Compare And Contrast The Call Of The Wild

“The measurement of intelligence is the ability to change” (Einstein). In Jack London’s The Call of the Wild, Buck is a crossbreed of St. Bernard and Scotch Collie that lives in a luxurious life at Judge Millers estate in Santa Clara, CA. However, someone kidnaps him and sells him to the sled dog industry of the Northland, where the Klondike gold rush is located. He learns the law of the club and how to adapt to his new life as a sled dog, and becomes primordial due to the new environment that he is in. The similarities in The Call of the Wild novel and movie are important to the characterization of Buck because both show him as naive and entitled. The difference in The Call of the Wild novel and movie is also significant to the characterization

In the book, Buck is tricked easily because he has learned to trust men that he knows. Readers can infer this because in the book, Manuel, Judge Miller’s gardener, tricks Buck by making him think that they are just going on a little walk. Buck goes with him so easily because he knows Manual. They walk to the other man that Manuel ends up selling Buck to probably pay his debt. Manuel puts a rope on his neck which Buck just thinks was a leash at first then when he gives it to the other man, and that is when he realized that he was not going for a walk (London,23-24). In the movie, Buck is also tricked into being kidnapped due to his belief that every man can be trusted. When Buck gets his named called and hears,” good boy” it makes Buck feel happy and less afraid of him. Then he throws a treat into the crate and doesn’t force him, so Buck felt more conformable near the man and goes into the crate even though he was hesitant. But when he sees the man closing the crate, Buck realized that he shouldn’t have trusted the stranger (The Call of the Wild, 5:52-7:03). In both the movie and book, Buck is characterized as a dog that is naive because of how Judge Miller’s trained him to be. In conclusion, the similarity in Buck’s abduction in the novel and the movie are important because it shows how much Buck’s early life has impacted his