Compare And Contrast Brian's Winter And Call Of The Wild

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In the story Brian's Winter and Call Of The Wild, Brian and Buck are two of the main characters. They both survive in the wilderness.

In Brian's Winter, Brian learns how to survive in the wilderness. And with the help of his hatchet he hunts some bunnies and birds to survive, he gets the bunny and cooks. Then everything turns out to be bad because a bear decides to come and mess with Brian and the bunny. Then Brian goes back to his shelter and his shelter is ruined and his bunny is also destroyed with not even the bone of the bunny left. But Brian did not quit he was brave to survive. In the text it states that he “kicks the bear carelessly’’. This shows the reader that Brian acts before he thinks.

In Call Of The Wild,. Buck is a very smart

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