Call Of The Wild Research Paper

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Changing your everyday life can sometimes require you to learn new things and develop new abilities that may or may not be difficult. In The Call of The Wild, by Jack London, Buck is taken to the Yukon Territory (in Canada) where he must learn to develop new skills and learn to live in his new life and environment. However, my father did not have to develop to his environment, he had to adapt to new life struggles and substantial changes. While both my father and Buck had to adjust to vastly different changes, they both had to learn and grow new attributes. Buck and my father both had to learn new skills, like most animals and people will in their lifetimes, in order to persevere through the hardest challenges of their lives. In The Call of …show more content…

In both of their lives, skills either had to be learned or improved. Both, Buck and my father, had to complete a number of arduous tasks. Most of the difficult work they completed was physical, but mental tasks also kept both of them busy. In The Call of The Wild, Buck had to move a sled that was frozen into place with one thousand pounds of weight set on top of it (he had to move this sled one hundred yards without stopping for any reason). With the encouragement of John Thornton, Buck’s final owner, he successfully finished the laborious task. John Thornton also had his life saved by Buck several times, each time Buck risked his own. Over the short time Buck had lived with his kind and loving owner, John Thornton, he learned to balance aspects of his life. Important skills that made a huge career difference also had to be learned. For example, my dad had to overcome his mild fear of heights, similar to how Buck had to learn to show others he is in charge. They both also learned that the body can do more than expected by most, especially when it comes to what one’s mind says (which is one thing my father said that really kept him moving forward). After a while in their new life, the two of them became more dedicated to themselves and focused in their newly found professions. They met other people, and/or dogs, that they would find to be life long friends. But other new people/dogs would become enemies, or

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