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The book/novel Call of the wild has a few pieces of text that I favor such as when Buck would lay by the campfire and dream about his past ancestors and of the human ancestors. The book also the text states,”.....his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.” This i also like because it ends the book with a forever as one type of feeling.The main few parts that I dislike is in the beginning when he was learning the law of club and fang.
Yet, of that, I unlike the the beginning of the novel when I just start reading the book and there are many different characters being introduced to the story. The setting of the story is very different throughout the book. The setting of the first part is
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The book also shows foreshadowing at the beginning of the book because the text states,”.....and he did not know that Manuel one of the gardener’s helpers was an undesirable quaintance.” The text also states that, “No one had seen them go off through the orchard on what Buck imagined was merely a stroll.”
The setting, conflict, and foreshadowing impact the book because without them the book would be as dull as a pencil after a long day.The strongest literature term used in this book would be the setting because every setting is different but yet the author describes them great. The theme/main idea of this book is to be prepared for the worst or the hardest. The main idea is about a dog that gets stolen from a home and sent to the klondike to be made to pull sleds then at the end the dog known as buck turns wilder that a wolf.
The character Charlie in the Call of the Wild movie is not in the book because the movie does not have the two men that go with John Thornton (in the book) to the lost mine. Charlie just replaces them. Most books compared to the movies have some of the same actions but they are very different. Yet both book and movie get the point out which is one thing that make them

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