![]() ![]() ![]() “He looked out his peephole, and could see Claire helping Meika, who was crying, her face red and raw. The Wild Things defies this standard precept of B->M->B, instead turning a poignant, touching children’s book into a weighty 287-pager.īut here is the genius: Eggers manages to subvert the genre while simultaneously cheapening the meaning of the original story! It’s beautiful.Įggers’s protagonist, Max, reveals bits of wisdom throughout the story. Upon hitting his sister’s head in the face with a snowball: ![]() In the B->M->B canon, each adaptation manages to brilliantly gut the nuances of character and plot, reducing the story to a bare bones, empty shell of its original self. In The Wild Things, Dave Eggers clearly shows his understanding of the Book->Movie->Book genre and expertly turns it on its head. ![]()
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