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Perseverance In Mark Twain's The Call Of The Wild
Perseverance though a scary time is hard to do. In the book The Call of the Wild, Buck is taken from his home and forced to live in the tough, harsh, and unforgiving Canada. Through all of the challenges ahead on the adventure, he powers through. In contrast to this, Christine had to have brain surgery. Even though she knew about everything that was going to happen during the surgery, she was still afraid of the the procedure and the outcome. In reality, they had to persevere through different things, but yet they are the same. With courage, strength, and scaredness, they powered through. At the beginning, they were both scared. The difference is the struggles they encountered during it. But in the end, the both had a happy life.

In the book The Call of the Wild, Buck is kidnapped from his lovely home and taken to the cold Canada. Buck was frightened and had to persevere through this hard and scary time, not knowing where he is going to end up. He had to persevere through the law of the club, being sold to people who worked for the government, and being sold to people who didn’t know what they were doing. While powering through the law of the club, he had to go
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With courage,strength,and terrified, they both persevered through their struggles. They both were cut up, had to learn about their problems, and how it/ who saved their life. Buck got beaten up a lot by other dogs, my mom got a hugh cut in her head, now a scar. They had to learn much about what was happening to them. Buck had to adapt to other dogs and people, Buck had to adapt to wilderness, and my mom had to educate herself about the procedure. Both Buck and my mom were saved. John saved bucks life, While getting beaten up, and this surgery saved my mom’s life. At the same time, Buck and my mom are very different. Buck had to live in the wilderness, my mom had brain surgery, and they were treated

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