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    Jack London was born in San Francisco, California and on the date of January 12 ,1876. When Jack was 30 years old, he was a famous author of Call of the wild, The Sea Wolf and White Fang which were all great books. Jack‘s stories are about great questions of life and also wrote about the great struggle of life and death. Each and every story Jack wrote was wrote quite passionately and he also based them off of personal events while he was sailing in the Canadian sea. The topic that will be…

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    He was a big dog not ready for the Yukon he had to survive through the harshest of winters, he wasn’t fit to survive. In the novel The Call of the Wild by Jack London, One of the main characters is a saint bernard scotch-shepherd called Buck, he is a domesticated, loyal companion that becomes a wild wolf-dog. London uses the Yukon Gold Rush as the setting in the adventure story that brings man and dog closer than pulls than apart in the Yukon while trying to be fit to survive. The theme of the…

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    at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering Borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song of the pack.” (London 108) In the adventure novel The Call of the Wild written by Jack London, the main character, a dog named Buck finds himself in the Yukon, a primitive place due to the greed of mankind during the gold rush. In the book Buck ends up in a primitive land where he has to adapt to the…

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    The American classic that I have chosen to read and write a report about was The Call of The Wild written by Jack London. My passion for dogs motivated me to read this American classic. I have two dogs—a Chihuahua and a Golden Retriever. Therefore, I thought it would be interesting to read a book about dogs. The story shows the perspective of the main character, who is a dog named Buck. In addition, I thought I could learn some things about the behavior of dogs and the way they think. Also…

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    In the short story, "To Build a Fire" by Jack London, a man is hiking with a dog through the Klondike towards a camp containing other travelers in below seventy-five-degree temperatures. Throughout the story, he experiences many obstacles along his path due to nature and his own misdoings. He is unable to identify and interpret the correct measures to take, making his trek much more difficult, and this, along with the glacial temperatures, is what ultimately results in the man's death. Because…

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    Roman Emperor, General, and philosopher Marcus Aurelius in his famous book Meditations. This observation is certainly true for two renowned literary characters. The canine characters Buck from the Jack London book The Call of the Wild and White Fang from the movie White Fang, based on another Jack London book, share many similarities but also experience many important differences throughout their lives. First, Buck and White Fang are both crossbreeds; however, the circumstances of their puppy…

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    Jack London, a substantial American, author was replete with venture and erraticness. He grew as a destitute child, but that didn’t block his future as a great author. He dropped out of high school, started enduring bad habits, and got arrested for vagrancy. London, an author of many short stories, novels, and fiction writing, was a prodigious author when it came to his writings. “In his brief life, London sought adventures in the far corners of the world, from the frozen Yukon to the South…

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    Not only was Buck taken from his leisurely life in california and thrown into the Yukon as a sled dog, but he is also forced to fight for survival everyday of it. The Call of the Wild by Jack London. In the fictional story The Call Of The Wild by Jack London, Buck is a normal dog living a laid back life with his master Judge Miller when a greedy gardner kidnaps him and sells him to a gold miner in the Yukon as a sled dog. Bucks only hope for survival is to have faith in his masters and embrace…

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    In the adventure fiction, The Call of the Wild by Jack London, Buck, the main protagonist of the novel, goes through one of the most miserable times of his life. He is captured by Perrault and François, as both see potential in Buck as a new lead dog. However, they don't plan to just use Buck as a lead dog, they plan to put him on a grueling quest to find the Klondike region of Canada. During many points the expedition, London does something not many people do with their characters, constantly…

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    In The Call of the Wild by Jack London, I think that the most influential thing to Buck was the wild. First, he had to learn to survive. Second, he had to learn to behave around other dogs and use his instincts. Lastly, the wild took over him. Those are the reasons why I believe the wild was the most influential on Buck. The first reason why I believe the wild was the most influential on Buck is because he had to learn to survive in the wild. He had a hard time transitioning from being an…

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