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Hatchet did a better job of explaining the story than the movie A cry in the wild. This is because it gave more dispersion about what’s happening. For example, the book said Brain was trying to catch fish and he was getting very mad, but a cry in the wild didn’t really give details about it. Dispersion the book gave better the movie are,when Brain was getting beat on by the moose and it wanted more in Hatchet. In a cry in the wild it was a different animal and it did not come back. In hatchet,it told how the pilot head and body was eaten by fish in the lake. In the movie, you could not tell about the pilot’s head. Hatchet and a cry in the wild both did a very good job in my opinion .

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