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Hatchet & Cry in the Wild

Hatchet did a better with foreshadowing than Cry in the Wild.The movie was horrible. I saw his BUTT. In the survival pack there was some stuff that was missing in the it. In the book,the pilot didn’t tell him were the survival pack was. In the movie his mom saw that he saw her having an affair that in the book they was in the station wagon getting their freak on too much.The lake in the movie was not L- shaped it was like an oval and he does not try to hide in the boulder.The boy in the movie is so weird like he was talking to himself.Brian did not stab a bear then try to feed his cub after the fact and blood do not squirt out it drips.His mom did not have an affair in the bushes or trees in the book she had an affair

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