have.
The Call of The Wild is a gradual path to achieve dormant primal instincts such as hunting or killing. However, in the movie, Buck never takes this path, but instead, he becomes one with the dormant instincts. While in the book Buck takes a path that leads him into the primal instincts. “He had killed man, the noblest game of all, and he had killed in the face of the law of club and fang.” (Londen Pg 83.) This quote shows how Buck has completed his journey to becoming a wolf, or accepting the Call of The Wild. It shows that he has bested the law of Club and