Call Of The Wild Research Paper

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Buck and my dad went through some tough things and they both persevered the same. Buck had to learn how to lead a sled team and he had to get through a lot of hard things. My dad had to learn how to lead a baseball team and he had to fight for his team. Even though Buck is a dog and my dad is a human they both learned how to lead a team and they had to fight for it. Even though we are humans we have struggles and many other life forms have to persevere through tough things in life, just keep living life to the fullest and get through tough times the future is a bright place, get to it.

Buck, the main character in the Call of the Wild, had to go through many tough times as the lead dog and just a dog on the sled team. The first example, is that he got beat by the man in the red sweater. At the very beginning Buck got taken in
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When Buck wouldn’t do what the man in the red sweater wanted the man would hit Buck in all parts of the body and Buck was badly wounded and Buck also had to learn the law of the club and man. While Buck was with the man in the red sweater Buck had to adapt to the cold snow weather of Canada. The second example of how Buck had to persevere is, he got sold to many owners. He was took out of the house for what he thought was a walk, but Manuel took him to get sold to the man in the red sweater. When he was sold by the man in the red sweater he was shipped to Canada through boat. After he lived with the man in the red sweater and learned the law of the club and the man he gets sold to Francois and Perrault. When Perrault

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