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To the northwest of the Wastelands lies a shattered neighborhood originally a warehouse district. No longer visible are the street grids parallel and perpendicular to one another. The bars, nightclubs, restaurants, and residential lofts, have become infested with creatures performing camouflage defenses. Suburban neighborhoods had become dwelling grounds for the lower, less dominates species. A Caucasian male ventures through the ruins of a neighborhood mounted on a biped,…

The Call of the Wild Literary Analysis “He may be seen running 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…

The characters adapt to their surroundings in different ways. Brian is stranded in the cold in the middle of the no-where all by himself besides all the animals around him.Some animals including the bear can be extremely dangerous if not handled the right way.¨Brian pulled back a foot. “Hey--get out of there!” he yelled and kicked the bear in the rear.¨___¨Everything in nature means something and he had missed the warnings that the summer was ending, had in many ways already ended,and what was…

Thomas King’s Green Grass, Running Water portrays various lives of characters intertwined by the Native American folkloric gods. Lionel Red Dog, a man turning 40 years old attempts to reconstruct his life on a better path while struggling with his identity. As a born Canadian with an Asian ethnicity, my personal reading of Lionel and Charlie’s father Portland Looking Bear highlights their struggle with identity. Although never explicitly stated, the conflicting needs of being an individual and…

Paragraph 1, Introduction Ellie's Story is about a search and rescue dog named Ellie. Ellie's Story is by W. Bruce Cameron, who also wrote the novel A Dog's Purpose, Bailey's story, Molly's story, Max's Story, and many other books all based off of A Dog's Purpose. A Dog's Purpose even had a movie made about it. EllIe's story didn't have many main characters. Some of the characters consist of Jakob, Ellie's first partner, Maya, Ellie's second partner, Ellie herself, Albert, Maya’s husband, Wally…

Bonnie Nadzam’s newly released novel, Lions (Grove/Black Cat, $16), is a ghost story–a ghost story about the spirit of a dying Colorado town called Lions, so named “to stand in for disappointment with the wild invention and unreasonable hope by which it had been first imagined, then sought and spuriously claimed.” It is also a story about the ghosts that haunt the town’s few remaining inhabitants: the ghosts of their ancestors, the ghosts of their hopes and ambitions, the ghosts of an uncertain…

Would you be able to survive in the wild? The Call of the Wild is an adventure fiction story about a dog named Buck who gets taken to the Yukon at the time of the gold rush. Buck changes from a domestic pet to being a wild animal. He has many different owners over the course of the story but eventually he meets the one he loves the most, John Thornton. The theme throughout the story is survival of the fittest. Buck learned how to survive by watching other dogs. Buck first got to the Yukon he…

There is a book and movie called Where The Red Fern Grows. The book was made in 1961, the movie was made in 1964. In the book a boy saves up money to get his dogs, he trains them, and goes to a contest. He wins the contest and brings home two cups one silver the other gold. He and his dogs get into a fight with a mountain lion the mountain lion died and so did the dogs. In the book it started off with Billy coming home from work and he takes in a dog. In both the movie and the book billy…

The story of Old Yeller has been a timely classic for decades, touching the hearts of every reader who picks up the book. It is a classic tale of the relationship between a boy and his dog, sharing the challenges and difficulties they had to endure and the tragic death of the dog when it gets infected by a disease spreading across the town called hydrophobia. Although Old Yeller was a meat stealing thief that showed up uninvited to the family’s farm, they all learned to the love the big yellow…

Buck is the main character in The Call of the Wild by Jack London. Buck lived on the land of Judge Miller in Santa Clara Valley, California. He has lived all four years of his life here. He is the son of Elmo, a large St. Bernard and Shep, a Scotch shepherd dog. Buck is strong, loyal, kind, and independent. Buck escorts the Judge's daughters on long walks, goes swimming or hunting with the Judge's sons, or plays with the Judge's grandsons. Because of this he is not considered just an ordinary…