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    White Fang was a great book but there were some differences between the book and movie. Many people like the book better than the movie. The differences of Jack London’s White Fang the book and the movie are white fang’s mothers dies‚the existence of a bear‚ and the burial of a dead guy. The book was very different from the movie in lots of ways. White Fang’s mother dies in the first few minutes of the movie. While huntings she gets shot while running from a hunter. Little does the hunter know

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    Those traveling to the gold fields in 1897 journeyed by boat from San Francisco to Dyea or Skagway in Alaska. Skagway was just the beginning; they had a 500-mile journey ahead of them through the hazardous White Pass to Dawson City (via Lake Bennett) in Canada! The miners carried a year’s supply of food mining equipment with them. Character Sketch of Hester Prynne Those traveling to the gold fields in 1897 journeyed by boat from San Francisco to Dyea or Skagway in Alaska. Skagway

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    In White Fang‚ the novel starts out with two men‚ Bill and Henry‚ crossing Alaska to head south with sled dogs. They where on this journey because they find themselves needing to burry the body of Lord Albert. During this journey‚ they crossed paths with a famished pack of wolves whose only objective was to eat. Day-by-day‚ one of Bill and Henry’s sled dogs was killed by being attracted by the she-wolf. The she-wolf would catch eyes with one of the sled dogs and as the dog would run out of camp to

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    Call of the Wild

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    The last true frontier In the 1890s gold was found in tributaries along the Klondike River‚ once found tens of thousands of people flocked to Alaska to try a strike it rich. The primary mode of transportation in Alaska were sled dogs‚ these dogs were able to run up to 40 miles a day on just a few hours of sleep. The novel “Call of the Wild” is the harrowing tale of a dog plucked from his home and thrust into the deadly Alaskan Yukon‚ forced to either become a sled dog and carve out his own niche

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    the group of dogs to an assembly of gold hunters‚ Charles‚ Hal‚ and Mercedes. The new masters treat the dogs perfunctorily‚ and end up falling through a section of ice‚ pulling in the dogs and the humans into a frozen lake. The dogs are then pulled into John Thornton’s camp‚ a caring master whom Buck treats with devotion. However‚ a growing attraction for the wild pulls him away from society. He makes friends with wolves‚ bears‚ and moose while the men look for gold. In a battle with the Yeehats‚ an

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    In the book The call of the wild‚ by Jack London‚ a dog learns the cruelty and the freedom of the wild as he becomes a tough sled dog. This nonfiction book focused on Buck‚ a dog who was taken from his home in Southern California and sent to become a sled dog in the Klondike. Buck becomes a strong sled dog and is taken in by many dog sled owners‚ where he experiences the cruelty of man and the wild. When John Thornton‚ one of his owners‚ is killed by the Yeehat Indians he avenges him by killing several

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    The Laws of Civilization and of Wilderness While the two lives that Buck leads stand in stark contrast to each other‚ this contrast does not go unchallenged throughout the novel. His life with Judge Miller is leisurely‚ calm‚ and unchallenging‚ while his transition to the wilderness shows him a life that is savage‚ frenetic‚ and demanding. While it would be tempting to assume that these two lives are polar opposites‚ events later in the novel show some ways in which both the wild and civilization

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    in order to overcome them they will need to persevere. In Call Of The Wild Buck is taken from his warm paradise and thrown into a cold hard brutal life and is forced to persevere to survive. Buck is sold and gets moved from Santa Clara Valley in California to Yukon‚ Canada. While moving he has to adjust to a different climate. He meets more people and joins a sled dog team. Buck in order to survive he had to become meaner and more aggressive. In the book he gets attacked many times wild huskies‚ spitz

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    Call of the Wild BUCK‚ A POWERFUL DOG‚ half St. Bernard and half sheepdog‚ lives on Judge Miller’s estate in California’s Santa Clara Valley. He leads a comfortable life there‚ but it comes to an end when men discover gold in the Klondike region of Canada and a great demand arises for strong dogs to pull sleds. Buck is kidnapped by a gardener on the Miller estate and sold to dog traders‚ who teach Buck to obey by beating him with a club and‚ subsequently‚ ship him north to the Klondike. Arriving

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    movie Call of the Wild are very different in many ways. It could be the way a scene plays out‚ a character’s role‚ or even when a event takes place. First‚ in the movie Call of the Wild John Thornton played a role throughout the whole movie being a gold miner searching for Buck. In the book Call of the Wild John Thornton isn’t added to the story until Hal‚ Charles‚ Mercades and were about to cross over the lake‚ and John rescues Beck. Second‚ in the movie Curly is only mentioned by a man in the bar

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