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    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 travel, Buck realizes that he is in the…

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    In the book Call of the wild by Jack London is about dogs who are being taken away from their homes and they are getting sold to other people all around the world . There is one dog his name is buck he had lived with the same people ever since he was a puppy but then one day a man kept wondering around the property and he took buck. When he took buck he placed him in a room with other dogs and they basically fought each other until one was dripping blood or almost dead. When they finished…

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    1,150 miles of nothing but ice cold snow, and determination. This is the reality of the Iditarod, a race the main character of my book Gary Paulsen competes in. This race takes place in Alaska where elite runners face the hardest terrain in 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.…

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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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    “The last tie was broken. Man and the claims of man no longer bound him” (London 106 ). In the story “The 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…

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    always be where you were born and raised. In the story, the dog named Buck lived in the south with a nice family, and it was a nice life. But, then a servant smuggled him out, sold him to a few people, who brought it to their boss, who sold him to dog sled people. Then, he had to learn to adjust to the Alaskan weather and…

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    Buck The Wild

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    book Bucks masters test him which eventually releases bucks inner primordial beast. The theme of Survival of The Fittest is included in the book because the dogs retrogress back to a more primitive state, and the most worthy dog along with the dog sled team, struggle to stay alive. Buck has no experience living in the wintery harsh weather. Being in a simple environment at Judge Miller’s was making him a pet. Jack London did a great job explaining the weather and how Buck came to his senses.…

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    COMPARISON AND CONTRAST: Buck and White Fang “As for life, it is a battle and a journeying in a strange land,” noted 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…

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    THE POWER OF INSTINCT The Call of the Wild a dog story, Buck a splendid California ranch dog. He was stolen and sold into Alaska, to become a sled-dog in the gold rush. “In the primitive” he quickly learns “the law of club and fang” jerked from the heart of civilization and flung into the heart of things primordial. His first experience on the Alaskan coast brings home the nature of the eternal struggle. A friendly dog was knocked down in a fight and instantly “she was buried screaming with…

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    In The Call of the Wild, by Jack London it is about a dog buck and his adaptation in nature after he is taken from his home and put in the wild to be put to work on a sled dog team. He learns lessons on to live and survive in the wild and live a new life. When working a a team manny qualities and traits such as being able to work with others and how you fit in in our role. In order to get a large goal done you need to work as a team. In the novel the Call of the Wild by Jack London, the idea…

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