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    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…

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    Buck from The Call of the Wild undertook the mission to be assert dominance over all. Cap from The Cremation of Sam McGee undertook the mission to fulfill a friend's promise. Will from The Ranger’s Apprentice series undertook the mission to defend his kingdom. However, they all were driven to undertake these missions by their personal needs. According to The Call of the Wild, Buck was driven to be dominant for multiple reasons. One reason he undertook his mission was because of the anger and…

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    idealist parents and society. He desired to be rid of all things materialistic and to be isolated in a place that was untouched by the civilizations of man. Chris believed that relationships were not important enough to keep him from going into the wild. At the end of the Christopher’s life, he discovered the value of relationships, and would have came back into society had he survived. McCandless was on the right path towards understanding the value of relationships, unfortunately, he was never…

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    I agree with Krakauer that Christopher McCandless wasn’t a crazy person, a sociopath, or an outcast because he got along with people easily, but he did seem some-what incompetent, even though he managed to survive for over one hundred days in the wild. McCandless was the type of person that anyone could relate to. The author, Jon Krakauer describes the final years of the boy. Krakauer reveals the untold truth about McCandless. Several decisions, conversations, logical thinking, and thrill of…

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    Into the Wild is a true story of a young man named Chris McCandless, an Emory graduate who is found frozen dead in the Alaskan wilderness on September 1992 when he was 24. McCandless grew up in a wealthy Virginia suburbs of Washington D.C, and is a very gifted athlete and scholar,who from an early age reveals deep intensity, enthusiasm, and a strict moral compass. Into the wild is the true story of Chris McCandless, a young Emory graduate who is found dead in the Alaskan wilderness in September…

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    useless to him, and that he needed to find happiness, and enjoy the process of doing it. His Journey into the wild was an adventure, but more importantly an empty road on which he decided his every move, and no one could stop him on his pursuit of happiness. I feel that Chris' decision was the best for him, and that you shouldn't look to other people to make you happy. His journey into the wild allowed him to figure out who he really was, embrace the true meaning of life. Chris was very set…

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    Do you just love dogs? I mean, who doesn’t? If you do love dogs, then I recommend you read the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London. The Call of the Wild is about a big, fluffy dog named Buck. It takes place in 1897 during the Klondike Gold Rush, when people from all places were heading to the Northland in hopes of striking it rich. Unfortunately for Buck, he was the kind of dog people were looking for to pull their dogsleds. As a result, he was taken from his sun-kissed home in California…

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    Chris McCandless was an arrogant person who risked his life because of his abusive childhood. In the book Into The Wild By Growing up with his family people have always looked at his family as a rich, beautiful, caring family. Most people didn't know what was going on behind the scenes of his life. A boy named Chris Mccandless and how he survived in the wild with nothing. This boy was going thru an abusive childhood and realized that after college he wanted nothing to do with his parents, so…

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    The Call of the Wild revolves around the story of Buck, a St. Bernard, Scotch shepherd mix, who fights to survive in the unforgiving life of a sled dog. Kidnapped and beaten into submission, Buck learns quickly that these men are his masters and not his owners. The punishments are brutal but they don’t just some from those that own him now but even his sled dog teammates who teach him, in a less than sympathetic manner, how to work as a sled dog. Buck is quick to learn all the ways of a sled dog…

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    Since the book “Into the Wild” was published there has been much debate if the books main character Chris McCandles was crazy or not. Although Chris decision to get up and leave his normal life is a bit abnormal it doesn’t mean it made him completely mad. Chris was committed to what his heart desired and he was willing to do anything to get what he wanted. Chris McCandless was a bright young man who had a bright future ahead of him once he was finished with school. Almost everyone saw Chris…

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