Call Of The Wild: A Good Life Lesson

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Call of the Wild The Alaskan forests can be harsh. That is where the book Call of the Wild takes place. Call of the Wild would be a good book to try out because of a nice challenge in the writing, good life lessons being taught, and it also had relatable characters. Some people may argue that the plot is too simple, with too difficult phrasing, maybe how there are too many lessons, and not enough entertainment, and too many characters, but not all readers may think that. Call of the Wild is definitely a good book to read.
In Call of the Wild, there are many life lessons. There are some about how things can turn very quickly, where you are and where you should be may not always be where you were born and raised. In the story, the dog named Buck lived in the south with a nice family, and it was a nice life. But, then a servant smuggled him out, sold him to a few people, who brought it to their boss, who sold him to dog sled people. Then, he had to learn to adjust to the Alaskan weather and
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That is because of the author used more old- fashioned words and grammar, so that contributes to making it more of a challenging book. This could be great for a reader who would like to challenge himself or herself. One example of from the text that shows this is Chapter 2, page 32, “Thus, as a token of what a puppet thing life is, the ancient song surged through him and he came into his own again; and he came because men had found a yellow metal in the North, and because Manuel (the man who smuggled Buck from his home) was a gardener’s helper whose wages did not lap over the needs of his wife and divers small copies of himself.” There are some phrases and words in there that make that sentence or paragraph pretty complicated. For example, they use the word “Thus” instead of maybe nowadays people would say “so” instead. That is one of the many examples of how this is shown in the

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