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    what makes someone a better person, well the story, The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a great story that demonstrates how making one a better person can change someone's life. A way that The Call of the Wild makes one a better person is how in the story, Buck considers the team and not just himself. In the story, Buck and his team were attacked by a huskie pack, but they all fought back and the huskies went away. In The Call of the Wild, London states, “Buck was beset by the three huskies,

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    My favorite book we read was The Call of the Wild it. The Call of the Wild was a great book over The Klondike. It had awesome stories and a great setting. Lots of people do not like The Call of the wild because it has many death's and casualties, and many people love it for its great tales and mysteries that it brings to life. Call of the Wild is a thrilling story over the Gold Klondike there where many mysteries on just one goldmine. John Thornton is one of the main characters trying to find this

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    The Call of the Wild by Jack London is a book based on the life of Buck the St. Bernard. Buck’s life starts off by living in the nice, civilized area of California to getting stolen and moving up North as a sled-dog. Buck’s life in this book is based on the theory of survival of the fittest, or natural selection. Natural selection is a theory from Charles Darwin meaning life forms have to adapt to certain climates, ways to obtain food, reproduce, and etc in order to live. Buck’s way of living is

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         The Call of the Wild      The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is a classic piece of American literature. The novel follows the life of a dog named Buck as his world changes and in turn forces him to become an entirely new dog. Cruel circumstances require Buck to lose his carefree attitude and somewhat peaceful outlook on life. Love then enters his life and causes him to see life through new eyes. In the end, however, he must choose between

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    story, repeated many times, over and over again. The book we’ll be looking at is The Call of the Wild by Jack London. When Buck gets dognapped, he experiences what life in the wild is like. Eventually, he becomes one with the wolves. The struggle for mastery is a tiring battle that doesn’t guarantee victory. However, In the story The Call of the Wild, Buck was clearly up to the task, as he became the master of the wild at the end of the novel. Let’s talk about Buck’s first feeling of true mastery. When

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    counties all over, the book The Call of the Wild is being banned from 8th grade curriculum. For reasons such as that the book is based on true events, that the book describes actions of animal abuse that still occur today, and that banning books causes illiteracy and it caused by illiteracy, I do not believe that The Call of the Wild should be taken out of 8th grade curriculum. As mentioned, The Call of the Wild is about events that actually happened. The Call of the Wild is about a gold rush. That gold

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    Having sold millions of copies and being printed in over 40 different languages, The Call of the Wild, written by American author, Jack London, and published in 1903, is a novel of “savage realism” that has entertained countless readers around the world. The Call of the Wild was even made into a film production in 1935. In this novel, naturalism plays a crucial role in the development and maturation of the main character. Naturalism is the belief the actions of beings are a direct result of their

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    In his explicit novel Call of the Wild, Jack London explains with great detail how the theme of the book rotates about violence in the lush valley of The Yukon in order to survive the harsh climate due to the many predators and struggle for leadership. Violence is introduced to Buck since the beginning when he is stolen from his owner and sold to the man in the red sweater, who tries to break him by using his club.Though he didn’t succeed, he managed to beat Buck into submission. From there he is

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    Everybody has a challenge in their life where they need a lot of perseverance. In The Call of the Wild, Buck is forced out of his old life and thrown into the wilderness where he needs to learn how to survive. In contrast to Buck, like most adults, my dad went through a parent's death which needed perseverance and had to figure out how to live on his own. While Buck and my dad’s experiences are different, they both had to learn how to live on their own. Those are just somethings that show how everyone

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    The Call of Loyalty The Call of the Wild is a very inspirational story and there are a lot of lessons to learn. In the novel, there are lots of themes that are shown throughout the story, such as survival of the fittest, the power of instinct, power, companionship, the joy of labor, and most importantly, loyalty. Loyalty is what seems to be the most valuable and most important concept to Jack London. Loyalty is very important to the author, Jack London, because loyalty is what helped London find

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