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    Call Of Wild

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    to other people. The book was written by Jack London. This book type is historical fiction. This book is placed in Yukon, Canada, in the 1890s Klondike Gold, when strong sled dogs were in very high demand. This book is written in third person point of view. The protagonist is Buck, a half saint bernard half scotch shephard dog, and the antagonists is the man in the red sweater, and including the other men Buck was passed along to. The changing weather and Spitz are also antagonists. The man in…

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    The Call Of The Wild

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    book is a dog named Buck. The book is about the 1890’s Klondike Gold Rush, when sled dogs were in high demand. The author of the book is Jack London, the publisher is Macmillan Publishers. The book is important because it shows how life was in the old day. How dogs had to fight for their lives. Also how people would use dogs as transportation. The novel The Call of the Wild takes place in the Yukon territory, which is between Alaska and Canada. The Klondike gold diggers kidnapped dogs and…

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    Call of the Wild” by Jack London, a dog named Buck a ruler of a demesne in the Santa Clara Valley, California with his beloved owner Judge Miller. One walk with a trusted man is all it took for a dognapping to happen to this king. Buck a scared dog without idea of what's in his future. The struggle for mastery is real. The Yukon, a frosted snow globe with one thing that Buck has never experienced, the cold, wet, burning feeling beneath his feet. Buck, a dog with a great amount of skill…

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    mostly about John Thornton and the book is mostly about Buck. The similarities in the book and the movie is when Buck gets taken to be a sled-dog.Some of the dogs die from starvation in both features after the dogs get new owners, and the new owners shot the dogs if they are ill. In both features Spitz gets killed by Buck and he becomes lead dog. The dogs and owners both stop…

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    this is an example of the theme. Last, Better watch your back or you will die. For example Spitzs is always trying to kill Buck. In the middle of the book the theme is life is kill or be killed. First, you have to get rid of the bad members of the dog sled team. For example, the Scottish half-breed had to put down Dave because he was hurt. Since Dave got killed for pulling his hardness and getting hurt this shows the theme. Second, everyone's glad that it wasn't them to die. For instance when…

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    important character is Weedon Scott, the first master who shows kindness toward White Fang. The story begins before White Fang is born, with two men named Henry and Bill and their team of sled dogs travelling to the Yukon Territory in Canada. A large pack of wolves follow them for days and eat Bill and the sled dogs. The pack also attempts to kill Henry, but they flee when they hear a group of people coming. The story then turns to the pack, who finally kill a moose and end the famine. Once…

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    the Yukon, he was not expecting a big difference between Santa Clara (his hometown) and the Yukon, but he was wrong. He had to adapt to the small amounts of food he got, how fast he has to eat his food, the cold weather, and the “savage” humans and dogs. In “The Law of the Club and Fang”, Buck is starting to learn the basics of living in the Yukon. He is learning to eat faster, gain more strength, get…

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    Gary Paulsen Quotes

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    the world and cover 1,150 miles of land with their dogs. In this book, Gary starts training with practically no experience and no racing dogs to run the longest race in existence but, ends up not only running the race once but twice and wins the second time. This shows the determination of Paulsen along with his refusal to give up. Some of the challenges he will face are mental blocks and trying not give up along with other challenges of finding dogs to run and training. Winterdance addresses…

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    Buck is a dog, he is a Saint Bernard, Scottish Shepherd mix living in Santa Clara Valley, California. He lives in the home of Judge Miller. Unfortunately for Buck, an addictive gambler dognapped him and is sold to Northerners. In the North, there is a gold rush going on and Buck becomes a sled-dog. Buck can't tolerate being tied up, so he fights against his new master. But all of his efforts to escape had no point. Buck learns this concept of "master," but in an unwilling way. After days of…

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    Jack London the writer of an amazing book called Call of the Wild. The story is about this family, and their dog got kidnapped but their gardener and this dog was named Buck. He struggles to survive as a sled dog. He goes through two owners, and he finds the one. His name was John Thornton. Unfortunately, while Buck was hunting down a moose the Indian group named the Yeehats killed John and died. And then Buck joins with a pack of wolves, and every year Buck goes back to where his beloved John…

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