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    The Call of the Wild was written in 1903 by Jack London. The United States was rapidly developing while this novel was being written. The current state of the world greatly affected this novel and this novel went on to make an impact in many ways. The novel focuses on an incredibly strong and intelligent dog named Buck and his various transformations as the novel progresses. Buck starts out as a pampered dog living an easy life and he ends as a ferocious beast living in the wild. Buck is…

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    In The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, a dog’s journey and its experiences illustrate the art of survival. Of the multifarious morals found in this book, the most prominent is that one must adapt to their surroundings in order to survive. This was portrayed by Buck, the dog protagonist, when he had to rely on his instincts that “came to him without effort or discovery” (London, 26), when he transfered owners multiple times, and when he was “suddenly jerked from the heart of civilization and…

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    In the story “The call of the wild ” , by Jack London takes place in santa clara valley. Is about how men wanted were heavy dogs with strong muscles. They had to have furry coats to protect them from the frost. Buck lived in a big house it was really nice. He had been living there for 4 years. Buck wasn’t any ordinary house dog he was different from the rest of them. One day buck was kidnapped. For two whole days poor buck didn’t eat or dranked. He wasn’t the same anymore they did…

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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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    “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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    succeeded in filing the heavy brass collar from off his neck.” This quote and essay proves how adaptation is the key to survival. In the classic novel Call Of The Wild, A dog named Buck had to learn that adaptation is the key to survival by getting dog-napped, beaten, and upholding his rank in the dog sled pack. For Buck, it was hard to survive in the wild with all its threats. In the beginning of this book, Buck “lived the life of a sated aristocrat.” The first thing Buck had to adapt to…

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    Call of the Wild I have been in three different adaptations that i had to get used to.The school was really different from elementary, and my neighborhood also I didn't know anyone and high school is really tuff. Everything was so different but I had to get used to it one day. I have survived all of that, yet i’m still working on some things. “Survival of the Fittest” means that the best adapted to their environment. When I was about eleven years old I had to go to…

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    IfThe Call of the Wild is a story about ultimately achieving mastery over a foreign, primal world, that mastery is achieved only through separation from the group and independent survival. Throughout much of the story, Buck is serving a master or a pack; even as a…

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    There are many similarities and differences about the book ‘’Call of the Wild’’. For example in the book it was 3rd person and in the movie it was 1st person. There are many more. Here is one more example. In the book no one shoots a horse, like they do in the movie. Some more differences are that in the book the Indian doesn’t want to build a cabin, like he does in the movie. In the movie, when Spitz dies, they automatically put Buck in Spitz’s place, but in the book the owners hesitate.…

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    challenges. In Call Of The Wild Buck was snatched out his lazy lifestyle and forced to face bitter cold. Hard Work, and Vicious dogs. Unlike many adults, My father lived around the globe, served in the army, and had a heart attack, which sometime called for perseverance and determination. Even though physically my father and Buck differ, they still had to go through tough challenges and issues. Everyone is different, But all living creatures must persevere to get over the speedbumps in life. In…

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