"Call of the Wild" Book Review By: Sheldon Shepard What if you were torn away from your home‚ your life‚ your family‚ and everything that was ever familiar to you‚ and got thrown into harsh‚ life threatening situations? Would you adapt in order to live and survive or would you be totally enveloped in the chaos and just give up‚ and become a name unmentioned? In Jack London’s book "Call of the Wild"‚ we are taught that anyone or thing can be taken from its surroundings and hurled into a world
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A big theme in Jack London’s book “The Call of the Wild” is that Buck needs to find his true self and finish his quest. At the beginning‚ Buck learns that he has to fight for his survival to find his true self and to start his quest. First‚ Buck learns the “Law of Club” by surviving the beating being given him by the man in the red sweater. For example‚ the man in the red sweater won’t stop beating Buck until Buck gives up attacking him. Buck bleeds and becomes unconscious. Since Buck gives up fighting
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Making changes is hard and requires a lot of perseverance. In The Call of the Wild‚ Buck is taken from his calm‚ restful‚ and quiet life and is forced to make many strenuous changes. In contrast to Buck‚ my father had to make many alters to his life by moving and changing schools‚ but he had a lot of support along the way. Like my father Buck was put into a rough time‚ they both had to face many challenges and struggles in order to persevere. Overall‚ everyone‚ even animals‚ have to persevere through
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1)Veggian‚ Henry. "The Call of the Wild." The Call of the Wild. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 07 May 20130 -The Call of the Wild drew immediate critical attention from popular journalists. -Londons presence proliferated in the 1960’s‚ and 1960 was a watershed year for The Call of the Wild as many of Londons works were reprinted. 2)"Call of the Wild Critical Review" StudyMode.com. 10 2010. 10 2010 . -the story becomes so in-depth it is tedious‚ causing readers to lose concentration and possibly even interest
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In‚ The Call of the Wild‚ there are many themes that the author‚ Jack London‚ mentioned. One of these themes was loyalty. Jack London focuses on all aspects of loyalty‚ ranging from the positive effects‚ to even the negative ones too. He uses the main character‚ Buck‚ as an example of these effects. In the story‚ Buck gains true loyalty to John Thornton‚ one of his owners. Loyalty also keeps Buck’s inner wolf at bay. Lastly‚ because Buck’s loyalty to is so strong‚ it is dangerous. Of course‚
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The Call of the Wild written by Jack London is a fiction book. The point of view is third person limited‚ and we have the point of view of Buck a dog who “broke the mold”. The third person helps tell the story by telling some things about other people or things in the story. The setting takes place in the Klondike gold rush in Alaska in about 1896. The protagonist of the story is Buck‚ and one of the major antagonists is Spitz. Spitz is one of the dogs who helped turn Buck into what he was meant
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Doing things on your own and doing something to make others happy takes a lot of perseverance. In The Call of the Wild Buck starts off just a normal dog‚ but‚ he perseveres into a tough‚ independent dog who can stick up for himself. That can relate to my mom’s situation. My mom had to go back to her sophomore year in college when her dad was sick in the hospital with cancer. She had to learn to be okay and deal with it on her own. She needed to be strong for her family. Buck and my mom started off
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book “Call of the Wild” by Jack London. In this novel‚ narrated by a St. Bernard and a Scotch Shepard mix by the name of Buck‚ Buck has just been “recruited” to work as a sled dog pulling the sled. There are two specific dogs by the names of Dave and Sol-leks. They work alongside Buck‚ however they are most experienced. Whenever someone in the group falters‚ they punish them. “Once…when he [Buck] got tangled in the traces and delayed the start‚ not Dave and Sol-leks flew at him” (The Call of the
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In the book The call of the wild‚ by Jack London‚ a dog learns the cruelty and the freedom of the wild as he becomes a tough sled dog. This nonfiction book focused on Buck‚ a dog who was taken from his home in Southern California and sent to become a sled dog in the Klondike. Buck becomes a strong sled dog and is taken in by many dog sled owners‚ where he experiences the cruelty of man and the wild. When John Thornton‚ one of his owners‚ is killed by the Yeehat Indians he avenges him by killing several
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perseverance. In Call of the Wild Buck has to persevere through tough times after he was taken away and shown his place in the wild. In contrast some people choose to join the army. In the army there is a place called ranger school. That is a very tough thing to do and persevere through mental and physical barriers. While my dad and Buck both endured pain and suffering they both got through it. Perseverance is a thing that everyone will have to do at some point in their life In Call of the Wild‚ Buck has
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