Entering the New World with Perseverance Entering a new world of lifestyle can take high levels of perseverance to adjust and adapt to. In The Call of the Wild, Buck was sold and forced into a new world of survival-of-the-fittest in the wilderness, where living conditions are harsh and competitive in which he must grow and adapt into. In contrast to the new lifestyle of Buck, Talia, an Iranian refugee, was sent to America where she was struggling to adapt and find a life where she could prosper. All in all, every living organisms in the world has to be able to persevere through life’s challenges and conflicts in order to become a new and better person. In a blink of an eye, Buck went from his sun-kissed, pampered home of Santa Clara Valley
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As an Iranian refugee who just got sent to America with no plan, Talia was having major difficulties dealing with the customs that were “normal” here. She had come here with complete ignorance of speaking, reading, writing, and interpretation of English. All she could do was use her hand gestures to point and motion the things she was thinking in her head. People never understood what she was trying to interpret, only giving her weird looks. Of course, this had destroyed her self-esteem and emotions, making her think that America was no different from Iran where war was happening. To add to complications, Talia had become very limited on money, in fact, she only had a few hundred dollars in her pocket in which she was living in debt in a shaggy and unsanitary apartment. Adding to these difficulties, Talia suffered the burden of family and friend separation. She was taken away from the people she had long known and lived with. This had wrecked her heart, leaving nothing but the invisible and deep scars on her. For a while, Talia began to felt that nothing good was going to come out of the cover of the clouds. Finally, she found a job at Taco Bell. Even though she was still living off a working class wage, Talia was slowly seeing the sun. She had taken advantage of the job and built onto what she was earning. Along the way, she had started to afford a better home, made new friends, and most of all, she had begun to see the country of the
As an Iranian refugee who just got sent to America with no plan, Talia was having major difficulties dealing with the customs that were “normal” here. She had come here with complete ignorance of speaking, reading, writing, and interpretation of English. All she could do was use her hand gestures to point and motion the things she was thinking in her head. People never understood what she was trying to interpret, only giving her weird looks. Of course, this had destroyed her self-esteem and emotions, making her think that America was no different from Iran where war was happening. To add to complications, Talia had become very limited on money, in fact, she only had a few hundred dollars in her pocket in which she was living in debt in a shaggy and unsanitary apartment. Adding to these difficulties, Talia suffered the burden of family and friend separation. She was taken away from the people she had long known and lived with. This had wrecked her heart, leaving nothing but the invisible and deep scars on her. For a while, Talia began to felt that nothing good was going to come out of the cover of the clouds. Finally, she found a job at Taco Bell. Even though she was still living off a working class wage, Talia was slowly seeing the sun. She had taken advantage of the job and built onto what she was earning. Along the way, she had started to afford a better home, made new friends, and most of all, she had begun to see the country of the