Hard And Perseverance In The Call Of The Wild

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Working hard for what you believe in can be hard to persevere through. In the story The Call of the Wild, Buck was forced to change his lifestyles from place to place, while having a lack of food and other dogs picking on him. In contrast, my dad had to preserve when he played high school basketball because he was short and frail. My father and Buck were similar because they both had to work hard to be the lead person or dog on the team, but my father's struggles where no at serious as Buck’s. Overall, everyone has to work hard to do what they dream of like playing basketball, or roaming free in the Yukon Territory. Perseverance is what it takes to get past every turn on the trail. In The Call of the Wild, Buck was put into different lifestyles from civilizations to civilizations, with a lack of food, and dogs picking on him. Buck moved from place to place which led him to learning about …show more content…

My dad was too small and weak, wasn't as athletic as other kids, and his skill level was average. My dad couldn’t drive into bigger players because he would get pushed around and pushed off balance. Another one of my dad's challenges were that he wasn't as athletic as the kids on the floor, so he couldn’t run as fast as everybody, or jump as high as the other guards on the team. Being a guard, he had to break presses so when he would change direction, the defense could stay right with him because he was changing directions slowly. My dad's most substantial struggle when playing basketball was that his skill level was just average. My father had to do the little things the best on the team in order for him to have playing time. My dad had to persevere throughout his high school freshman and sophomore year on the basketball floor. He worked hard to become a better player which in order to do that he had to be better at these

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