The Call Of the Wild

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    Buck from the Call of The Wild is removed from a peaceful environment and is forced to grow quickly, to persevere through challenging time and trials. For example, Buck learns the law of the club from experience. In the beginning, of the Call of The Wild Buck was caged and pestered by the people who had caged him and Buck grew furious. Starting to growl and snarl Buck soon knew not to after taking a beating of the club. No longer in a peaceful environment, Buck also sees Curly get killed by…

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    The book “Call of the Wild”, in my opinion, was an outstanding book so far. This book is about a dog named Buck who gets kidnapped from the Sun kissed Santa Clara Valley way back in fall of 1897, consequently taken to the Klondike Gold Rush. Here Buck has been sold around to be a sled dog. Buck is sold to two men named Perrault and Francois. These two men are heading towards Dawson ( a city rich in yellow metal) with a sled team of dogs. Buck was a sled dog. As you know it takes more than one…

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    Jake opened the window shutters and circled the inside of the barn. Dammit, did he have to do everything? He gave orders to store tools against the wall. His boots scrunched against loose straw as he marched past the wagon and the buggy. Red nickered. The horse moved its rump against the rail and swished its tail. Jake scooped a handful of grain from a bin and dropped it into Red’s feed trough. The horse, he could depend on. At last, he found a pitchfork behind the stairs leading to the loft. He…

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    time he was 30, he gained fame for his books Call of the Wild (1903) and The Sea Wolf (1904) (Leal N/A). At this point, the themes of wolves and exploring the lives of creatures in the wild were very prominent in London’s writing, so it came as no surprise that when he wrote White Fang in 1906, yet again centered around wolves (Leal N/A). However, this book was different, considered to be almost an antithesis to Call of the Wild. Whereas Call of the Wild explored the story of a domesticated dog…

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    When Annie was about eight years old, her family moved from Edgerton Avenue to Richland Lane —not far, to the other side of Frick Park. Annie describes that the family, “expanded into a brick house on two lots,” and her parents, evidently now richer, spent a great deal of time and effort renovating their house. It was in this home, two years after they moved in that Annie’s second sister, Molly, was born. Annie explains that every August when her and Amy returned from their grandparents lake…

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    The fiction novel Call of the Wild written by Jack London, the theme is survival of the fittest. This theme is basically that an organism or group that is better suited to an animal or group that is less suited. The text states “It was a record run. Each day for fourteen days they had averaged forty miles. For three days Perrault and Francois threw chests up and down the main street of Skaguay and were deluged with invitations to drink, while the team was the constant centre of a worshipful…

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    In this year's English class we read "the call of the wild" and "the arm of the Starfish". This books showed us how different values some people have. They show different sides and perspectives of humanity and life. The ideas of Jack London and Madeline L'Engle lead us to see humanity in a different way; Both have different perspectives of such subject, but the ideas lead you to consider if one's life is worth living. By reading "The Call of the Wild" by London, I got to see London's values.…

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    Taking on a mission Have you ever had to take on a mission? In the stories Barrio Boy, The Other Side of the Sky, and Call Of The Wild, the role models are Ernesto Galarza, Farah Ahmedi, and Buck. They all had to take on a mission. In their own ways they all had difficult tasks to undertake. In Barrio Boy, Ernesto Galarza was learning how to speak English. It was difficult for him because he came from Mexico only knowing how to speak Spanish. He had private lessons with his teacher. He…

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    In Jack London's book, The Call of the Wild there are many themes that focus on life and experiences that Buck has. There are deaths of many dogs and good things that happen to Buck. He experiences real life problems. The book is expresses realism more than naturalism. Buck and Spitz fight throughout the book until Spitz dies at the end. In The Call of the Wild, Jack London says, "Spitz struggled madly to keep up. He saw the silent circle, with gleaming eyes, lolling tongue, and silvery…

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    references to murder, adultery, and incest. For example, people would believe that “The Invisible Man” and “Call of the Wild” should be banned because of blood and inappropriate actions for teens. I believe that “The Call of the WIld” should not be banned because it teaches the wrong of abuse, shows an opinion or experience, and it is a classic piece of literature. “The Call of the Wild” shouldn’t be banned because it teaches us the wrong of abuse, For example, it describes what it was like…

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