A Comparison Of Dilemmas In 'Call Of The Wild'?

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As we get older, we are confronted with challenges of all sizes, big or small, and we must learn how to persevere and endure through them. In Call of the Wild, Buck came across many obstacles in his life, most made him experience physical pain. He was forced to adapt to his new savage and harsh conditions, unless he wanted to die. My mom, in contrast, wasn’t forced into her situation, she was curious and put herself in her dilemma. In spite of all the good around her, she suffered through emotional pain and betrayal. Both of Buck and my mom’s situations were complicated and difficult, and it put them both in pain, leaving them vulnerable at times. However, they both persevered so they could achieve happiness in the end, and it ended up being …show more content…
Both my mom and Buck were put through the ringer at the beginning of their challenges. My mom was told the story of how she was adopted and who her real birth parents were. while Buck was taken from humane civilization, and was beaten down with ropes and whips by harsh people, with no compassion. At the beginning of each of these challenges, they both felt like the world was against them, hearing and feeling atrocious body feelings inside and out. They also both had tough times persevering through their hard times. My mom was told about her adopted life as she was leaving high school and getting ready for college, so all of this new information of her past didn’t exactly lighten the load of stress she was carrying on her shoulders. Also, Buck had a lot of trouble throughout his journey, like an example would be when Buck was given to owners who didn’t know how to properly take care of him, by overfeeding and underfeeding and putting a lot of weight on the sled. all of this lousy caretaking from the owners literally put a load on him and he had trouble getting through and persevering through his journey to Dawson. My mom and Buck both had a lot going on, for my mom it was mentally hard to endure through, and for Buck physically painful and stressful, but they were both in tough situations with a great deal of stress and weight, and they both persevered to get through them. Buck and my mom, even though in tough, rigorous situations, they both persevered through they to live in the jubilant outcome it their hardship resulted in. My mom persevered hard through tough times and got a happy reunions with her birth mom, and Buck found his calling and his true family, the wolves. My mom and Buck were both

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