Examples Of Perseverance In The Call Of The Wild

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Keeping Up

It’s tough growing up and it takes much perseverance to keep up with everybody. In Call of the Wild when Dave died, it took a toll on Buck, it took lots of perseverance to make sure he keeps up with the others. In contrast, Megan knew a boy who didn’t graduate and that made her realize that she probably will not graduate if she kept her grades like that, and it took lots of perseverance to keep up with everybody else. They both struggled to keep up and not fail, and they both felt like giving up. Perseverance happens in everybody's life, it doesn’t matter who or what you are. This is what happened with Buck a dog and my sister.

In Call of the Wild Dave died, and that made Buck realize that’s what happens when you don’t keep up, and that he needs to keep up if he wants to live, it took a bunch of
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Like when the man in the red sweater beat Buck to make him cooperate, it’s kind of like when Megan’s teachers would keep asking her about her homework, and pushing her to do better and to study for tests. Also, when Buck witnessed a dog fight and he was scared and worried that he would be killed like that if he didn’t keep up with the others, is a lot like when Megan witnessed everyone else get good grades and she didn’t because she slacked off, until a few months before she graduated, she was scared that she wouldn’t graduate and have to retake the twelfth grade. Not to mention when Buck was scared that he wouldn’t keep up and that he wouldn’t last till the end of the year, and that he would be killed, that’s similar to what happened to Megan, she was scared that she wouldn’t be able to make it and that she wouldn’t graduate, she was scared and worried, that she wouldn’t graduate and go to a bad college, she was constantly worried and on edge. Buck and Megan sure are different, but they are also similar in ways that connect us with the

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