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    Making changes is hard and requires a lot of perseverance. In The Call of the Wild‚ Buck is taken from his calm‚ restful‚ and quiet life and is forced to make many strenuous changes. In contrast to Buck‚ my father had to make many alters to his life by moving and changing schools‚ but he had a lot of support along the way. Like my father Buck was put into a rough time‚ they both had to face many challenges and struggles in order to persevere. Overall‚ everyone‚ even animals‚ have to persevere through

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    pet to a primordial‚ wild beast. To begin with‚ before living in northern Canada and Alaska‚ Buck lived a pampered‚ luxurious life on Judge Miller’s estate in Santa Clara Valley‚ California. Although there were numerous breeds of dogs living on the estate‚ Buck had an aspect to himself that set him aside from the other dogs and animals. "For he was king – king over all creeping‚ crawling flying things of Judge Miller’s place‚ humans included." (Call of the Wild‚ page 14). Buck would

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    Doing things on your own and doing something to make others happy takes a lot of perseverance. In The Call of the Wild Buck starts off just a normal dog‚ but‚ he perseveres into a tough‚ independent dog who can stick up for himself. That can relate to my mom’s situation. My mom had to go back to her sophomore year in college when her dad was sick in the hospital with cancer. She had to learn to be okay and deal with it on her own. She needed to be strong for her family. Buck and my mom started off

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    Jack London’s book‚ The Call of the Wild is about a domestic house dog who is thrown into the unknown and harsh life of a Klondike sled dog. This book was banned and removed from the high school curriculum for reasons that suggest animal cruelty‚ violent scenes‚ and dark tone and themes that are not suitable for younger children. Despite these reason‚ The Call of the Wild should remain in the curriculum because it also contains some reoccurring themes of perseverance and bravery that many could learn

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    Good examples of this would be Call of the Wild by Jack London‚ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain‚ and An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Stephen Crane (Examples of Realism in Literature…). Each of these stories is a fictionalized contemporary work from the time period it was written. Call of the Wild was the tragic story of a man and a dog during the discovery of gold in the Yukon Territory in Canada; The

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    In‚ The Call of the Wild‚ there are many themes that the author‚ Jack London‚ mentioned. One of these themes was loyalty. Jack London focuses on all aspects of loyalty‚ ranging from the positive effects‚ to even the negative ones too. He uses the main character‚ Buck‚ as an example of these effects. In the story‚ Buck gains true loyalty to John Thornton‚ one of his owners. Loyalty also keeps Buck’s inner wolf at bay. Lastly‚ because Buck’s loyalty to is so strong‚ it is dangerous. Of course‚

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    Book Report TITLE: Call of The Wild AUTHOR & BACKGROUND: Jack Landon was the most successful writer in America in the early 20th Century. His best short stories are the Call of the Wild and White Fang. Mainly Landon wrote about animals‚ men and his stories were based off of life experiences. London lived his childhood in poverty in the Oakland slums. At the age of 17‚ he ventured to sea on a sealing ship. He changed his life when he was in a thirty-day imprisonment that was so degrading it

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    While the situations in Call Of The Wild and Maze Runner are fictional they differ in that Call of The Wild takes the reader deeper into the determined aspect of animal life meanwhile Maze runner provides an insight into the Brave nature and condition of human existence. This essay will go more into depth of how smart they both are. Body#1 The characteristic of Bravery is readily apparent in both Thomas and Buck. Bucks bravery towards John Thornton when he got shot by an arrow and “Buck Sprang at

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    Call of The Wild is a novel by Jack London about a sled dog. People have made many different versions of movies based on the book. One of the most famous versions is one where the whole movie is based on John Thornton during the entirety of the movie. The original book and this movie are quite similar in ways but they are also very different in other ways. But the most important detail is shared between the two stories and that is the main idea. In the book the main protagonist is Buck‚ but that

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    book “Call of the Wild” by Jack London. In this novel‚ narrated by a St. Bernard and a Scotch Shepard mix by the name of Buck‚ Buck has just been “recruited” to work as a sled dog pulling the sled. There are two specific dogs by the names of Dave and Sol-leks. They work alongside Buck‚ however they are most experienced. Whenever someone in the group falters‚ they punish them. “Once…when he [Buck] got tangled in the traces and delayed the start‚ not Dave and Sol-leks flew at him” (The Call of the

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