Compare And Contrast Hatchet And A Cry In The Wild

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The book Hatchet and “a cry in the wild” are almost entirely different stories, and out of the two I think hatchet did a better job telling the story. Also I thought it did it better because it is the original. Hatchet was a best selling novel about Brian surviving in Canada written by Gary Paulsen. A cry in the wild was a movie version that was about Brian surviving in Canada and just about as different as you can get. Hatchet did a better job in imagery because is a book, and a cry in the wild was a movie. In hatchet he described the lake, the birds, and the hatchet. A cry in the wind couldn’t because it was an image it can’t describe an image.Those were reasons hatchet did a better job telling the story. It used imagery more and foreshadowed
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    Hatchet and A Cry in the Wild were both good at telling the story. However, I think the book Hatchet did a better job with the detail of the imagery. Naturally, a movie such as A Cry in the Wild would have better opportunity to show imagery and it does, but Hatchet gave more description. An example is when Brian made his first bow. In Hatchet it said when the first bow snapped two splinters went right above his eye brows. In A Cry in the Wild the bow just snapped then it went to the next scene. When

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