Compare And Contrast Buck And My Father

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Buck and My Father Being put into a new environment can cause you to persevere through hard times, and make new adaptations to your life. In The Call of the Wild Buck a southern dog is lacerated from his owners hands and sent north to the Yukon being required to persevere through advanced adaptations and struggles. On the contrary my Father had to adapt by changing his struggles from his old life and importing them into his newly found college life. Both my Father and Buck were forced to thrive in an unfamiliar environment, where they were unaware of the hardships that would take place. Perseverance is a part of life, Like Buck and my father you can choose to adapt and prosper or you can choose to give up and break down. In the catastrophic

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