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with his owners anymore. My dad sacrificed his job because he wanted to do the right thing. Determination is a quality that both my father and Buck share. In the book The Call of the Wild, Buck was determined to earn his way to being the lead dog of the sled dog team. Also, my father was determined that he would find a new job, and once he got a job he was determined to be the best at it. As you can see my father and Buck share many of the same qualities that helped them…

they laughed at him and taunted him. They growled and barked like detestable dogs, mewed, and flapped their arms and crowed (pg 33), I was anticipating what was going to happen next. Using descriptive language, it makes the book more interesting to read. I also like how Buck, the protagonist, changes in the book. He goes from being a spoiled, domesticated working dog, to a proud sled dog who later defeats the lead sled dog to become the best of the team. Buck eventually hears the call…

Judge Miller's place. The first reason Buck is surviving is because he is a pampered dog he thinks he the King. For example he think he doesn't need to learn to survive. Second, Buck must learn the law of Club and Fang to survive. The man in the red sweater teaches Buck the law of Club and Fang by beating Buck with a club. And last but not least Buck learns about survival when he must learn how to be a sled dog or else his master's will kill him. For example he sees a dog's death that wasn’t…

property, all his previous owners didn't actually love him. Second, Buck has to adapt to his unused instincts coming back to him from his ancestors. For instance, Buck hears a call late at night every night for multiple nights in a row to be a wild dog. Since, Buck has to Buck never has lived in the wild., he has never had to use his wild instincts. Last, Buck has to adapt to the way wolves do things in order to survive. For example when John Thorton died Buck decided it was best for him to join…

that all changed when he is sold to dog traders as a sled dog, by none other than a gardener in Judge Miller's estate. He eventually lands to a man, in the red sweater, who teaches him a lesson by hitting him with a club multiple times, carving this terror to Buck’s mind. He is then sold to Francois and Perrault, who takes him to the North for the first time, seeing his first snow and the cruelty around him among the other dogs. The first, which includes a female dog named Curly, who is…

Buck and my dad went through some tough things and they both persevered the same. Buck had to learn how to lead a sled team and he had to get through a lot of hard things. My dad had to learn how to lead a baseball team and he had to fight for his team. Even though Buck is a dog and my dad is a human they both learned how to lead a team and they had to fight for it. Even though we are humans we have struggles and many other life forms have to persevere through tough things in life, just keep…

London, was based on Buck the main character who got dog-napped, and taken to the Yukon. Buck needed to survive the Yukon gold rush, and soon learned that from the death of one of his teammates on the dogsled team. Buck wanted to survive in the Yukon and stay fit for that. To explain the theme survival of the fittest Buck tries to be fit to survive in the Yukon. Buck survives by stealing food, never backing down from a fight,and taking out the lead dogs. Buck had to learn many lessons to be…

witnessed acts of violence, with the death of Curly being the first act of savage violence displayed by not human strangers, but other dogs. “So that was the way. No fair play. Once down, that was the end of you,” is the realization Buck comes to when he watches Curly torn to pieces. London sets what can only be imagined as an intimidating and frightening scene for the dogs when describing the death of Curly, or even more so, Buck’s fight to the death with…

“ And this was the manner of dog Buck it was in the fall of 1897, when the Klondike strike dragged men from all the world into the frozen North. But Buck did not read the newspapers, and he did not know that Manuel, one of the gardener’s helpers, was an undesirable acquaintance” (London 5). In the novel The Call of The Wild by Jack London, is a story about a strong dog named Buck who gets dognapped by a man named Manuel and gets sent on a ship called the Narwhal to the Klondike. He goes on an…

London uses a diverse amount of literary techniques like figurative language and metaphors to portray how Buck overcomes challenges of the snowy northern regions. Near the conclusion of the novella Buck becomes a beast and is the king once again. The novel The Call of the Wild helps us to realise how easy it is for someone to change character and mind set. It also helps the reader to understand that there is a beast inside all of us and we can choose to show it or not and to be…