Mentality In The Call Of The Wild

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In The Call of the Wild, by Jack London it is about a dog buck and his adaptation in nature after he is taken from his home and put in the wild to be put to work on a sled dog team. He learns lessons on to live and survive in the wild and live a new life. When working a a team manny qualities and traits such as being able to work with others and how you fit in in our role. In order to get a large goal done you need to work as a team. In the novel the Call of the Wild by Jack London, the idea that one person impacts an individual and their emotions, mentality and performance. A individual can affect the emotions a person feels towards them. A individual can affect the mentality by changing views from the person. A individual can affect the rate of performance from a person.
The way a person feels towards someone can be positive or negative. The emotions from one person can be affected by the individual they would feel love, hate, or other feelings. In the quote it expresses how buck has deep emotions for john thornton. These emotions affect his loyalty and love for him and it was shown how he respected him . “Thornton knelt down by Buck's side. He took his head in his two hands and rested cheek on cheek. He did not playfully
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decreases. .In the quote I describes how when buck rose to power things had changed for the dogs and he had influenced them to where there performance changed. “Pike, who pulled at Buck's heels, and who never put an ounce more of his weight against the breastband than he was compelled to do, was swiftly and repeatedly shaken for loafing; and ere the first day was done he was pulling more than ever before in his life.” ( ). This quote related the the topic because it shows when Buck had gained power the dogs were pulling more and working better. This showed also how the dogs respected buck and were willing to work hard for

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